Would say Historical Perspectives are important and policymaking. But there is much less understanding about how to actually link perspectives to policymaking a when, where, and what context it is appropriate. A series of panels about history and policy with federal historians who are often those closest to policymaking and might have some valuable thoughts to offer. We all appreciate that inside. My name is claire altman, i am the directory of the federal Judicial Center in washington, d c. It is the research and Education Agency and the History Office is responsible to promote programs and work to preserve the history of the judiciary. I am honored to be joined by four other historians. I will introduce them now and will assume since there biographies are relevant that they will fill in if i have missed any key points. Each will speak 57 minutes and then you will have a moderated discussion. I will start to my immediate right. A historian at the state Department Responsible for the F
Would say Historical Perspectives are important and policymaking. But there is much less understanding about how to actually link perspectives to policymaking a when, where, and what context it is appropriate. A series of panels about history and policy with federal historians who are often those closest to policymaking and might have some valuable thoughts to offer. We all appreciate that inside. My name is claire altman, i am the directory of the federal Judicial Center in washington, d c. It is the research and Education Agency and the History Office is responsible to promote programs and work to preserve the history of the judiciary. I am honored to be joined by four other historians. I will introduce them now and will assume since there biographies are relevant that they will fill in if i have missed any key points. Each will speak 57 minutes and then you will have a moderated discussion. I will start to my immediate right. A historian at the state Department Responsible for the F
Everyone agreed many historians would say Historical Perspectives are important and policymaking. But there is much less understanding about how to actually link perspectives to policymaking and when, where, and what context it is appropriate. The National History center thought that in a series of panels about history and policy , federal government historians, who are often those closest to policymaking, might have some valuable thoughts to offer. We all appreciate that insight. My name is claire altman, i am the directory of the federal Judicial Center in washington, dc. It is the research and Education Agency and the History Office is responsible for increasing knowledge about the history of the federal courts, promoting programs on the history of the federal courts, and we work to preserve the history of the judiciary. I am honored to be joined by 4 other federal government historians. I will introduce them now and will assume since their biographies are relevant that they will fi
Come out. So that, for us, was the process of creating the 9 11 commission. So you can imagine that when we finally did create it and it was signed into law by president bush the day before thanksgiving in 2002. For us, that was the beginning again. And this time, we had to meet the commissioners. Who are these people . There were a few bumps in the road along the way and when we got introduced to governor cain and congressman hamilton, we knew that we were in good hands and of course with we met the rest. We have richard and fred fielding. Jamie, jim thompson, unfortunately bob kerry and jjo lehman couldnt be us today. We knew we had great team of people and i had to say at the beginning of the 9 11 commission i couldnt imagine i would be standing here today and be so honored to introduce the remarkable americans. The individuals that not only came together 12 years ago to start their investigation into 9 11, and ten years ago to stand behind the unanimous report. Theyre still here to
For the members the journey started in 93 but for others sooner. I have a thing for dates so january 30th, 1992, i was returning home from boston to d. C. We had been fighting or i should say fighting i should say nicely advocating on behalf of other family members with lawmakers about issues related to the Victim Compensation fund. I was reading an article in the newspaper on the flight home. The article said president bush wanted to only have investigation into the intelligence failures that surrounded 9 11 and not anything else. I thought i was just an average, ordinary citizen who suddenly got caught up in a terrible tragedy like like so many others on september 11th. I couldnt imagine why the government wouldnt want to investigate to see it never happened again. We fought the 9 11 family members for many, many months. We have a lot of stories about that fight. Remember our rally in june, we didnt know d. C. Very well. Having a rally in june didnt send offend warning bells that it