Former law clerk. He delivered remarks as part of the award presentation. Ladies and gentlemen, we meet to celebrate Justice Anthony kennedy. [applause] and as lincoln said at gettysburg, it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this perhaps no justice in the history of the Supreme Court has been more associated with the word liberty than Justice Kennedy. Called thet it is tie goes to freedom, Justice Kennedy on liberty. In 554 Supreme Court countless speeches, he thelessly returns to importance of Civic Education for equal liberty for all. The importance of individual liberty and speech and preserving civil dialogue and debate, and the importance of equal dignity and freedom. s first theme is Civic Education for all because he is always and everywhere, a teacher. It aims with Reese Witherspoons commencement address and legally blind. I watched it on youtube and it is a fine speech. Reese witherspoon concludes that with no offense to aristotle, passion is a key ingredient
Mayor buttigieg sounds like we are ready for that . [cheering] mayor buttigieg i think it cannot come soon enough. It is going to happen one way or the other. It will be a relief when it does. Putting the chaos behind us. Putting the corruption behind us. Putting the tweets behind us. [laughter] mayor buttigieg but honestly, the reason i am asking you to picture this is not just to give us something to look forward to. The country will be better off only no longer have a divider occupying the oval office. That is beginning of the work that must come next. If you could picture what it will be like on this in this country on that day, the sun will come up in the United States that is even more divided than we are right now. Even more polarized, even more torn up over politics. With everything we have been through, with everything we are about to go through, that day our country will be exhausted from fighting, and more in need of unity than ever. And yet, Something Else is also going to
Enduring war. And that as we needed to undertake a serious study of the relationship between war and society. Moreover, it seemed that few could argue that war had not made an impact on our national character. On who we are as americans. Startedram we built from the mission that we would examine the social moral, and cultural aspects of how societies go to war, how they experience war, and how they deal with wars consequences. Programbelieve that our in applications understanding the implications of war by examining the conflict of the social if not human phenomenon. We wanted to take a serious approach to the studying the problems posed by war. Our vision was for a Chapman University to become a National Resource for practitioners. A Program Designed with the ultimate aim of helping understand the war and costs of war around the globe. That vision is on full view this evening. As we examine three american wars, vietnam, afghanistan, and iraq. From those who have fought in them. Each h
20. Why are americans Young Diane Young at alarming rates . We will open up our phone lines for you this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or central time zones, call 202 7488001. Text us at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media, http twitter. Com cspanwj social media. Lets set the groundwork, first. Im going to read a little bit from report here so that you can see what we are going to talk about. Heres the article. Now i want to read from you a little bit from the actual report itself. Here is what it says. Hear from thes director of the cdc, dr. Robert redfield, discussing why the opioid outbreak is a crisis here in washington, d. C. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the outbreak of our time is the opioid outbreak. Im going to stress that i think there are a lot of lessons for us from what we learned in the Ebola Outbreak. We dont need to wait for the perfect solution to the challenges