Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall discussing his personality and skill as a storyteller and impact on their careers well hear from judges and harvard law professor and elena kagan. Im Doug Ginsburg and since nobody else seems here to do it, ill introduce our panel for this evening. This look back at Justice Thurgood marshall. To my immediate left if you have not guessed it Justice Elena kagan. Justice kagan was with Justice Marshall in what year. 87. Seems like yesterday, after having attended princeton and then oxford and then harvard for law and serviced in judge mcvaus chambers and all of our panelists served on a court. It was a good court. It was a great court. And was in the White House Council office and then Clinton Administration and then in the policy council as deputy director. Couldnt she keep a job apparently. Taught at university of Chicago Law School and then after getting tenure there moved on and settled at harvard. Not very long after that became the dean of Har
She had them. That would be to ease. Its how raided hem. Her husband augustine today when george was a 11 and mary was a single mother in her 30s raising six children. That alone i think would resonate with a lot of women in America Today and the tough time she went through raising her children. So, there was a when she was referred to by biographers from time of her passing until the time of the civil war, she came across as kind of like june cleaver, and or mary mother of chryst christ, after the civil war and realtime began to take hold in the American Literature with moby dick and tom sawyer and huck finn, he biographyers who mentioned her made her look more line joan crawford. Both got it wrong. She was neither and she was both, so i decided, plus i live in the area where she the millenbeck and ending forest and lively area of rural virginia on the northern neck, and theres a lot of just something that really washington always piqued im written five books on reagan, wrote one book
Those president s. Im mike nelson. Im the guy that you had to put up with the first panel. Fortunately, we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices that you heard from the scholars of the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center and one of the main emphases is to study the presidency in historical depths with objectivity and in other words, we are all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, and that is reacting to events on the daytoday basis as pat oliphant did in his 60plus years as a newspaper cartoonist, and whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist, and pat oliphant as well as anybody has done it is to provide the comment, and to provide opinion and provoke discussion as opposed to aspire to settle the discussion. This panel today is going to cover the president s from george bush and i dont use the h. W. , but he was
And thanks to gerrymandering, four republicans [ light laughter ] President Trumps Reelection Campaign displayed an aerial banner in houston today ahead of tonights third democratic debate, and honestly trump has got to give it a rest. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause the u. S. Patent office has announced that it denied a request from the Ohio State University to trademark the word the for use by the schools athletic department. And to really rub it in, they signed it off from the u. S. Patent office. [ laughter and applause according according to reports, members of the House Judiciary Committee have begun privately mapping out a possible list of charges against President Trump that could serve as a basis for impeachment though it might be easier to beke a list of why he shouldnt [ audience oohs [ applause ] House Speaker nancy pelosi said today that democrats are still following a strategy of, quote, legislate, investigate, litigate. Well, i hope they dont hesitate because its gett
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome my friend, ben stein, back to the program. He says president trumps tax reform plan will only benefit corporations and the rich. His latest book is titled the capitalist code. It can save your life and make you very rich. Honored to be here. So i went back to just where you were on trump a couple of years ago. You said and im cleaning this up for Public Television that trump doesnt know blank about economics but then you voted for him. He was not running as Abraham Lincoln or richard nixon. He was running against a woman who i thought was terribly corrupt and lied a lot. I have known her for a long time. She and i were in law School Together at yale and i never really liked her very much. If she had been running against somebody else i would have voted for that person. I never vote for democrats. The guy i liked was Lindsey Graham he was the best on National Defense but he didnt get the nomination