Reagan nominated Sandra Day Oconnor to be the first woman to serve on the u. S. Supreme court. Next on American History tv, a discussion with author evan thomas and one of Justice Oconnors sons on the qualification ands characteristics that led to her appointment. Good afternoon. For those ive not had a chance to meet, my name is john. I have the honor of being executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming out this afternoon. If you would, in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for chwhicht stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. In the fall of 1988, when president Ronald Reagan broke ground at the site of his future president ial library, im not sure that he could have imagined that
It is an honor for me to join all of the distinguished lawyers in this room. Thank you for that introduction. I am the 85th attorney general. [laughter] attorney general barr chinese has come in handy because i find that when you read congressional enactments from right to left, they make a lot more sense. [laughter] [applause] attorney general barr it is an here this evening. And to deliver the 19th annual Barbara K Olson memorial lecture. I here this evening. Have had the privilege of being friends with ted since we first met in the reagan administration. Ted was head of the of his of legal counsel. Of the office of legal counsel. I miss barbaras in bullions d barbaras ebullience. I was trying to figure out what would be an appropriate speech to give here at the Federalist Society. I was having difficulty. I thought the notre dame speech had done so well. I was just going to deliver it again. [applause] but,ney general barr recognizing that this years annual convention is a ritualism
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[applause] thank you for joining us. I am going to leave the hardcore legal questions to my colleague, so i start with the news as a journalist. I think a lot of us are still trying to get our heads around the ideas that are right, that existed for 50 years, can evaporate. I wonder if you would just start off by taking us inside the deliberations around the Dobbs Decision and particularly how you tried to persuade your fellow justices to maybe take a different course. It does not mean you do not feel the emotion and all of them. What judge wisdom told me years ago, he was one of the circuit, you ought to read about their story. My god, they really segregated the south. Wisdom, it was he was a great judge. He said, were you angry when you are angry at the majority, here is what you do. You write an opinion and say how awful they are. Really just no holds barred. When you finish that, you read it and you throw it in the wastebasket. Once again, you write your dissent. You see where this