Themselves as rebels, reinventing American Culture and establishment as they perceived it. I often am wondered by the who grew up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, were the estrogen f the great ration. They fought and serve in world war ii only to see their to grow up as the counterculture. Thats one of the great imagined heir parents moving very often from cities to suburbs where they would be be the best d possible environment. The children le oved to the inner cities often in safe neighborhoods and reject the kind of comfort of their parents. And Janice Joplin saying hey, man, i want to live super hyper most. I want to do is just basically be like my parents and sit and die in front set. Television so theyre really pushing back and st the kind of safety security, comfort, theyre not that at all. Because of the suburbs that they grew up in, where there wasnt a of excitement. So theyre reacting to what they deficit in venture American Culture. 50 the assassination of the s, mlk, jfk, robert k
Display in the building. I would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the Curators Office of obtaining the portraits of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. On behalf of all the officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. We are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The moderator of the program will be professor brad snyder. He is an assistant professor of law at the university of Wisconsin Law school. He is the author of wellpaid slave. He is currently at work on the society of truth and other progressives that lived in the Dupont Circle rowhouse and formed a political salon in the 1910s. He has written extensive articles about justice holmes. Tonights analysts are James Mcpherson and g. Edward white. James mcpherson is the George Henry Davis Professor Emeritus of United State
Welcome to the Supreme Court. It is great to see so many people here for the Supreme Court historical societys second lecture of the 2014 government lecture series. The society was formed in 1974 by chief Justice Warren burger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. It does that in many ways through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the building. I would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the Curators Office of obtaining the portraits of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. On behalf of all the officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. We are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The moderator o
Fellow soldiers and with the public to gain justice and the victims he fought so hard for and with everyone he came in contact with. And he did it by just smiling, listening, and showing genuine compassion to all. He cared deeply for his fellow human beings and always treated everyone with dignity and respect. Beau bidens character was genuine. He had a natural charisma that few people possess. People willingly wanted to follow him, completely trusted his judgment and believed in him. Frankly, he was selfless to a fault, always supporting his personal needs to the welfare of everyone else to the soldiers in his unit and everyone around him. He was incredibly proud to serve in the Delaware National guard and he would tell me over and over and over again as we had many discussions, sir, im just another soldier, doing my best and my job to accomplish the mission. He was committed to his community, to his home state, and to a nation. Frankly a nation that i believe one day beau biden would
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