for their presentations. they will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their current research on presidential commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of presidential commissions and political history. and i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. as you can tell today s session is being filmed by c-span so do with that information as you will. all right. frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. yeah, my name is frank popper. i teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. i do that at rutgers and at princeton. the reason i m here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the century foundation in new york city on presidential commissions and it s one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple o
next on american history tv, a decision on policymaking and presidential commissions in political history. this talk from purdue university lasts about 90 minutes.90 minut. welcome to our panel on presidential commissions. at the intersection politics, policy making and forgotten history of presidential missions i m joanna grisinger. i m a legal historian of the modern administrative state who has written about presidential commissions and administrative law reform. thanks to you all for coming, unfortunately cynthia spence is unable to be here today but we still look forward to great conversation. we will be informal today. there are two panelists, dov weinryb grohsgal and frank popper will introduce themselves for their presentations. they will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their current research on presidential commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of presidential commissions
75 minutes, a kind of meeting of two cultures. one culture is represented by the people on this stage, who are scholars associate the with the miller center here at the university of virginia and whose studie of the presidency is broad, long-term in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words in the written word. the other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant, so please, greet pat oliphant with a [ applause ] but even nmore so by the work o pat oliphant which you ll see displayed on this screen. the culture that he represents is not sort of broad gauged and long range by highly specific, daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, the washington star for several years. and along the way pat ol fant became the first to work independently of any newspaper. that s how popular his work was, an
proud san franciscans the didn tn franciscan dutch live in san francisco. both ofappointed them still serve on the court today. pretty much part of the liberal block of the court. ruth bader ginsburg, who just turned 84, has now surpassed by few months. in terms of longevity. stephen breyer had an he served in the 1980 s. as the chief dutch both he ruth bader ginsburg congeniality on the corporate he got along with everyone. he was able to get on famously orrin hatch on the other hand. kennedy and orrin hatch agreed on not many things. they greet in their admiration with respect to steve breyer when he was nominated in the last days of jimmy carter s administration. domination. anyones later who could get along with orrin hatch and ted kennedy must have been doing something right. from replace to elena cage, so we get through the introduction portion. ok. kagan, who is a graduate of princeton university, and harvard
original jurisdiction are here at the archives. as our opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney roles with our earliest records starting in we re working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and hope to have them available by september of this year. since its founding in 1934, the national archives has also hosted supreme court justices in person as well as in its records. and some of the justice we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. in the 1950s, justice felix frankfurter serve on the historic records and national pubication. in the 1960s justice arthur goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. including associate justice steven breyer, clarence thomas. yale law professor and constitutional scholar leads the discussion related to the constitution and the their impact of the american people. and those are available on youtube or ustream. now let s get to tonight s program. please welcome to t