The 2017 annual meeting of the organization of american historians. Our session is called historians in court. It examines the complex roles of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first for organizing this session and, in particular, to the president for her support of our endeavor here today. Today, we will address a timely topic the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. Theres no systematic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly amicus briefs, where scholars file amicus briefs in court proceedings, has been increasing. Theres a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandeis brief in the Supreme Court case in 1908. But for our purposes, our pedigree as historians might be traced back to the brown versus board of education litigation in which the distinguished helped the naacp make the case against School Segregation. More recent
Yes absolutely. That happens, but usually it is not quite so at the point it is going to print it but it could be like i said feedback from the retailer or there is another coverage that has the same they didnt realize that we need to change. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Starting now on booktv, Laurence Tribe argues the Roberts Court is regretting constitutional law in areas such as free speech, privacy, Voting Rights and president ial power. Looks at prominent cases handled by the Supreme Court going back to Citizens United. This is about an hour. [applause] thank you very much, clare. One of the research assistance, i should say thank you all for coming here on this gorgeous day when you could be outside and enjoying the weather. I am glad something drove you all here. I am glad to be talking to you and appreciative of your being here. One of the research assistance, a terrific kid named max went home to New Hampshire in late spring and spent some time
Of my knees shaking her hand at the jerry blossom festival in the spring 1973. Cherry blossom festival in spring 1973. The first lady was taking time with every person she met. She gets up in a very special way, taking my hand and class giving it taking my hand and clasping it between hers. Her eyes met mine and we exchanged a smile. In that moment, she would make you feel as if you were the only person in the room. It was a shining that lingered after the moment. I watched her for a long time that afternoon from a distance, as she treated each person she met with that distinctly genuine grace and generosity of spirit that she had shown me. Misses nixon was never about power. The last person she seemed to concentrate on was herself. But she was very aware of the potential of a public position, and the means it contained for celebrating others, highlighting their views, making every person with whom she came in contact know they were special. If you look at pictures from her white house
Cherry blossom festival in spring 1973. The first lady was taking time with every person she met. She gets up in a very special way, taking my hand and class giving it taking my hand and clasping it between hers. Her eyes met mine and we exchanged a smile. In that moment, she would make you feel as if you were the only person in the room. It was a shining that lingered after the moment. I watched her for a long time that afternoon from a distance, as she treated each person she met with that distinctly genuine grace and generosity of spirit that she had shown me. Misses nixon was never about power. The last person she seemed to concentrate on was herself. But she was very aware of the potential of a public position, and the means it contained for celebrating others, highlighting their views, making every person with whom she came in contact know they were special. If you look at pictures from her white house years, often she nudges someone else toward the center of the photo, where she
We are going to tell a story out of school that predates 9 11. Thats getting involved with the fbi and it is a neonazi was wanted for murder in germany was hiding out at the compound in west virginia. The marshals that decided and went into the town disguised the good boys for the trip and at the same time a group of fbi agents looking quite official came into the town. They have been in former. This fbi agent kept leaving his file around about the informant and mike being mike tried very hard to find a Common Ground and the agents apparently were not that interested in it and they said wait a second, we have to talk this out. They left the room and they left this file sitting on the desk and they came back and ended the fbi agent started talking about how this was an fbi operation and they had a secret inside that no one could talk about. They took it out of the water and said do you mean this guy cracks. Its just you have that on the case and you try your best to work it out mutually