shannon: she was a pioneer in so many ways. you reference her time out west and where she was from and it was such an interesting back drop to see her become the first female appointed to the supreme court. she often told the story about graduating from stanford and not being able to get a job. no law firm would hire her as a woman in the 50s and 60s. she struggled to make it in the legal profession. to think she came out of school, she found a roadblock to any kind of legal career and she decided to plow forward and ends up on the supreme court. it is a really fascinating, truly american story. she went out and campaigned to become a judge because she saw this is my avenue. she didn t win the first election. she did ultimately end up becoming a judge but another part of her interesting background is she was a lawmaker in arizona in the state senate. so she had a real appreciation for all of the different branches, for fighting her way into the legal profession. she had a h
personalities, most of them. and here s what they said. they said should be go to billy green. billy green was clean. they said don t mess with him, he s a boy scout. well, they didn t see that about the other guys. they said go see ozzie meyers, go see the mayor, they knew who to pass the money around to. and they did look, they seemed to be careful at who they picked. they picked members who they thought would be susceptible. yeah. to this for some reason or the other. that s entrapment if you think the guy does this for a living. maybe but if you didn t have evidence i can tell you this, i spoke to the u.s. attorney at the time who felt concerned on a couple of things. number one he felt that weinberg was coaching the members of congress. this was a hoot. he said weinberg and he said they caught him on tape doing this, would tell the members as he was bringing in the members of congress, he would be coaching them on how to what was going to happen in there. hey, he s
and here s what they said. they said should be go to billy green. billy green was clean. they said don t mess with him, he s a boy scout. well, they didn t see that about the other guys. they said go see ozzie meyers, go see the mayor, they knew who to pass the money around to. and they did look, they seemed to be careful at who they picked. they picked members who they thought would be susceptible. yeah. to this for some reason or the other. that s entrapment if you think the guy does this for a living. maybe but if you didn t have evidence i can tell you this, i spoke to the u.s. attorney at the time who felt concerned on a couple of things. number one he felt that weinberg was coaching the members of congress. this was a hoot. he said weinberg and he said they caught him on tape doing this, would tell the members as he was bringing in the members of congress, he would be coaching them on how to what was going to happen in there. hey, he s looking for some help. i jus
you hear the bugles blowing? can you hear the loud bursts of trumpets, the threatening blasts at the president if he dare not rattle the saber at moscow? they are the same buglers who sent our troops dashing off to the disaster in iraq, who wanted us in libya. well, this time the same voices of the crochetty grown of the cold war. wouldn t bit far better if we first got straight what the united states, this country wants to happen? what we clearly don t want, dare i speak for most americans, is a louder, bigger fight between kiev and moscow. we want a much smaller one. and could bit that the best way for that to happen is the bugle boys, already ready to blow charge to cool it. and see if we have any influence in the situation there and then carefully and deliberately assert it. my biggest worry is that we will do no good when our primary, goal, especially this moment should be finding a way to do no harm. the ambassador to ukraine and howard fineman is the editorial director