They practice argument sessions for virtually all the cases every term and after the last argument they have a gathering to say thank you to the volunteers who serve as the mock justices for these practice sessions and when you are at the event Justice Ginsburg appeared and was honored and Justice Scalia made this very warm introduction to her. Ginsburg being a fan of the institute arranged for some Opera Singers to common serenade her. It was really a beautiful thing that stuck with me and i incorporated that into my novel. So i will read briefly tony asked us to get something that captured the essence of the Supreme Court. This is more of a quirky thing for those of you who have ever met somebody in the Supreme Court they tend to talk in their own language and jargon so my character is out of a fictionalized version of that event and he is making some observations about that. So it says we were spoiled at lsg cecelia said. Like most of the Supreme Court community cecilia spoke in abbreviations and acronyms. The office of solicitor general was os g. Wasnt just as robert reid. It was our day. The case wasnt dismissed or improperly granted. There is the gcr, that the cbs g. And the list went on an ivory tower version of annoying teenage tech speakers. [applause] these are tough acts to follow. My passage is not funny actually so i may be at a disadvantage. This is a short passage and it does i think capture even though its not set at the Supreme Court it captures in some ways the psychology of how do you get to become one of the come out of the 1. 4 million lawyers in america how do you wind up as one of the nine rogue ones who were sitting not too far from where we are right now. By the way this is funny. I feel like this is what it feels like to get a confirmation hearing. There are these bright light shining down on us and there are cameras on so its probably the closest i will get a confirmation hearing could i will read the short passage. The background is a character to the book. The character has found out that she will not be clerking for the Supreme Court. I would never have the privilege of clerking for the Supreme Court. A longtime dream of mine was dashed. At the same time i would never have the corresponding burdens and make no mistake about it the only supreme quirk came with high expectations. Within a few years of leaving you are expected to enjoy a certain amount of professional success and partnership in a major law firm, tenured professorship at elite law school a high government office. If you work for a federal judge by age 45 people would wonder what went wrong. Even making it to a coveted life tendency down the federal bench did not put an end to ambition ambition. District judges wanted to be circuit judges. Circuit judges wanted to be particularly wellrespected circuit judges such as feel judges or better yet Supreme Court justices. I recall what judge stinson told me during my interview. Id like to be a judge who is going places Great Success didnt take you off the treadmill but simply puts you in a different treadmill at a higher speed and a steeper incline. Now i didnt have to worry about that. With no hope on the Supreme Court clerkship in my future was free to be an ordinary person. It felt liberating to have the way to an ambition lifted from me or for so i tried to tell myself. In the spirit of talking about clerkships and court life im going to read a brief excerpt from the chapter about the accounts of Justice Ginsburg one of whom we interviewed for the book. When rbg her to the grapevine that a clerk was birmingham got buds by the chambers. He remembers picking up the phone apprehensively thinking he had met something. You know you have a special friend of the court rpg could you must have her up for tea. Todays leader she set set up the placement of tea set and spent 30 minutes with the young couple. Ladies she performed their sporting ceremony. I will never forget the end said berman instead of by the power invested me by whatever she said by the power vested in me by the United States constitution. My wife always jokes if we got divorced it would be unconstitutional. [laughter] rbg gets in on clerk shenanigans. In her first full term on the court the clerks concealed his Fantasy Baseball Team along with the other justices of the course had put together. The clerk teams played against beat him soundly reports a clerk that year. He eagerly reported a victory to rbg and suggests these she sent to memo crowing about the memo. She looked at me like i was crazy she recalled. She boldly slid the draft memo across the table. Rbg look to the case. Tell me what fantasy baseball is again she said. She took out a pence make the corrections. In the end as your maverick mama red ear sam i understand this week my clerk speak your team by a score of 100. Expect more even from the junior justice. [laughter] [applause] thanks to everyone i have a copy of my book in frenemies im going to read a passage about a clerk trying to decide a case which is part of what this book is about. Its not an easy case. Military authorities have imposed a curfew on japaneseamericans or remove them from their homes ordered him to report to Assembly Centers for transport to relocation camps. Gordon here shot me refused to assemble. Now the aclu has chosen him to make the challenge the exclusion orders. They have chosen him because he is clearly loyal. Hes an eagle scout of baseball fan no threat to the security of the coast. The court cannot decide for him alone. Well decide for everyone excluded and how do we decide . I use the method my professors taught me pay the lawyers are probably a story of the man who walked into the fbi office and told them he would not go. Are those murky waters that draw the same intellect. Im looking for the bright fish of the loss but i find nothing. Im lost. Im interested in embassy and there is no law neither in the sundappleds shadow of the depth. There are only men could i see only faces today see