An extra blade but fatalistically and we see this time and time again so the us. At any moment they could get off this path in the camp of walking into the buzz saw that make conceivably but fate is drawing them to the blade you know we had Aristotle Plato socrates they understood the man right they understood what tribes us and we always tried to the buzz saw thats the way powerful people are powerful nations do it they just go straight into the buzzsaw theres no other option they can just like kindly walk off the stage you know its just goes into the but is cyclical nature of nature is one that can be dramatize stand in the case of humans they typically will be drawn to fatalistic and unnecessarily and thats what makes a tragic speaking of tragic just look at that chart this is our deficit numbers plunging here it is the deficit serves the us record it is widest budget deficit in fiscal 2020. Since the 2nd world war that was a child she was what she was a massive global tragedy at th
Thomas jeffersons correspondence and other papers be accessiblewill to scholars and the public. [applause] good evening. Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am the president of the league of women voters, sponsor of tonights Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat Geraldine Ferraro. Our panelists for tonights debate are the National Correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, normal quarrels, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. , politicalocher correspondent for abc news, is our moderator. A few words about the order of the format. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro elects to speak last so Vice President bush will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a follo
History. First, the democrats name the kennedyjohnson ticket and now in chicago, the republicans, who elected Abraham Lincoln just 100 years ago, pin their hopes on nixon and lodge. President eisenhower poses with his Vice President in chicago. The illinois metropolis had given the chief executive one of the most heartwarming receptions of his career upon his arrival to address the gop convention. [applause] thank you, ike day is the theme for the thunderous welcome. The enthusiasm spills over to the convention hall, where ike and maim the old center stage, while Convention Business waits in the wings. [applause] the partisan crowd receives an accounting of the republican administrations twoterms of stewardship. Remarks concerned the issue of whether people everywhere want to live under communism, or free system. He hurls a challenge at soviet premier nikita khrushchev. I challenge him to this. Will he agreed to the holding of free elections under the sponsorship of the United Nations,
Washington bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sandra van ocher, Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Sandy the thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of the format. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Vice president bush will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the reporters on the panel. Four a reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question, then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts, there will be the first section on domestic affairs, the second on Foreign Affairs. Manner of address was decided by the candidates. Vicefore, it will be president bush and Congress Woman for her. We begin with john. John adams, one of the nations first president s, said, today i am nothing, tomorrow i may be everything. I
The idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support. Whether it was atheists or Civil Rights Activist or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second was the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was protected individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. Lyndon b. Johnson, after 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights act, he has a sense that the Supreme Court will be significant. Unlike with kennedy, there are no openings on the court. Johnson essentially creates one. He first comes in 1965. It is a custom which dates back to the wilson administration. There was one jewish member on the court. The jewish