have advised us in the opening of our new gallery, civil war and reconstruction: the battle for freedom and equality. [applause] who has seen the new gallery? and everyone who has not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and is cosponsoring our event this evening. isn t it wonderful? it s so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jefferson s declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and frederick douglass, and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and then resurrected by king. and thavolia glymph and kate masur are two of the scholars who were on our scholarly advisory panel. you ll hear from them as well as catherine clinton tonight in a conversation moderated my colleague lana ulrich, our head of constitutional content who worked with the incredible team to create that exhibit. if you haven t seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see
i don t know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. is that possible? you want to do that? ok. all right. i asked if that picture was you. well, it s part of me. this is maurice jacob weiner, my father. and this lecture is in honor of him. my grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. spoke yiddish. never really learned the language. he graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he also boxed and ran track. he was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant, came home. really didn t mind the war. now, he was a nifty guy. and i think one of the main reasons i m doing this tonight is because of him, because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning, which was quite a scene. and he would quote the gettysburg address or quote from shakespeare but above all, he would talk about world war ii. so i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was five years old. i know the differences in
relations and recent events in this country, including the secession attempt by catalonia. also, the white house press secretary sarah sanders at 2:00 p.m. good afternoon and welcome. i am a former president of the national press club. i am currently president of the society of american business editors and writers. the national press club is the world s leading professional organization for journalists to our professions future through our programming with events such as this, while working to foster a free press around the world. for more information about the club, three please visit the website at press.org. on behalf of our members, worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you in the audience. our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists. constantly, we remind people that if you hear applause in the audience, we would like to note that general members members of the general public attend. we would also like to welc
ceremony on the dwight d. eisenhower s are memorial in washington c. now the president of the world bank talks about recent trends in the global economy and some of the ways the private sector can help used financing for developing countries. from the national press club, this is an hour. good afternoon and welcome. i am a former president of the national press club. i am currently president of the society of american business editors and writers. the national press club is the world s leading professional organization for journalists committed to our professions future through our programming with events such as this, while working to foster a free press around the world. for more information about the club, three please visit the website at press.org. on behalf of our members, worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you in the audience. him and our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists. constantly, we remind people
about litigation reform. i was compelled to whisper to my staff counsel that i thought he got it exactly right. i hope that and is not used against you in your next campaign. [laughter] i just mentioned that at the outset as a way of saying that we may have issues but we will approach today s hearing with somewhat different perspective. i find it remarkable that the witnesses request has ongoing litigation which is expected to be resolved very soon and they were not comfortable sending the witness under those circumstances. the witnesses are not in any way involved in it is my hope that we will move past this political theater and get back to the substance of the judiciary committee. thank you. will go ahead and give each senator the chance to make a brief statement before we move on to the next panel in the senator on the side of the aisle will start. thank you mr. chairman. as a longtime practitioner in federal court 15 years practicing with federal judges i ve deve