[inaudible conversation] thank you all for being so patient. Im Bradley Graham in behalf of the entire staff think you were coming out on this afternoon. A few quick notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phone or things that might go beep. When we get to the q a part of the session, because we are recording this for Youtube Channel and cspan book tv, we appreciate that if you have a question you could step up to the microphone here so it can be recorded and heard by everybody else in the audience. At the end, normally for those of you who have been to our events, we like to ask you to fold up your chairs. Dont do that today because we have another event coming up. Its not often that we have a head of state here at politics and prose. In fact its pretty rare at the moment. She is on her way with an escort so she should be here shortly and we thought we should just get underway. It was just over a decade ago when she became the first woman in modern african history to be
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Discussion. When someone views themselves as a convict, if society views somebody as a convict, that isolates and minimizes their role and ability to participate productively in our community. Identifying yourself or somebody else as a returning citizen is intended to remove that label to fully embrace them as a person first who has a criminal whoory, rather than someone is a criminal history, and that is all they could potentially be. Acknowledging that these are individuals who we want to come back and that we want to embrace and for them to help improve and rebuild their lives is at the heart of everything that is the focus of our work. It is not a matter of providing what we think sounds nice and what might be meaningful to us. Its a matter of what is going to really help make successful change possible for that person. Host we move on to alex in rockville, maryland. Youre on the air. Guest good morning. I wanted to make a point. Ive seen a lot in the news with like lives matter an
That is going to take some time. The scope of that effort will depend on how many waivers are requested. But where waivers are requested i am quite confident that kind of work will be demanded. It is being done in a haphazard way that is not necessarily rigorous and objective. I think some of this has been done internally. I do not think that will be found to be acceptable. There will be a much more impartial and objective approach that says, that is looking at this issue. If the waivers are perceived on a large scale. Thank you. We are about to take a 10 minute rate but before we do, join me in thanking our guest. Beautification to my mind is far more than a matter of cosmetics. Whole it describes the effort to bring the Natural World and the manmade world into harmony, to bring usefulness and delight to our whole environment. And that work only begins with trees and flowers and lands gapping. Lady birds bill was about beautifying the nation, her signature issue as first lady. She was
No. They know each other. But they made an alliance that made both of them more powerful. To see that Sandra Day Oconnor said and to pave the way and then ginsberg is so unbelievably excellent in her job she would be another successful women. So i love what they did for women. That was a model for women in the future more than any you could alone. With to resolve the cases are very interesting. And by june we will have a lot of Supreme Court decisions and i wanted by readers to understand how they changed the law for women. I did all of those things in the book. Did you find a significant case. There were a couple but a portion of that violence against women act the Supreme Court said it was beyond the authority of the federal government. So its a pretty good record ana pretty good reflection of what they knew was important more them to do. For them to do. Did they grant interviews to you . I met with each of them. Oconnor said there wasnt enough material here for a book. How many page