This philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily devoted to the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. So the backdrop. Lbj. After 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights act, he has a sense that the Supreme Court will be significant. Unlike with kennedy, there are no openings on the court. Johnson essentially creates one. The first one comes in 1965. It is a custom which dates back to the wilson administration. There was one jewish member on the court. The jewish member on the court in the early 1960s was arthur goldberg. He had been appointed by jfk. Johnson however wants to appoint this man, his longtime lawyer and fairly close personal friend and advisor, abe fortas.
Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s
They come to 140 clotters from the port of mario to key west, florida in nearly 2,000 boats. Why do they come . Why are there so many . During the spring through fall of 1980, approximately 125,000 cuban refugees arrived in florida from the port of mariel, cuba. Hear interviews from the new arrivals to america and find out why they left, sunday morning at 10 00 on road to the white house rewind. The 1992 democratic and republican conventions. Bill clinton accepts his partys president ial nomination in new york city. In the name of the hardworking americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i proudly accept your nomination for president of the United States. And incumbent president george h. W. Bush accepts his parties a nomination in houston. And i proud to receive and im honored to accept your nomination for president of the United States. At 4 45, architectural historian barry lewis on the evolution and creation of new york citys greenwich village. When the l opened on sixth av
Variety of reasons. So the legislative portion of those reviews never reached fruition. There were a number of internal reviews and internal changes that took place as a result of the Church Committee inquiry and later the and that person has to report to kblg about what it finds about what he or she finds to be the problem internally. Kate scott, thank you. Thank you. Our coverage, 40 years later continues. This is American History tv only on cspan 3. 40 years ago they created a committee to look into the u. S. Intelligence services. They had a long title. The Senate Select committee with respect to intelligence activities. It took on the nickname of its chairman and best known to historys the Church Committee. It called 800 witnesses and the legacy includes the Senate Select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which we know as fisa. Two former staffers are with us and wil