Good morning, everybody. For those that arent from south side, welcome to the south side of des moines. Or as the rest of us like to call it, gods country. Part of a family when you are on the south side. On the south side are really a working class family. We are a working class family who believe if you work hard for a living, if you play by the rules, if you do whats right, you deserve dignity in your life. We are a diverse family, with italians living next to irish, living next to latinos, africanamericans, gays, straights, immigrants, natural familytizens, we are a that truly believes this diversity makes us a stronger family. [applause] we are a family that looks out for each other. We may not get along all of the time, but by god we will make sure our neighbors are cared for and looked out for. We may fight a little bit, but, by god, if you come after us, we are coming after you enforce. [applause] because we believe that if you take on one of us, you are taking on all of us. So
Me if i fixed my tie. Every once in a while, a judge, keep it this way. Who was quite senior, would call me and say, we are going for lunch. All right. David i dont consider myself a it was the biggest liquor journalist. Distributor in the d. C. Area. [laughter] jus. Ginsberg before we went to nobody else would consider myself a journalist. His warehouse, we would stop at i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though the Supreme Court and pick up i have the day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody Justice Brennan and justice marshall. Tick . I knew Justice Scalia from our when you went to cornell, your court of appeals days. Grades were good. I knew Justice Clarence thomas, you applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Who was also on the d. C. Was the class half women and half men . Circuit. [laughter] sandra was as close as i came to Justice Ginsburg in those having a big sister.
That the American Financial system. Kind of in 1858 in lynchburg virginia and grew up in the reconstruction self. Is this policy on the role of government was shaped by the views of thomas jefferson. For just 70 miles north. From 1903 until the early 1940s they played a key role in every important legislative debate. Its colleagues in the house, later in the senate, both democrats and republicans, as the go to expert when it came to baking issues. Our glass was a consummate politician. He was an expert when it came to reading the political tea leaf and crafting compromises that could be passed into law. He was wheeling to empower the federal government in his judgment circumstances were warranted. Twelve roosevelt progressive, he shepherded the most important progressive new deal reforms through the senate. Turn class had assault, he can be grumpy, but mostly in private. He was not a proponent of racial equality and thats putting it mildly. And he was a democrat. That was a joke. [laug
Remote village in laos high above the clouds the people here speak their own language. Time seems almost to have stood still. We need a family that is holding fast to the old traditions while also making small steps out into the wider world. Today is a special day a photographer has come to the village. Well i go all the way with. The father how can you has wanted a family photo like this for a long time. He wants to put it in a golden frame and hang it up at home. On. His youngest son is only rarely here now hes been living on his own since he was 11 when he moved to a town in the valley to attend school. The girls of the family will probably spend their lives here on the mountain like their older brothers. The family have penned their hopes and can launch the youngest son as their best hope for a different and easier life for the younger generation. For the women of the family the day begins with starting a fire cooking and feeding the pigs. You. Yeah. Yeah yeah youre gonna look at t
I dont consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have the day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . When you went to cornell, your grades were good. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men . [laughter] those ancient days, i went to law school between 1956 and 1959. 500 of us. Over none of us were women. There were five women. , Harvard Law School, it is about 50 women. [applause] in your Harvard Law School class, you did extremely well and got onto the harvard law review and you are near the top of your class, maybe first of five in your class. When your husband needed to move to new york, you wanted to transfer to Columbia Law School and the dean of the Harvard Law School did not think that was such a great idea if you wanted to be a harvard graduate. Yes. He said i had to spend my third year at harvard. Martyason i didnt was was diagnosed with a testicular tumor in his