Good evening and thank you to Justice Ginsburg for joining us tonight. I was looking at your record and i notice you have had a lot of name changes over the years. You were called kicky bb when you were little then ruth and then professor ginsburg and then judge ginsburg. Then finally Justice Ginsburg. Most would stop there but then you have a new moniker notorious rvg can i call you Justice Ginsburg quick. You can call me ruth. [laughter] with the Georgetown Law School thank you for being here. And to have a Long Association to celebrate the 100th anniversary your career has focused on the quality very broadly for cholesterol about the amendment you said at one point he wished your mother lived in age where women could achieve and daughters were equally to sons. And to be cherished. So is it clear for the 19th amendment quick. Yes. With that became part of the constitution and to take part in the parade. And to ask what they would have done. And my mother was one of the brightest peop
She had them. That would be to ease. Its how raided hem. Her husband augustine today when george was a 11 and mary was a single mother in her 30s raising six children. That alone i think would resonate with a lot of women in America Today and the tough time she went through raising her children. So, there was a when she was referred to by biographers from time of her passing until the time of the civil war, she came across as kind of like june cleaver, and or mary mother of chryst christ, after the civil war and realtime began to take hold in the American Literature with moby dick and tom sawyer and huck finn, he biographyers who mentioned her made her look more line joan crawford. Both got it wrong. She was neither and she was both, so i decided, plus i live in the area where she the millenbeck and ending forest and lively area of rural virginia on the northern neck, and theres a lot of just something that really washington always piqued im written five books on reagan, wrote one book
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I say this all the time we have to fight for local journalism when we lament losing a Hardware Store or things that are big parts of the community the local newspaper is just as important. Joe mcnamara reports on the things that we care about. Our kids, our local teams and to celebrate that thank you to everybody for coming here. And she has shown tremendous bravery and what she has done for us. Not only has she lost her soulmate that she had the courage to step up and stand up against the nra. She has been subjected to horrible things but was brave enough to stay in there to say we need to talk about these issues. But these things that are happening in our community , its a thing for all of us to tackle whether red or blue when these horrible things happen in our communities, not picking out democrats or republican republicans, causing heartbreak and devastation stood up for us on this issue so i want to thank her for that. [applause] and i also want to say what it must have taken how