gordon here by aussie. General john dewitt with his ribbons and medals. American soldiers standing in the camp guard towers across the specific beaches. And congress and the department of justice. Heres how to decide a constitutional case Justice Roberts once said. Latest at alongside the constitution and see if they fit but he must have been joking i think now. Theres no law that will decide this case. The only question is how would you trust to get these people are dangerous they can be excluded and if they are loyal they cannot. Theyre the faces in the story and the voices in the breeze. Whose word we accept . The japanese or lawyer loyal. There were knots of sabotage. There have been none in hawaii. Evacuation mr. Van by fearmongering. We did not know said the department of justice. We could not know. They worship the emperor to god. They send their children to japan for schooling. If no sabotage occurred my not that mean they were gathering for concerted blow . Of the equation was a reasonable measure. Its milder than the drafts. The Pacific Coast states take a stronger tone to these people are disloyal they say. Theyre not like us. They do not assimilate. They have their own religion their own language schools. They send tinfoil home before pearl harbor. For the vaccination there were radio signals from the coast and lights flashing messages to ships at sea. On the loyalty questionnaire they admitted it all. [applause] thank you. We will adjourn and there is a reception and several stacks of looks that are available for purchase. Its been a great time and a great discussion. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Michael Grimm or what is the takes their library . Henry clay folger and his wife emily bolger had a big idea which is the original sources for shakespeare in his world would be of value to everyone in perpetuity so they collected those materials and they put them here two blocks into the u. S. Capitol as a get to the nation. Host why washington d. C. . Guest they felt was an international city. Its our capital and this was a truly national and International Asset so in addition to putting this marvelous collection here they created this remarkable building which has the First North American theater. It has a beautiful great hault of where and which is modeled on Hampton Court in another beautiful almost medieval room. Host who are the folgers . Guest mr. Soldier folger was present at standard oil and made his fortune as an oilman to what he was running standard oil of quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world bar none including 82 copies of the 16,231st folio. Those who we are going to hear that term throughout this interview. What is that . Guest the first folio is the collection of 36 shakespeare plays published by two of shakespeares friends who knew him. Without that book which was published in 1623 we probably wouldnt have 18 of shakespeares plays including mcbath and a 12 night in the winters tale picks probably the most studied single edition of the book in the world and is also a great connection to shakespeare this writer that is still used by scholars today. Posts of that was put together seven years after his death. Guest exactly right. Host how many of those exist and how many were printed and how makes this . Guest there were probably 700 copies of the first folio printed and there are 233 known copies of this book. One just turned up last year in france but the folger has 82 in its collection. That is by far the largest number in any one place and the folgers collected because they knew that every copy was different. The printers corrected this book as was printed and they put the book together. They took from this pile in that pile so mr. And mrs. Bolger new if we wanted to get at the best version of shakespeares plays in this book we would have to adhere them. Host Michael Whitmore here at the folger at the items you have an display available to the public . Guest yes they are. Anyone can see the first folio of the folger. We are free and open to the public on holidays but we were created in order to share this remarkable collection so thats what we do. Host how many people of the upcoming hear . Guest we have about 80,000 people come here and when you come here you can see at first folio in the corner of our great hall. You can also see one of our shakespeare plays performed in the first theater north american if you are qualified reader and and you can commend her reading rooms in request items from the hundreds of thousands of items that we have in our collection downstairs. Host is the reading room restricted to scholars . Guest the reading room is restricted to people and have a good reason to use it. If you are not a professional scholar needed to consult something we would open our materials to you. Host is the folger collection on line . Guest about 60,000 items are what we call page openings on line in this beautiful highquality digital images. So one of our missions is to open that collection to people who want to visit is virtually. We also starting a project to make searchable about 130,000 pages of our manuscript collection so manuscript is handwritten material. Its hard to decipher and we are inviting others to join in a car car crowdsourcing initiative to look at those on line and we will teach you how to decipher the writing. You will decipher it and you will add to our collection. Host Michael WhitmoreWilliam Shakespeare when did he live and when did he die . Guest he was born in the mid16th century and he died in 1616. Thats why this year we are celebrating the at anniversary of his death. He was wellknown. There are hundreds of references to shakespeare that occurred during his lifetime and one of the things we have done this here is to gather the documents that really connect this to shakespeare the man, the talk of people about shakespeare whether its in print or its noted on paper, we wanted to get that all in one place so this year show called life