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John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home.
Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for me. I remember when we first met. It was either 1990 or 1991, and I was a baby Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and was in charge of inviting speakers to come to the national convention for the Federalist Society. I decided to take a flyer and invite you to come speak at a program on the overfederalization of crime, and to my amazement, not only did you accept, but from the first time I met you, you insisted that I call you Ed. I never dreamed that at some point in my career, I would have t
They re picky about diamonds at Markman s Jewelers
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 12/30/2020 John Shearer, Shopper News
Markman s has sold jewelry and watches locally for nearly 45 years, and that and its location in a landmark midcentury brick building on busy Kingston Pike have helped it be as noticeable as some of its pieces.
These days, the business is operated by second and third generation members of the Markman families. A little over three years ago, Jeff Markman, a grandson of founder Harold Markman, began helping his father, Steve Markman, run the business after doing consulting and other business-related work in places like Chicago and North Carolina.