Well start with brian. Shes dedicated her life to supporting our nations military, veterans and families of fallen heroes. Shes inspired by the character, leadership and sacrifice of her brother, First Lieutenant travis, who made the ultimate sacrifice in iraq aprilde 29, 2007. Serving as a president of the foundation since 2012, leading a National Union focusing on veterans and families of the fallen to take the next steps in the personal journeys the next generation of leaders. 2015, she received the president s lifetime achievemeni award for volunteer service. In 2016, ryanci took an official appointment to serve on the remember and explore subcommittee and the honor subcommittee for the Advisory Committee Arlington National cemetery. Ryan also serves as a board member of the National Association of Veterans Serving Organization as well as on the Advisory Board for the global war on terror, memorial foundation. Ryan resides right here with her husband and three children, where she c
Host congratulations. Your book is a major comp which meant. It is a significant scholarly work. I think it is fair to say you moved the seal. Guest thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david. Thank you so much. Host how does it feel . Guest like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the works to make this book and so its a relief than just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and cigarettes Richard Kluger who won a Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Guest amazing. It was really a pageturner. Host allen grant the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette industry and the deception of the industry and in trepidation. When you started here had giant oaks out there and you took a risk. Guest yes but you know i really feel those three books ashes to ashes cigarette century and robber proctors whole corpus of work the biggest of which is called golden holoc
In brown vs. The board of education. In that case the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation of schools. Good evening and welcome to everybody. Im a Vice President of the Supreme Court Historical Society and delighted to see everybody here tonight in our second lecture of the leon silverman series on dissents in the Supreme Court. Were very privileged tonight to have as our host Justice Kagan. She will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. Let me just tell you a few things about Justice Kagan. You may or may not know. Born in new york, raised in new york, educated at princeton, oxford, and Harvard Law School. Then became a clerk to judge abner mikva on the d. C. Circuit followed by a clerkship with justi Justice Thurgood marshall here at the Supreme Court. Then a law practice and in 1991 entering academia teaching at the university of Chicago Law School where she met professor barack obama. Two years later invited back to washington to work for the Senate Judiciary
Prof. Harbour ok, we are ready to begin. We have two classes left this semester, today and then after thanksgiving. I want to welcome cspan and remind you, in terms of what we have been doing this semester, that, thus far, we have proceeded in a topical way of different aspects of the american presidency. In the first half of each class. In the second half of each class we have had individual case studies. This will be different because we are simply focusing on case studies. Today, we are going to talk about bill clinton and george w. Bush and time we will talk about barack obama and donald. There will be so little to talk about when it comes to donald trump, i worry about the silence. W. H bill clinton and george on the docket today, there were a few things that warranted some talking at the start. Some older folks like us to acclimate our psyches to realize that, to you all, bill clinton genuinely is a figure of history. None of you have an active recollection, or even a childhood r
Thank you, jerry, so much. As you can tell from that introduction, before coming here, i couldnt keep a job. Jerry, thank you for everything you do for the Supreme Court Historical Society and everything that the Supreme Court Historical Society does for the Supreme Court. The Historical Society does extremely important work in reminding people of the importance of our constitution and our judicial system and its history. And were deeply appreciative. This evening marks the second of the societys 2019 leon silverman lecture series, which is devoted this year to dissents and the spupreme court. On my way over here, professor driver and also jerry libin reminded me that ive written a few of those. Tonights speaker is professor justin driver, professor of law at yale law school. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law, and hes the author, most recently, of a book called the schoolhouse gate public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the american mind. That boo