as an icon is our attempt to bring that together so people really cant see what an impact this writer had on the people around him. Which argued we are in the display hall right now. What is the architecture of this hall and lets walk through the display. Guest what you were looking at his tudor great hall. Its the kind of room he would put in a large family estate. Its actually something you would use for exercise. Thats why its long. Usually windows would be open to a garden and you would put your painting collection in this room. I was actually what this room was designed to look at but after 1932 we realized full daylight is not good for rare materials. So we decided to limit the amount of light in this space. Its different from what you would see in england but is still grand. Youve this very high ceiling. The city lock in length. Its also the tudor strap work. Host with William Shakespeare have been comfortable in this room . Guest yes, he would. He would have known exactly what kind of room this is an something we are learning about him, he did purchase a home in stratford called new place which is quite a fancy pile in his hometown. One of the things the archaeologists suspected he did was knock down some of the bedrooms that he could create a gallery. They must have liked prunes like this. It was either he who did it or a member of his family but he would have recognized this kind of room. Lets look at some of the displays you have here. Guest i just mentioned this grand house in stratford. Shakespeare needed to do something that we were call would call a title search which is to make sure he had clear titles of the property that he thought with the earnings he had from his theater career. We are going to go over here. These are two halves of something that is called an indenture and when this document was executed, the two sides of the deal or the agreement looked at either side which is the identical term on each side. One is read aloud and the others check to make sure the terms of the deal are identical and then its cut with a wavy line so if theres ever a dispute you say show me the other side of this and we will check it. It was a fascinating early modern antifraud device that was used when shakespeare decided to check whether he had clear title to this property and here the third piece, these two were capped by shakespeare and the other party in the agreement read shakespeare would have held one of the pieces of salomons hand. He would have kept it in his home with all this other important papers. Host the title to the house. Guest this is one of the things that he saved. He didnt sign this because he didnt need to. The scribes had to create this other counterfoil which has never been next to the original piece of element it was a part of. This came over to us from london and we are bringing pieces together for the first time. Its a nice simple for what this exhibition is because never have so many documents directly connected to shakespeare ever been in one place and this is in centuries. I doubt they will ever be gathered together again so the ability to bring together a congregation or fellowship of documents is this remarkable moment of connection with this writer and thats why we really want to share it. Its so precious to have this ability to show it. The other thing i would say is we have chosen to create this on line resource with the assistance information of our partners plus 30 other institution so that we can show 400 of these documents in highvolume images and we have actually transcribed them so you can search them. Its called called shakespeare documented in a dig you will be the first and most important stop for people trying to understand shakespeares biography. We have made this freely available with the help of our partners and thats going to be one of the surviving legacies in this particular initiative. Host what do some of your british partners think about the fact that dave Folger Shakespeare library has one of the largest collections in the world . Guest shakespeare is probably one of the most important if not the most important cultural exports from great britain. Shakespeare is a global phenomenon. There are more films made about shakespeare in india than there are in the United States and britain combined so the ability to make the connections with the United States, as a way of embodying this ongoing relationship between the two countries. Turns out to be important so we do have regularly diplomatic gatherings here at the folger. The ambassadors house who customarily served on our board but its important because it shows this ongoing cultural connection. The other thing i would say his americans really discovered shakespeare in the 18th and 19th centuries and made this writer thereon. He was like someone you could turn to when you were in uncertain times. You were trying to think about your aspirations are tough decisions americans are making after the civil war were during the civil rights. Theres something about the way this writer tells stories and a powerful language. Americans felt like they could just grab that and use it themselves. I think of shakespeare as the kind of uncle that we turn to when we need to have a conversation of the cant with family, with our closest family. Their something good about the fact that shakespeare wasnt an american. He never came to this country and that gives us a lot more latitude when they want to say i think this reminds me of mcbath or when you watch the house of cards and you say that beth, lady macbeth or when a member of Congress Like senator byrd used to do both shakespeare on the floor of the senate. Host who was king or queen during shakespeares life and did that include guess the shakespeare was alive during the rain of Queen Elizabeth and the rain of king james the first and when those brains, when the succession happened in the scottish king used to be james the sixth, shakespeare had to change his theatrical pat practice. He needed to f