Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Supreme Court. Its great to see so many people here for the Supreme Court historical societys second lecture of the 2014 leon silverman lecture series. The society was formed in 1974 by chief Justice Warren berger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. And it does that in many ways, through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the Supreme Court building. Id also like to especially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predeces r predecessor, bill suter, and the Curators Office in obtaining the port raraits of all prior 1 clerks of the court, which have now been obtained for the court. And on behalf of all the officers of the court, id like to thank the society for all of the efforts they give to all of us. This evening were joined by three distinguished scho
I find it puzzling. He did vote for lincoln in 1864. Theres no doubt about that. He didnt in 1860 because he couldnt get vote in 1860. But youre quite right that he never really expressed the kind of reverence for lincoln and admiration for lincoln and profound respect for lincolns leadership and what lincoln stood for that one might have thought that, i think, his father, Oliver Wendell holmes sr. , did. And it may have something to do with the kind of skepticism with which he emerged from the war with about so much. Of everything. But it still does puzzle me. I dont have a good answer to that question. Well, he comes out of the war, remember, with a very strong sense of what a mess the campaigns were. And the experience at potomac would have confirmed that. For long periods of Holmes Service hes wading through swamps trying to get from the virginia Northern Neck area to richmond in two different aborttive efforts to invade richmond. He sees people randomly shot. He gets randomly shot
Just two years later, the wall came down. We continue now on American History tv with our look back 25 years to the november 9th, 1989 fall of the berlin wall and the events that preceded the end of the cold war. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Chancellor kohl, governing chancellor kohl, governing mayor deacon, ladies and gentlemen, 24 years ago, president john f. Kennedy visited berlin. Speaking to the people of this city, and the world at the city hall, but since then, two other president s have come, each in his turn to berlin, and today, i myself, make my second visit to your city. [ applause ] we come to berlin, we american president s, because its our duty to speak in this place of freedom. But i must confess, were drawn here by other things as well, by the feeling of history in this city. More than 500 years older than our own nation. By the beauty of the grunwald and the teargarten, by the people, but mostly by your courage and determination. Perhaps the composer p
I think the crisis above all else is a clarion call for changing our relationship with one another and the planet earth. Why is the extinction crisis in the clarion call . Because it is loud and clear, as all clearing call clarion calls must be. For those willing to listen, it is almost deafening. With each passing there is a celestial bell that rings endlessly in the heavens marking the passage of the another miracle. It is certainly clear it provides clear evidence, unequivocal evidence, that something is amiss. Sweep,ful, over the long billions of years of multicellular life, there been five events that rivaled the extinction crisis that we are in today. If that is not evidence that something is amiss, i dont know what amiss means. We understand the cause of the extinction crisis. It is humaninduced habitat degradation, modification, invasion of species, overexploitation, and over the last few decades, Climate Change. Now for a portion of the the American Noble Energy Institute Summ
Due, for china it is almost one but that is going to james. Change. Not all this is sustainable none of this is sustainable. The radical position is that we can boycott and we do that against her know that was catching dolphions. Reject a lot of practices because women said we are not buying it. I do not want to be responsible for killing dolphins, period. That we go, the more educated we are, women, vote with your dollars. Thank you very much. [applause] up next on cspan, journalists discussing religion and the Supreme Court. A conversation on crime and guns from the Group Connecticut black republicans and conservatives. And later, the Renewable Energy summit with discussions on climate change, water shortages, biodiversity, and largescale farming. On the next washington journal, kevin on yearend strategies to prepare for filing your 2014 taxes and tax provisions taking effect next year. Deeperwill talk with woods of usa today on College Sports and efforts to unionize of usa berkowitz