Will give us the overview of the book, jack will give us some comments on the book and we will take it from there and tried to yield as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter, facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is her author Saikrishna Prakash, the distinguished professor of law at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow at uba center for the study of the presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense ten year in the Bush Administration office of legal capital during a key early. In the work. Jack is one of ou
Moment how president of trump is dealing with the pandemic. Guest its not that different from the way weve seen him in the past three and a half years. Hes making it a very partisan talking about the democratic mayor isnt doing enough, and how important the National Guard is and i think that he is in a partisan issue where in the past weve seen president s reach out and try to be compassionate and bring people together instead of divide them. So thats something we have seen both in the pandemic and the recent protests. Host how did that come about, what is the genesis of its . Guest ive always been fascinated by what happens behind the scenes. When one new family moves in and another move south, as you know, this swearingin ceremony that we all watch, thats really behind the scene there is controlled chaos at the white house. And in the last inauguration i was fascinated by v. Obama is taking off in a helicopter right after president of trump was sworn in and flew over the white house
Guest i think it isnt all that different from the way weve seen him view the presidency of the last three and a half years. He is making it very partisan. He came out a few hours ago talking about the democratic mayor isnt doing enough, and how important the National Guard is. I think hes making it a partisan issue where in the past a president would reach out and be compassionate and bring people together instead of divide them. So i think that is something we have seen in both the pandemic and the recent protests. Host how did your book, about, what is the genesis of it . Guest id written a book called the residence and a couple other books about the white house, and ive always been fascinated by what happens behind the scenes on Inauguration Day. To me that is such a dramatic day when one new family moves in and another moves out. The public is looking at the front of the capitol. As you know, the swearingin ceremony that we all watch, but really behind the scenes theres controlled
Exhibit that began at the New York Historical society and has traveled here, and it was a real pleasure to work on that, and i hope that you all get a chance to see it. Its an interesting exhibit. Today im going to talk a bit about my current research, which, as camille said, is about how the u. S. Army as an institution was trying to manage a crisis that its leaders perceived during the war in vietnam, a crisis around race. And as i imagine almost all of you know, the u. S. War in vietnam was the first major conflict that the United States fought from the beginning with an integrated armed force, with a racially integrated armed force. And for much of that war, that process was treated as a great success. And in combat, it almost without exception was. But by the end of the 1960s, army leaders were talking about the war within the war and trying to figure out how to manage a racial crisis that they saw as starting to tear the army apart. So, my research right now is trying to think ab
Today is saturday. I know it is saturday because i dont wear a tie on saturday. The total number of hospitalizations are down, again. Interesting to look at the curve, how fast we went up and how relatively slow the decline has been. That shows you the problem of having a spike, a spike happens quickly but resolves slowly. Hospitalizations, intubation is down. Number of new cases per day is also down, 400, which sounds like a large number but this is of 19tatewide population million. 15,000 hospital beds. Lost, 157. Of lives that number has been stubborn. 161, these were all basically in the margin of error, if you will. This system is not that precise. I believe when they actually go back weeks from now and calculate total number of deaths , at deaths, etc. , you will see a variation in this number. We are right about where we were when we started. We want to make sure we do not hell we have gone through. When we talk about reopening, that is a discussion. Half the state now, in terms