Up next a confirmation hearing for u. S. Postal service governors and other judicial nominations to the d. C. Superior court. During this meeting members of the committee asked nominees questions concerning the health and safety of postal workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. This morning we will consider two nominees for the governor of the United States Postal Service, don lee moke and william zolers. Well consider three nominees for the judicial system to be associate judges in the superior court of d. C. We do have brief introduction of each. Donald lee moke served as president of the Airline Pilots association and captain with Delta Airlines for 31 years. He also served as an officer in the United States marine corp. Thank you so much for that service. William zolers serves red stone llc, hes the chairman and ceo of yrc until 2011, prior to that served in Senior Leadership positions with rider incorporated and Eastman Kodak company. Mark robins serves in office of general counsel
In vietnam. And earned a masters degree in history from George Washington university in 1971. He currently lives in middleburg, virginia. And is a member of the library of Virginia Foundation board. He has been a former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in washington, d. C. He has written for Many National newspapers and magazines, among many others, the smithsonian, the washington post, the New York Times, baltimore sun, chicago tribune, and the Christian Science monitor and usa today. He is the author of five books, including the one that hell be speaking on today, including, saving monticello, published by the free press in 2001. A book that received excellent reviews and offered the First Complete postjefferson history of this american icon. The book reveals an amazing story how one jewish family saved monticello for posterity and used the house as a family home for 89 years, which is longer than the tenure of the jeffersons at monticello. Mr. Leepsons newest book is flag an
Do you think that the boycott was necessary . To that ruling. Iesha . I think it was, because i think the boycott, while it wasnt an illegal action or might not have produced, you know, like might have not taken down separate versus equal, i think it definitely changed peoples perceptions of what was happening with separate versus equal. And i mean, a media campaign, it reverberated throughout the country. So i think you change peoples hearts and you change peoples minds. And i mean, maybe that is playing into the myth, but you definitely had allyship grow, probably in the north, which is probably what people down, like boycotting needed, or, yeah. Kind of to that extent, like you talked about how there were previous cases that had been, like, lost in courts about buses and desegregated, so i think the boycott was necessary again to help with the media push to finalize, like you said, like nail on the coffin, just because in the past there had been a couple failures. All right, yeah. A
What people now refer to as the liberal consensus, the 1940s and 1950s, and trying to work through what actually is happening in terms of the kind of main thoroughfare of american politics, the possibilities for Political Action and the way that people are thinking about politics in america in the 40s and 50s. You also had three readings, all of which in different ways deal with the kind of idea of political ideology and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ideas matter to politics. So, well sort of be thinking today about how they kind of frame those ideas, and this is a kind of transition class where we move from kind of discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into discussioning sort of what else is happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. So, shall we start with daniel bell . Everybodys favorite reading from today . I assume there were very few questions about this one . Yeah. So, is he essentially saying th that, like the political ide
Award. Also with u. S. Today is detective brian downy, the president of the Gay Officers Action League goal of new york which is addressing the needs and issues and concerns of the Lgbt Community. Also on hand with us today is lieutenant brett parson, district native. How many years on the force . Almost 26. 26 years. And he manages, you should know, the departments lesbian gay, bisexual transgender liaison unit here in d. C. And mr. Prescott, a journalist, novelist, screen writer as well and columnist for salon. So thank you all for taking part in this today. Im looking forward to learning a lot and looking back with you through your eyes and perspectives on where we were 50 years ago. Its kind of hard to believe. David, i would like to start with you, if we can. What was new york like . What was america like, for gay, lesbians, transgender citizens before the stonewall riots . What was it like for the Lgbt Community . Well, its really counterintuitive because theres a common tendency