From the beginning to the end. It came out in 2006, actually won a pulitzer prize. As a polio victim myself, i have always had a special interest. Ii thought with the pandemic going on there are some lessons that are particularly in regard to vaccines and one of the things we been preaching lately is get vaccinated. En of course one of the big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is that it took 70 years, 70 years to come up with two effective vaccines for polio. Our marvelous country enter marvelous pharmaceutical came up with three vaccines in less than one year to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. One of the most interesting things about the polio. Was fdr came down with polio and 39. Most people thought it was a children s disease. But it did hit adults from time to time. And his own struggle to come back andll ultimately go all the way to the white house, he set up warm springs, a place he would go after he was afflicted because the s
they announced that iran and russia exploited voter information to send misleading e-mails. this is just another reminder that multiple different adversaries with multiple different objectives want to fuel division among americans and create chaos. iran, china, russia, and other adversaries may have different goals, but they all share the same primary objective of undermining america s confidence in our democracy and they are thrill thrill they are thrilled when their disinformation causes us to point fingers at each other rather than at them. the good news is that we spent the last four years gearing up for this. unlike the obama-biden information on whose watch even democrats admit we were caught flat-footed, the trump administration worked overtime with congress and other actors to get us ready. the white house has imposed harsh new sanctions on russians to interfered in 2016. the department of justice, the department of homeland security, and the intelligence community
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 1960 s 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, a
the idea that it was a particular job of the supreme court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support. whether it was atheists or civil rights activist or criminal defendants throughout the 1960 s. second was the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. the idea that liberalism was protected 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. lyndon b. johnson, 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. he first comes in 1965. it is a custom which dates back to the wilson administration. there was one jewish member on the court.
education committee looks at how to open schools safely in the fall during the pandemic. members will hear from the dallas school superintendent, the national pga president, and the pediatrics professor. watch live at 10:15 eastern on c-span three, online at c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. all persons having business before the honorable supreme court of the united states have managed to get their attention. landmark cases. c-span s special history series. produced in partnership with the national constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court decisions. mr. chief justice and may please the court, quite often in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. let s go through a few cases to illustrate very dramatically the visual of what it means for different people who have helped to stick together because they created a rule of law. good