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Returned from a firm outing to prescott, arizona, which has the oldest rodeo on the fourth of july. Of course aware of the rumors that then judge oconnor was being considered for the Supreme Court, we asked her some questions. As you would expect, she was dismissive of the rumors and quickly turned in a conversation to another topic. As i drove that morning, i turned on the news. Just in time to hear president reagan say, she is truly a person for all seasons. I had missed the first part of his remarks and i had not heard him say who she was. During the rest of his remarks, he did not repeat the name. Only when i of course was pounding my steering will asking, who is it . Only when a reporter began speaking, i knew she was Sandra Day Oconnor. I reacted the way many women lawyers reacted, with great emotion. We hope the world for women and law had changed that day and it ha ....
In Guantanamo Bay, it is called guantanamo diary and after that panel and the final panel is on money and then we will talk to gilbert who wrote billion ball it is about College Sports and the funds they receive. Host Linda Hirshman, what is the relationship between Sandra Day Oconnor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg . Were they friends . Guest i would say they had an affectionate alliances. They were not bffs. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was really with friends with scalia. And Sandra Day Oconnor was really friends with lois powell and she and john and loi circumstanceslois went on vacation together. It ....
In the govern class and had faith they deserved to be there and because of that they treated the men who were in the powerful role as if they, the women, were equal to the man. Because they treated the men as equal when the men pressed oconnor and ginsburg to admit they were inferior they took offense. And when they took offense they were so selfdisciplined they only took revenge when it would be effective. The classic example is the dean at Harvard Law School asked ms. Ginsburg in 1957 what she was doing taking up the place of a man at harvard and she said she thought she should anyhow as much as possible about her husbands work who was year ahead of her. After the womans movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the story on the dean so many times he wrote to the harvard newspaper saying she he was only kidding. How did they get to where they were . Part of it was life on ....
Is the message that youre getting out. She did something a lot like sander did, which was by being there and being successful at it she got a message out that has very little to do with kale. In my opinion. N as [laughter]e but thats i think she was the icon as was sandra. It took in her case as it did in both sanders and ruth cases and on believable amount of selfdiscipline. I think that is an excellent place rest and. Unfortunately we are out of time. Please join me in thanking our authors today. [applause]. They will be adjourning to the u of a bookstore sales tend to end signing area booth number 153. Thank you again. [inaudible conversationaller join us to discuss the 2016 president ial Campaign Including the wisconsin primary and then we have Media Coverage of the Campaign Including recent remarks by presid ....