How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
City, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we thought what the librarys president and ceo, it anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Host tony marx, lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . Guest the New York Public Library circulates the largest in america. 88 branches in every neighborhood diversely serve as well as for Important Research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system, but also the Schaumburg Center in harlem, library for performing arts at Lincoln Center and science industry and is this library. We have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from return on the billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employs me, the
Went on the floor that day, the first thing i did was go over to bird. I said bob byrd i will never know the rules of the senate like you do. Ill make you a deal. I will never surprise you, if you will not surprise me. He said let me think about it. He came back later that afternoon and said ok. And we never did. I think that tradition has carried on. I think dole adopted that point of view. The system, and the rules of the senate are such, that theres plenty of room for disagreement and controversy. To do so within the framework of organization without sneaking up on your adversary. Some of the interview with former Senate Majority leader howard baker airing at 8 00 eastern 5 00 pacific. News from the pentagon planning more cuts for benefits for troops and the 2016 budget to be submitted to the white house in february. Military pay and benefits cost 185 billion in 2011. That decreased by 8 billion. That was mostly due to the reduction in active duty and reserve troops. You can read mo
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Representing atheists and secular people that scalia dismissed. I believe it was, they will never be satisfied, we dont need to consider them. We were talking about complicity in hobby lobby. This new idea that the catholic majority has brought in. If you make it easier for somebody to commit a sin, that sin can be placed back on to you. The owners of hobby lobby were allowed to not provide contraception. How does that fit in with the concept of the judge as an umpire . Surely, if you have five justices who believe, for example, a portion is a sin if they make a decision that says abortion can be legal, under that same. Of complicity, they are getting a sin themselves. Can they really be expected to make a decision as the umpire . If they are turning around and are on record as saying, that would be sinful . . Anybody . You spoke about that a little bit. Im not an expert on catholic doctrine. I cannot answer that question. In general, one benefit you could say that the Catholic Church