Im eugene meyer, president of this aside im delighted to walking of the 15th annual memorial lecture. This lecture darted as many of you shortly after 9 11 [inaudible] this lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11 can you hear better . Sorry . [applause] ted olson inaugural lecture reminded of what a means to be an american and how our legal tradition is a critical part of our identity as americans. That reminder remind is perhape crucial today. Both ted who is here today and barbara understood this connection. We want the series to remind lawyers of it so they foster legal principles that advance individual liberty and personal responsibility and the rule of law. Others lecturers have included Justice Scalia, chief justice roberts, ice president cheney, judges ken starr, robert bork, ray randall, edith jones, doug ginsburg, jeff sutton and then judge not justice neil gorsuch, also included former attorney general michael mr. Casey, from white as counsel don mcgahn, john
It is the most popular morning table new show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days, is that right brian . You might also know brian from his radio show which the brain kill me show which is on 150 radio stations across the country and tuckers magazine named him the ten most important talk radio host in america. And get this, between tv and radio brian is on the airway six hours a day five days a week. And yet he has found the time to write a string of New York Times bestselling books, George Washington secret six, Thomas Jefferson and the triple e pirates, Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans all told his books have reached over 2. 5 million readers around the world which is fairly impressive. [applause] these are history books, its impressive. His latest book which we are celebrating tonight is sam houston and ill move injured its another bestseller and debuted last week as number three on the New York Times bestseller list. [applause] unfortunately the li
The speaking portion is almost always e. And open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and buy your books and your stocks and greeting cards and we appreciate you keeping it local. Its about our guest will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan, so an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After the guest is done speaking there will be an opportunity to ask questions, and we will have microphones available so your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards to get it signed, we can accommodate that we just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available right when you walk in at the information desk. Tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor here at u. Of t. And he holds five senior chair in history. He is a New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on u. S. History. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write 3
Every year. The speaking portion is almost always free and open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and you buy your books and you buy your stocks and your greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan. Extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwords and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available when you walk into the store at the information desk so tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor, who holds the senior chair in history. He is New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on us history. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write
Legal order. Look at applause for a second selling this class to what we did last time. Last summer talking about federalism and particularly the balance of power between states and for cavities. People talk about federally something usually used the term to refer to the balance of power between the federal government and states, that summary talking about debates between states and a local level power. Theres more to be that the federal level and everything they were much more contentious because so much governing authority was actually located in the states a little cavities. We were talking about was in a system of Later Authority where states have control over the rights of citizens in a Public Interest but the cable local areas Discretionary Authority over a wide range of matters involving the Public Interest. Basically the states then handed over on the discretion over thats brought and you know the Public Interest to local areas. These jurisdictions that operated simultaneously