Similarly, i was a professional woman in the 70s and part of the movement to try to get the president to try to appoint more women to the federal courts at all much less the Supreme Court. So when Sandra Day Oconnor was appointed to the Supreme Court it meant the world to me. I was so hoping it would happen just like she said. She said it is okay to be the first. But i do not want to be the last. And i was watching her because i was so many first. And i didnt want to have her fail. I wanted to be the next one. Two; they were really my offensive lines. Host when will we see a woman chief justice . Guest there was talk of making oconnor chief justice. She would have been great. She was so fair and widely respected. John robert is a young man so i want to say in probably 40 years. Host next call is jay in toledo, ohio. We are listening and you are on with Linda Hirshman. We are talki about the Supreme Court. Caller thank you. Linda, you have such a wonderful sense of humor. It is so great
So as we unfold here today and evolve through this process let me say on the outside that usually when i am on some show, i am sitting in your chair. Today im asking the question so bear with me as we unravel this or peel this onion. As i went through the book i saw so many interesting things about how we get to a better chemistry. How we get get to a better civility. How do we get things done in washington. So let me ask you on the outset, why write the book . Thats a great question. I think we write the book in part because we love the institution and we want to see it continue to thrive and progress and be what it can be and what our Founding Fathers envisioned for it. But that takes work and leadership, takes adjustment. I worry today that because of the dysfunction, we are at a crisis point. We are going to have to take some corrective action to bring it back. This institution is only as good as the people who sir. I think sometimes we take it for granted. We have to remind the Am
I want to introduce our panelists. We will go in the order listed in your program. So this panel and National Heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. Good morning everybody. This is a jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. Please make sure to introduce yourself and say hello. Sittingf rad officer is in the front, will also be presenting tomorrow at a plenary session. Please make sure you attend her talk. We are here to tell you about nprs historical archives in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a new building. Always valued research and archives. We have had an expertly organized audio archive going back to the beginning of all ofngs considered at the end may 1989. One of the first persons they hired was a researcher exclusively to help in the newsroom. Having said all of that, we h
Dead but not the past, is a personal favorite of mine kerry as she well knows. Also edited an addition edition of a travel account which unfortunately is outofprint and unavailable. Carriey knows as knows, i have given a talk on her first book i think it many times as you have. [laughter] branch of history that so many people do not know about and since we are in the postwar sesquicentennial timeframe, it is especially important. Coeditedney also with gallagher, our last speaker, a book about the overland campaign. We keep it all in the family here at the museum. Chance today if you are interested in getting that book, you can get both editors to sign it at the same time. It is available for sale after the break. Today, Carrie Janney will be speaking about the civil war, and the spanishamerican war and the limits of National Reconciliation. Ladies and gentlemen, one of my personal favorites, Carrie Janney. [applause] dr. Janney thank you to waite so much. It is always a treat to get to
Beautiful for his country, people who are inspired by their spiritual beliefs, individual liberty, and rule of law, and our campaign represents that. You do not achieve that by terry people down by tearing people down. I believe that is why this campaign will win, because it better represents the party. Myink his background parents experienced a similar thing after world war ii lithuania. My dad loves his country. It was culture shock. Mrs. Cruz sure. [indiscernible] enjoy your trip. Mrs. Cruz thank you. Takinging forward to him the oath of office. Mrs. Cruz thank you so much. Nice to meet you. I told my husband we are going to be shaking the hand of the next first lady. Mrs. Cruz the voters will decide. Are your daughters able to get out . Doingruz they were school work today, so we have to have structure. [indiscernible] wait for we will get family and friends mrs. Cruz it is a wellinformed community. It is. Absolutely. S, [indiscernible] nothing wrong with that. [indiscernible] we h