Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b
All of you and welcome to senator burr and senator warner. Both of you have had very long careers in Public Service and i know that you have when the house in 1994 and senator warner in 1989 worked with doug wilder before becoming governor yourself of virginia. What inspired your career in Public Service . What would you say to young people today who would like to pursue a career in Public Service . [laughter] id like to thank and i actually am a little bit older then richard but i dont acknowledge that. He dies his hair. Not anymore. At least i have hair. I like to say that i was old enough to get touched by the idealism of the but not old 1960s. Enough to get jaded by it. I grew up in the midwest indiana and illinois and connecticut but it was with synchrony for 35 years. And my family was a personal to graduate from college. And somehow my parents with political and Boy Scouts Church community pta but not political and somehow i always had the bug. Took some time where i went off an
Supporters of president lincolns cottage. I wanted to take a moment to recognize two members who have been dedicated supporters since before we were open to the public. Eric reese has been a member for 12 years. Can you wager and please . [applause]and wayne for 13 years. [applause] and thank you to the other members for them. I didnt want to name everyone but i thought since you two have been been giving since before 2008 has been special. At the conclusion of tonights q a, we invite you to the book signing which will be downstairs in the library. We welcome Sidney Blumenthal, all the powers of earth the political life of Abraham Lincoln vol. Iii 18501860. He is the author of the selfmade mad and. Is the former assistant and cedar advisor to president bill clinton and Senior Advisor to former secretary of state, hillary clinton. Hes been a National Staff reporter for the Washington Post and editor and writer for the new yorker. His books include the rise of the clinton wars and a perm
Thank you, i want to thank stephanie and skip for the clinr and Clinton School of public service, i want to thank the family for sponsoring this lecture series and thank you [laughter] [cheers and applause] i want to thank i want to thank all of you. I tried to entertain Justice Ginsburg for a few moments before we came over here by telling her stories of my adventures and misadventures in arkansas politics. [laughter] back when we all thought of each other as people, 3 dimensional human beings before we realized we were [cheers and applause] and its fairly well known, not actually met Justice Ginsburg until that memorable sunday evening in june of 1993 when she came to see me at the white house residence. I had only interviewed two other people and immediately leaked to the press and i had a lot young age, they worked hard and reporter called them, they were more afraid to say i dont know than anything else, so i got a good kick out of it. One of the most famous people in the entire w
[indiscernible] two songs i wrote in the summer of 1965. Look up yonder in the sky, what is that i pray . A bird, a plane, a man insane, my president lbj. Hes flying high way up in the sky just like superman, i got a little piece of kryptonite, im gonna bring him back to land. I said, come out, lyndon, with your hands held high, drop your guns, baby, and reach for the sky. Got you surrounded and you aint got a chance. Gonna send you back to texas make you work on your ranch, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He can call super woman and his super dogs. It sure wont do him no good i found out why from a russian spy he aint nothing but a comic book. Gonna pull him off the stands, clean up the land were gonna have us a brandnew day and what is more i got the fantastic four and spiderman to help him on his way i said come out, lyndon, with your hands held high drop your guns, baby, reach for the sky got you surrounded and you aint got a chance gonna send you back to texas, make you work on your ranch