next, hugh hewitt talks about the elements that go in to achieving happiness. this is about an hour. thank you, jonathan quite a lot actually. it s always great to be back at the nixon library, especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of nixon s birth, especially to celebrate with friends of the library who come offing. as many of you know, in late 1988, the phone rang. i was searching for president reagan and his administration. on the other end this president nixon asking me to come back to your belinda to oversee construction of the library for a couple years. so i was very, very pleased to do so. it was a shining jewel and anyone watching on c-span across the united states who has never been to the nixon library, you want to come here. it s an extraordinary celebration of the american presidency, but also extra or a lead, the small house that frank nixon built from a kit and continued through a life measure in decades that achievement, not hours of achievement,
it is more translation they of leadership because there s so much support then we would love for barack obama in the african-american community i think he forgets it. with the new black i think this is the racial critique of both justice thomas and surprisingly barack obama. host: we are talking with georgetown law professor paul butler contributed id essayed to move the new black inherent is in his book. let s get free by new press. thank you for your time. guest: thank you for having me. it is always great to be back at the nixon library especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of president nixon s person specially to celebrate with friends of the libra in as many of you know, , late night the phone rang i was working for president reagan and on the other end was president nixon asking me to come back to oversee the construction of this library for a couple of years. i was very pleased to do so it is a shining jewel anybody watching across the united states ha
good law school. i wanted to make a difference. to lift as i climbed that is that at sixth i got from my mom from the church who gave me a great high-school education. host: yale undergrad? spinet then harvard. host: then where did you work? eighty-one working for a judge in the federal trial courts in manhattan. she was the second african-american woman federal judge in new york. she was a feisty who said criminal defense attorneys before she was the state judge said a federal judge. she had seen it all from police, prosecutors, defense attorneys covet and defendants. i think she was very effective and she got some tough breaks. she was in a court that was considered wall street the southern district of new york. i think a lot of lawyers who would practice would represent the top corporations in the investment banks were not used to taking orders from this black woman. she did not have it easy but she gave them how. host: do serve as a defense attorney as well? guest