With people with disabilities. Why do you choose that type of law quick. I was bored deaf blind and then i have to ask for accommodations and that ability to get an education and with people with disabilities and that struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Here is her book. The first deaf blind person to graduate from harvard law schoo school . Yes. What was that experience like quick. There were a lot of unknowns. I could not reach out to another deaf blind harvard law graduate to say how do you do that . Had you taken exam . I had to figure a lot of it out and that started way back in elementary school. And i was extremely surprised about trying to do an assignment and to investigate what was going on and i was in california in the mainstream Public School in a classroom with nondisabled students and then they realize the teacher was writing assignments on the board. So i needed an instructor to read the assignment so if i did that i would never be successful i had to be my own
Why do you choose that type of law quick. I was bored deaf blind and then i have to ask for accommodations and that ability to get an education and with people with disabilities and that struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Here is her book. The first deaf blind person to graduate from harvard law schoo school . Yes. What was that experience like quick. There were a lot of unknowns. I could not reach out to another deaf blind harvard law graduate to say how do you do that . Had you taken exam . I had to figure a lot of it out and that started way back in elementary school. And i was extremely surprised about trying to do an assignment and to investigate what was going on and i was in california in the mainstream Public School in a classroom with nondisabled students and then they realize the teacher was writing assignments on the board. So i needed an instructor to read the assignment so if i did that i would never be successful i had to be my own advocate and i started advocati
Welcome to the National Press club. I covered as a very young reporter, a baby good evening. Welcome to the National Press club. I covered watergate as a very young reporter, a baby reporter, they just let me come in diapers. I covered from the hearings to the trials. I am especially elated to be here this evening i went like to welcome cspan and the cspan audience. This is being filmed for cspans American History tv. Our program tonight marks the 50th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixons resignation in the scandal. It was a significant event in the nations political history to say the least. The National Press club played an Important Role on it, special prosecutor cox, who i would later be lucky enough to become friends with held his News Conference here on the afternoon of october 20th, right in the clubs ballroom. It was at that Historic Press conference that he insisted that president nixon turn over the tapes. We will see a clip later
Duty. Author kris krisanne haul in early august, how is President Trump doing. Guest well, he is a president. Host and . Guest well, i teach the constitution as it was intended to be applied. And the president s in america have operated outside the realm of their executive authority, constitutionally speaking, for decades. So, to judge trump, for me, is not to judge him against obama or george w. Bush but to use the constitution as a standard. And sometimes he is good, sometimes not so much. And so that is how we view what goes on in washington, dc, not based on Political Party or personality but based on the standard by which all americans should hold their federal government, the constitution. Host when you use that measuring stick, which president s in your view have adhered to the constitution, which havent . Guest its been a very long time since we had a president that was truly constitutional. You look at article 2 of the constitution, and that host which is. Guest the delegated
Coverage of the texas book festival. [inaudible conversations] hello. Welcome to the 21st annual texas book festival. Thank you for coming out today in support of our authors, the festival and celebrating great literature. As you may know the book festival is a Nonprofit Organization that works to strengthen literacy by a wording grants and funding nationally recognized authors and illustrators in the title i schools and donating books to those students. By being here today, you are funding these important initiatives. Thank you very much. Please silence your cell phones, there is no flash photography allowed. The authors will be signing books after the session and books will be available in the tent. My name is clay johnson and i will be the moderator of the session today. We are here to hear from alberto gonzales, the author of this new book true faith and allegiance a story of service and sacrifi sacrifice. He served as attorney general, the white house senior counsel to the preside