If i get paid, then i have to do what the first lady is supposed to do, but you can do anything you want to do and its such a great soap box. Its just such a great opportunity. So i would, i would advise any first lady to do what she wanted to do. If she doesnt want, and another thing i learned, youre going to be criticized no matter what you do. I could have stayed in the white house, poured tea, had receptions and i would have been criticized. As much i was criticized outside. For what i did and i got a lot of criticism, but you learn to live with it, as i said earlier. Just live with it, expect it and you live with it and never let it influence me. Rosalynn carter in a recent interview conducted for this series in atlanta. She was her husbands political partner from their first campaign. As first lady, she attended cabinet meetings and championed womens rights and Mental Health issues. Their partnership in congress has continued in their long, close white house years. Good evening.
Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the responsibility of the organization as well, to examine the intersection of race and policy not just because we are an organization deeply committed to the public good but also because we are an organization based in washington dc, the nations capital. As much as washington is a city of politics it is also a city of great diversity, of the roughly 700,000 residents the call the city home, one need only wa
Presidency over the past 3 and a half years. He is making it very partisan, he came out a few hours ago talking about the democratic mayors not doing enough and how important the National Guard is and i think hes making it a partisan issue where i think in the past a president reach out and try to be compassionate and to bring people together instead of divide them, so i think thats thats been something we have seen with both the pandemic and with the recent protests. How did your book come about . Whats the genesis of it . I had seen a couple of books about the white house. Ive always been fascinated on what happened behind the scenes on Inauguration Day. Thats a dramatic day in our history when one family moves in and another family looks out and the public is looking at is west front of the capital, the swearingin ceremony that we all we all watch, but really behind the scenes theres control chaos at the white house and then the last inauguration i was just fascinated by the obamas
Guest i think it isnt all that different from the way weve seen him view the presidency of the last three and a half years. He is making it very partisan. He came out a few hours ago talking about the democratic mayor isnt doing enough, and how important the National Guard is. I think hes making it a partisan issue where in the past a president would reach out and be compassionate and bring people together instead of divide them. So i think that is something we have seen in both the pandemic and the recent protests. Host how did your book, about, what is the genesis of it . Guest id written a book called the residence and a couple other books about the white house, and ive always been fascinated by what happens behind the scenes on Inauguration Day. To me that is such a dramatic day when one new family moves in and another moves out. The public is looking at the front of the capitol. As you know, the swearingin ceremony that we all watch, but really behind the scenes theres controlled
Institutional scholars with regard to president ial powers and the author of the equally excellent previous book with those constitution of the original executive the professor of law at harvard as you are aware during the high profile extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during the key early. In the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the presidency and venues like the atlantic and the terror presidency. His latest book out also highly recommended is in half the shadow also the subject for one of the last inperson Public Events we had at cato before the lockdown. Thank you for coming back so soon even if virtually. I am also a great admirer of your previous book but if you will forgive me for saying so its one of the most misleadingly titled books in recent memory. It makes the case the original design the framers had for the presidency, that office had very little in the way of Emergency Powers and no rightful claim t