G thanks for joining us. Lets start with what exactly is the historic survey of president ial leadership . The Historian Project started in a series called american President Presence where we did an indepth program for a year on each of the President S and their wives and their administrations. It had a lot of great reviews that we wanted to continue that program for there is a high interest so we decided to come up with a Historian Serviceware Rip reached out to you historians and professionals who served President S from around the country and ask them to rate the President S and 10 leadership characteristics using a one to 10 scale so please characteristics are public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with congress, vision and agenda, pursued equal justice for all and performance within the context of the times and that we have a ranking of all the presents within each of those 10 leadershi
We will hear argument this morning may it please the court. I think the key conceptual point here to understand is that arizona is that denied anyone any Voting Opportunity of any kind. This is not like a Literacy Test which denies you the right to vote. Its not like Vote Delusion where white Block Voting denies minorities an equal opportunity to elect. Everyone here is eligible and registered to vote. All they have to do is utilize the myriad opportunities that arizonas offered them over 27 days to vote by mail for free or in person. And since theres no denial of opportunities, this is a disparate impact claim that would not being could niesable in other contexts. Under title 7, disparate impact relates to denial of an employment opportunity, a job or promotion. It doesnt get involved in the process. No ones ever brought a title 7 claim saying you cant require people to send in applications because minorities have less access to transportation and mail. Analogous to the claim being ma
Ambassador, talking about his political career. Political career. Richard you are unique in that you obviously served a matter of time in the senate, you provide you presided over the senate, you are willing to go back to the senate later, and yet the senate, i gather, has changed significantly, during those four years or so. What was it like when you went there at the beginning, and what is your sense about of how it has changed. Mr. Mondale i think it has changed, and i underline the word think because i know it has changed my own mind, but some might disagree. When i came to the senate, when dole came to the senate, in 1968, four years later, while it was partisan and we had our debates and all that stuff, there was an underlying sense of civility, we are all members of this club, and we got to know each other, and we would crack jokes and wherever we could, we would try to find ways of doing things together. Someone used to say, the only way the majority and get done what it needs
Kentucky, where retail grew up in a slave holding family yet lived to see her husband, Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation 45 years later. A mother of four sons she witnessed the deaths of three of those four sons as well as her own husbands assassination. There are life was filled with tragedy as lincolns political partner she oh so relished and their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thank you for being with us for cspans continuing series on Firsts Influence and image. Then as we look at Mary Todd Lincoln invite two of our academic advisers, history advisers for the whole series to be our guest for this program. Let me introduce you to rosalynn turbo or pan. She is a History Professor Emeritus at morgan state university. Richard norton smith, our other guest tonight, and at her table
you re watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span 3, explore our nations past. c-span 3, created by americas cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. we are four trillion dollars in debt, going into debt an additional one billion dollars every working day of the year. while we sit here tonight, we will go into debt an additional 50 million dollars an hour and a half. it s not the republicans fault. it s not the democrats fault. what i m looking for is who did it. they are the two folks involved, so maybe together they didn t. the facts are, we have to fix it. somewhere out there, there is an extra terrestrial doing this to us i guess. everyone says they take responsibility. someone, somewhere has to take responsibility for this. that was independent candidate ross perot during the second of three presidential debates on october 15th, 1992. he was talking about one of his favorite issues, the u.s. debt.