Ron james provided his answer in the truman court, law and the limits of loyalty. My name is steven im so direction are of program and marketing for the kansas city public library. Welcome to this special trim and day, three days removed installment in our virtual signature event series. Our guest tonight is ron james author of the soon to be released truman court, fall in limits of loyalty. James is a graduate of Yale University and Duke University school of law. Hayes practiced in washington d. C. For the last two decades the author of two previous books, Charles Hamilton houston and the struggle to end segregation. And how war, purchase and harry truman desegregated americas military. Before we get started want to mention two things. If at any point you have questions you can drop those in the chat and well get to as many of those as we can. If you are interested in purchasing the book, and i hope you will be, you could do so what you press. Missouri. Edu, that is you press. Missour
The limits of loyalty. My name is steven im so direction are of program and marketing for the kansas city public library. Welcome to this special trim and day, three days removed installment in our virtual signature event series. Our guest tonight is ron james author of the soon to be released truman court, fall in limits of loyalty. James is a graduate of Yale University and Duke University school of law. Hayes practiced in washington d. C. For the last two decades the author of two previous books, Charles Hamilton houston and the struggle to end segregation. And how war, purchase and harry truman desegregated americas military. Before we get started want to mention two things. If at any point you have questions you can drop those in the chat and well get to as many of those as we can. If you are interested in purchasing the book, and i hope you will be, you could do so what you press. Missouri. Edu, that is you press. Missouri. Edu. If you use the code truman and 21 tonight you will
End segregation. And how war, purchase and harry truman desegregated americas military. Before we get started want to mention two things. If at any point you have questions you can drop those in the chat and well get to as many of those as we can. If you are interested in purchasing the book, and i hope you will be, you could do so what you press. Missouri. Edu, that is you press. Missouri. Edu. If you use the code truman and 21 tonight you will receive 40 off the list price. So check it out. All right, lets get started. Ron, thanks much for joining us today. Quick thanks much for having me. I want to start by asking you, when the Publisher Reach out to me about this book the truman court i was at a loss to name anyone truman appointed. So reading the book i quickly change my tune and wondered why no one has told the story before. Maybe more to the point when you discover theres a book tv written about the story . Certainly. Again its good to be with you. Having not been back to missou
New outlets took a shot at that story over the course of more than a decade. Jodi kantor is the one who finally did it and got it to press. Jodi kantor is here tonight. So its a big show tonight. Over the past few weeks, there have been increasingly detailed and frequent reports about some ethics trouble for a number of trump cabinet secretaries, including interior secretary ryan zinke. Reports have found that he charged the taxpayers to fly him on private jets to do things like give an inspirational speech to a hockey team owned by his biggest contributor and to fly him to an awesome snorkeling tour that he took in the environmevirgin islands. And he also charged taxpayers to fly him to a ski recourt asort awesome sounding steak house in alaska. Almost all were for him to attend republican political fundraisers. Hes allowed to go to political fundraisers, only if he does it on his own time and his own dime. We, the taxpayers, are not supposed to be paying for him to do it. So far the
Harassment and assault allegations against him. She broke the story in the New York Times, its become a supernova in the news. Lots of different reporters and news outlets took a shot at that story over the course of a decade. Jodi kantor is the one who got it to press. Youve seen the impact. There are been increased reports of including ryan zinky. Charged taxpayers to fly him on private jets to give inspirational speech to hockey team owned by his biggest contributor and to fly to awesome sounding snorkeling tour to the Virgin Islands before the hurricanes hit. Also charged zinke to fly to ski resort and alaska. For him to attend republican political fundraisers. Member of the cabinet, federal agency, allowed to go to political fundraisers but only on his own time and dime. We the taxpayers are not supposed to be baying for him to do that. So far the republicans shown little appetite for anything. Flagrant waste and junkets but congress hasnt shown appetite to Police Members of the T