Hello, my name is brad tobin. Im the dean of Baylor Law School. Thank you for joining us today as we have a virtual Front Row Seat to listen in on a fascinating discussion between our friend Talmadge Boston and former secretary of state James Baker the third as you know, Secretary Baker was a powerhouse in Washington Dc in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united States Secretary of state and also further served for united States President s over the course of three decades. Secretary baker was scheduled to be our Capstone Speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. However, he and mrs. Baker contracted covid19. Im pleased to report that they now have covid19 the illness in their rear view mirror today. The secretary will be interviewed as i noted by Tallmadge Boston Talmich in his own right is a high persona in texas and across the nation he is a leading trial lawyer. He is known in our profession as what we call a Goto Lawyer or a super lawyer.
As we have a virtual Front Row Seat to listen in on a fascinating discussion between our friend Talmadge Boston and former secretary of state James Baker the third as you know, Secretary Baker was a powerhouse in Washington Dc in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united States Secretary of state and also further served for united States President s over the course of three decades. Secretary baker was scheduled to be our Capstone Speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. However, he and mrs. Baker contracted covid19. Im pleased to report that they now have covid19 the illness in their rear view mirror today. The secretary will be interviewed as i noted by Tallmadge Boston Talmich in his own right is a high persona in texas and across the nation he is a leading trial lawyer. He is known in our profession as what we call a Goto Lawyer or a super lawyer. Tallmadge is also a historian and he has a special focused interest on the qualities of leaders
School. Thank you for joining us today as we have a virtual Front Row Seat to listen in on a fascinating discussion between our friend Talmadge Boston and former secretary of state James Baker the third as you know, Secretary Baker was a powerhouse in Washington Dc in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united States Secretary of state and also further served for united States President s over the course of three decades. Secretary baker was scheduled to be our Capstone Speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. However, he and mrs. Baker contracted covid19. Im pleased to report that they now have covid19 the illness in their rear view mirror today. The secretary will be interviewed as i noted by Tallmadge Boston Talmich in his own right is a high persona in texas and across the nation he is a leading trial lawyer. He is known in our profession as what we call a Goto Lawyer or a super lawyer. Tallmadge is also a historian and he has a special focus
Baker the third as you know, Secretary Baker was a powerhouse in Washington Dc in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united States Secretary of state and also further served for united States President s over the course of three decades. Secretary baker was scheduled to be our Capstone Speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. However, he and mrs. Baker contracted covid19. Im pleased to report that they now have covid19 the illness in their rear view mirror today. The secretary will be interviewed as i noted by Tallmadge Boston Talmich in his own right is a high persona in texas and across the nation he is a leading trial lawyer. He is known in our profession as what we call a Goto Lawyer or a super lawyer. Tallmadge is also a historian and he has a special focused interest on the qualities of leadership in the public in the private square recently. He authored a book in which he sat down with president ial historians to examine the qualities of
Fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout Class Today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th Century Isc what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of prostivism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the political party that it was named for. Others define it much more broadly. So for me in this class this is how im going to define progressivism. In the broadest sense, progressivism was the way a whole generation of americans defined themselves politically and how they addressed the problems of the new century in what i think we can all agree begins to look like modern america. Theyre interested in reforming a messy society that is new and fundamental ways while trying to keep some