Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future Supreme Court justice, judge alito when he was at the u. S. Court of appeals on the third circuit. Welcome. On monday the constitution of the United States turned 225. Tonights program is one of several that the National Archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document, signed in philadelphia on september 17, 1787. Tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests to explore the past, present and future of United States constitution. Our
The courts. Good morning and welcome. I am dean reuter. It is my pleasure to welcome you here today. In the room, or watching on the live stream, or cspan. Welcome as we mark the 40th anniversary of the Federalist Society. I say the word mark purposefully. Some applause is appropriate but i am blessed interested in accolades. I am more interested in looking to the future. Indeed, my prediction as a veteran of the Federalist Society is that the Federalist Society is poised to accomplish more in the next 10 years then it has in the past 40. But, that depends on you. Not only is this organization yours, you are the organization. You are the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society is nothing more than its volunteer membership. Well, maybe the donors too. [laughter] the donors are important. We are a Nonprofit Organization and we are good at being a Nonprofit Organization. So, donors are important. The theme of this years convention is particularly topical. The current state of the legal
Can you talk a little bit about it . Guest it was the other side of the mountain. During the time my parents were working in the United States, i would look at the mountain something about my parents being on the other side. Host where did you grow up originally . Host where did you grow up . Guest the little town in mexico that no one has heard of. But when they mention it, if you mention acapulco, people know where it is. Its about three hours away from their my father came here in 1977 and december my mother a few years later. My mother came here in 1980 when i was 4. 5 years old. Host when did you come to the United States. Guest i came in 1985, in the month of may of 1985, i was nine and a half years old. Host what can you tell us about coming to the United States . Guest i have been separated from my father for about eight years. When he was sent to mexico in 1985, my family convinced him to come back here. To take us to the United States, we beg him to bring us here. We didnt wa
Those in with all of these other sources. Host david, thank you very much. I urge everyone to read the book and, later, you can look at the context in those transcripts of these tape recording as they come out over the next year. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. On affirmative action in the prelim to the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument in fisher be the university of texas. The authors report the agree with the National Goals of affirmative action but now agree the system hurts more than helps minorities. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to roger and cato for hosting this event. Im thankful to have such a good kick off to the book, which is actually being officially published today. As roger mentioned i am going to start and talk a little bit about the mismatch idea itself and some of what we have done in the book. Stewart is going to try to relate this Martin Fisher and what will be happening tomorrow. I a
To the extent he was pretty ingenious about it thats one for the books. Quite extraordinary. Joanna, you know james. You know the family here quite well. Does this hey, hes a smart guy. Thats all i got to say. Him and my son ran around together in high school, and my grandson and his oldest boy ran around together. Very smart guy. Very smart guy. Im not surprised at all. Im very, very proud of him. And so you should be. Paul, we understand the condition of everyone is good. Everyones health appears to be stable. No frost bite and exposure and a bit of trama for the kids. Are they, as you understand, expected to make a full and speedy recovery. I would expect they make a full recovery. Of course, im not a doctor but ive been through countless searches and im very surprised, very pleased with the outcome. Makes a great christmas story. In terms of your advice, paul, who may be exposed to similar conditions, the first bit of advice is if you can avoid going out and stay home, but if you a