In this illuminating day long discussion celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court clerkships if you are just tuning in im head of the National Constitution center in philadelphia law professor here at George Washington university the Constitution Center is so honored to convene some former Supreme Court clerks to discuss how they are clerkships filled their lives im great to sit here with two appellate judges and two distinguished intellectuals and jurists both were Supreme Court clerks and acclaimed across america with their opinions and their rigor and i just cant wait to ask them how those clerkships influence their approach to the judging in the constitution will briefly incident show them by the judge sunsets on the us court of appeals on the sixth circuit and he is the author of such an important book i want you all to read it because it will transform your view with the making of constitutional law with other important works and he clerks both for Justice Powell an
Cooperation. Guest i did. Host why was that . Guest there were several things that were different about this book than my other book. This is the first book i have written that was really at the border of journalism and history. All the other books that i wrote i had covered the underlying story in real time and then wrote about it. This is something, i was alive in the 1970s but i was a kid. So i was really starting from scratch in terms of my research and i discovered that there was a tremendous volume of printed material, in particular 150 boxes of material about the Symbionese Liberation Army and i managed to obtain access to that so i knew i had a great deal of material that no one had ever seen before but obviously just to answer your question i would have liked to have talked to betty hearst. She made clear to media areas wt and indirectly that she wanted no part of this that i realized i had so much material from her and about her, her own book, her own testimony, her fbi inter
Sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasnt been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, i have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. I have spent most of my life as a democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, weve never had it so good. But i have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isnt something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collectors share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 Million Dollars a day more than the government takes
Senator from florida, i know he and i both know, as i hope does every member of this body, just how precious and fragile the freedom is that we enjoy in this country. As president reagan continued in that speech, if we lose freedom here, theres no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. And this idea that government is beholding to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of mans relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for selfgovernment or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan for our lives better than we can plan them ourselves. You and i are increasingly told that we have to choose between a left or right. Well, id like to suggest theres no such thing as left or right. Theres only up or down. Up, mans old age dream, the ultimate and individ
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