Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Next, we tour some of the oldest rooms in the u. S. Capitol with senator mitch mcconnell. We hear about the Historic Events that occurred in what is now the Republican Leaders suite, the very rooms that, early in the 19th century, hosted the u. S. House of representatives, the u. S. Senate and the library of congress. Senator mcconnell recalls his own political career and the historic moments in which he participated. We are in the United States capitol in the senate wing and about to be given a tour of the Senate Majority Leaders Office by the majority leader himself. Thank you, senator mcconnell. Where are we in the capitol right now . We are actually not in the senate wing which is just further down. Were in the main capitol, the government came down from philadelphia in the summer of 1800 and the capitol looked quite different at that point. The two wings were added right before
Republican leaders Conference Room and his private office, and he recalls his own political career and the historic moments in which he participated. We are in the United States capitol in the senate wing and about to be given a tour of the Senate Majority Leaders Office by the majority leader himself. Thank you, senator mcconnell. For your graciousness in opening up to this week. Where are we in the capitol right now . We are actually not in the senate wing which is just further down. Were in the main capitol, the government came down from philadelphia in the summer of 1800 and the capitol looked quite different at that point. The two wings were added right before the civil war during the 1850s. But this particular space, like every space in the capitol, has its own history. And we do know that during that general period, they began to develop what subsequently came known as the library of congress in this particular space. Its been the office of the republican leader of the senate, w
Articles that were of no use to me. A lot of them were long reviews that would take a particular dissent and parse it which is something that i did as a law school student, had no desire to do again. Been there were a lot of Political Science articles that were worse than useless because unfortunately Political Science these days is more interested in counting them in analyzing. You would get articles like why are more dissent written on tuesday that on thursday . What i wanted to explore was what role does the dissent itself play, other than for the person who wrote it said i dont agree with you . The answer i came up with, which is sort of buried in the subtitle of the book, is the notion of a constitutional dialogue. Most dissents are justly forgotten as soon as theyre written, as our im afraid to say majority of all cases. Some of them ring on. You have to deal with them. Not just the judges sitting out but the future. A good example of this is hugo blacks dissent in brady where he
Similarly, i was a professional woman in the 70s and part of the movement to try to get the president to try to appoint more women to the federal courts at all much less the Supreme Court. So when Sandra Day Oconnor was appointed to the Supreme Court it meant the world to me. I was so hoping it would happen just like she said. She said it is okay to be the first. But i do not want to be the last. And i was watching her because i was so many first. And i didnt want to have her fail. I wanted to be the next one. Two; they were really my offensive lines. Host when will we see a woman chief justice . Guest there was talk of making oconnor chief justice. She would have been great. She was so fair and widely respected. John robert is a young man so i want to say in probably 40 years. Host next call is jay in toledo, ohio. We are listening and you are on with Linda Hirshman. We are talki about the Supreme Court. Caller thank you. Linda, you have such a wonderful sense of humor. It is so great
The moment of time and david did a fantastic job. Where is david . David did a fantastic job and all of my people to a great job they helped me so much. We are doing a couple of other things right now. Its not easy. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. I would like to thank everyone here for coming out to politics and prose. As we embark on another wonderful reading. I would like to take care of some quick housekeeping first. Again please silence your cell phones at this time and we have cspan with us this afternoon so when you ask your questions please run up to our audience mic and form a look line. Lastly this is not the last event for today so while we usually would ask you to fold up your chairs david assets you leave your chairs where they are for next event. My name is Christopher Banks and i welcome you to politics and prose on behalf of the coowners of politics and prose and on behalf of our staff. We do over 500 events a year in additio