Cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Announcer in june the Supreme Court ruled lgbtq individuals are protected from federal law from employment his termination. Justice Stephen Breyer talks about the decision, how the coronavirus has impacted the courts work, and broadcasting live audio of oral arguments. Moderator welcome, Justice Breyer. Welcome one and all. We are excited to be hosting Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. Talia, if you can hear me, turn on your audio and video. I think your audio is on. Weve asked you to start your video and hopefully you can do that. It is a pleasure to welcome everybody back to Harvard Hillel. We have Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. Justice breyer is on the United States Supreme Court and one of ascendedpeople to have in our nation. Jews have done18 so before. For our purposes, he was a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Chief judge of the unites states court of appeals
Doris thank you for coming. How may people here have read team of rivals . Bully pulpit . Lyndon johnson . The kennedys and fitzgeralds . How many agree shes one of our foremost writers . [applause] for those who dont know her background very briefly grew up in new york, brooklyn, got her phd at harvard one Harvard White house fellow the Johnson Administration help johnson with his memoirs and then went back to teach at harvard and now has been riding extraordinarily well received and terrific biographies and histories in the wind and sir of a Pulitzer Prize as well. Youll be writing a new book coming out september 18 called leadership about on the leadership skills of the people you have written about lincoln, roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson we will talk about that today why did you decide to write about four different people why not . Each time i finish writing one of the books i have take all that persons books out of my study to make room for the next one i felt li
Would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David but your current view is that as long as youre heal
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David but your current view is that as long as youre heal