L. A. Times covering the trials for the officers and the beating o. J. Dney king and then the simpson case. He always wrote with amazing speed and great pelicans. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was chairing an elected commission in los angeles to revise the city charter. I saw not only was he amazingly talented but a reporter of incredible integrity. He believed the Los Angeles Times was not devoting enough to reform and quit his position in protest of this. He put his very job on the line because he believed in the importance of stories. Atthen as now was a star the times, and as a result, they gave tremendous attention to charter reform. I will always believe charter reform succeeded because of what jim newton did. A few years ago, he mentioned to me he was planning on taking time off to do a biography of earl warren. I thought it was a great idea, and that i
Free enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new deal. He is the author of Free Enterprise an american history. Thearry glickman is professor of american studies in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise 2019, hecan history in has written for other books, including buying power, a history of consumer activism in america published in 2009, and a living wage American Workers and the making of Consumer Society published in 1997. Regular basis for popular publications including the washington post, though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. The Boston Review and dissent. Article, the his racist politics of the english language, is one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you for all the allndthescenes work, and the organizations that help make this possible. I am grateful. Thanks to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience today. No historian works alone. We all stand on the
Many people think we are approaching the highest percentage of unemployed its the great depression. Needore than ever, people to know that americans are working for them. In a world where is no longer safe to be within six feet of each other, Congress Needs to learn how to adapt. It is not the first time we have had to ensure the continuity of congress. With the Nuclear Threat during the cold war, the u. S. Government constructed a large bunker for congress. We would be required to meet outside of washington. This may either first time in the modern area where there is not a physical meeting location at risk, but rather elected officials themselves and others we would be in contact with. We are a subcommittee of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, which has jurisdiction over congressional organizations. Its important we look at this issue on how to govern during these sorts of times. From that perspective, while we wait for guidance on how to conduct more formal h
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