She will be introducing one of our favorite lecturers from the university of wisconsin, press minor who is actually a georgetown at the moment. I will let her discuss what he will be speaking about. Justice ginsburg has been a great friend to the society and has been a storm narrowly generous in giving her time. No one in the society can call a time when she declined other than when she has been out of the country when we requested for assistance. We thank her again this evening. [applause] but we have just a moment. Let me have just a moment. I know. Give me a moment because Justice Ginsburgs special, as we all know right now. Justice ginsburg was born in brooklyn on the ides of march in 1933. She graduated with a great distinction from cornell and she was doing superbly at harvard for the first two years when she moved to new york and finished at columbia. Workingt two years for a federal judge in new york. She learned swedish to be able to write a book about swedish civil procedures
That all happens tonight on book tv. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone, thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is davis shoulders, its our honor to just on behalf of staff its honor to welcome you here for this event for the brad snyder, foundations of american liberalism. I have a few housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devises, we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention that if youre a regular here, sometimes you know that we ask you to put up the chairs, we are going to have an event following this one, so after the event is over leave the chairs as we are. We are honored to have cspan book tv, comes out to many of our events. This is being recorded but as a part of that, we really like to have whenever you ask a question because theres going to be at the second half of the reading theres going to be time for questions and a
Time lineup at 11 with author richard [inaudible] talking about president lincolns sense of humor. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. [inaudible conversations] mark, how are you . [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is david childers, im art of the event staff here at politics and prose, and its our honor just behalf are of the staff and others, its our honor to welcome you here for this event for the author brad snyder and his new book, the house of truth a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism. I have a few housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devices so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention that if youre a regular here, sometimes you know that we ask you to put up the chairs. Were going to have an event following this one, so after the events
But the pool is still there but should go down. Anybody here ever been to the white house . You going to the Briefing Room and go down the steps which a secret flight of stairs and the pool is still there filled with television and computer equipment and everything with green tile on the wall still there but on one wall there is a piece of plywood that is there and what is cool about that, you get a pen or a sharpie and you can write your name on the wall in the pool so that was turned into the Briefing Room by Richard Nixon ironically since he disliked the press more than any other but the fact that we can go and scribble our name on the wall i would like to thank Richard Nixon, unwittingly, for spotting a whole generation of graffiti artists, including me. That is a story for another day how that became the Briefing Room. Let me state the obvious and get it out of the way. Franklin roosevelt except for abraham lincoln, fdr face down more challenges during his 12 years in office than
Suv and come down from the mountains and go to host university, the only role the americans had was to make sure the drivers drop them off at the university and took them back. That was 5000 bucks. We have time for one more question. You were were directing us to the photograph in this book. I was taken by this one here that shows bernies cereal bowl at the white house on a display in the bush library with a bunch of kia and mia badges and bracelets. Its a damning picture and it shows the attitude. The hardest question, at the end, youre the first person to ask me about the bush museum photos. I can talk a long time about how we manage which photos got in, potato factory bush. All im going to say is i went to the museum and i saw what i saw. So barney had a role in a runup to the world, how, he was the president ial dog when the city had the annual White House Television Correspondents Dinner and they had a spoof in the oval office about where is the wnd. I was in iraq at the time, it