Collection, and was conducted by a former libraryngtb director, timothy nephtally on july 9th, 2018. When you graduate in 1973, what do you expect to be doing in 1974 . Well, i expected to be doing what i started out doing when i graduated, which was to go to work for the Childrens Defense Fund for marion aidalman. B6 and again, i think thats right. I wanted to go to work with her so i moved to cambridge, and began working doing investigations and litigation around issues like the incarceration of juveniles with adults in adult prisons or the efforts to give tax exempt status to private segregated academies so they didnt have to pay taxes. Issues like that. T5, j expanding child care, 2 Getting Better conditions for migrant workers. I mean, thats the kind of work we were doing. And thats what i started doing when i graduated and went right to cambridge to workynjz for he. Please tell us about the call from john dole. This is a very funny series of actions. I was down visiting bill in
Investigations and litigation around issues like the incarceration of juveniles with adults in adult prisons or the efforts to give tax exempt status to private segregated academies so they didnt have to pay taxes. Issues like that. Expanding childcare, Getting Better conditions for migrant workers. Thats the kind of work we were doing. And thats what i started doing when i graduated and went right to cambridge to work for her. Please tell us about the call from john. This is a very funny series of actions. I was down visiting bill in arkansas right around christmas. And bills phone rang and he got a call from john door. And john door said, ive been asked to put together a team of lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether there are grounds for impeachment of president nixon and i have a list of people that im going over with and youre at the top of the list if you would like to come to work. And bill said, well, actually, im going to run for congress. I cant. And
Grandfather. [applause] he founded the store known as book row just around the corner from here a he defied the odds by surviving were all other 48 bookstores were shuttered it was then passed on to my late father to go to the store or to scale and popularity he never that was possible. Now im the owner they said its hard to run the store in this digital age. I want to thank youou to the book Loving Community and this audience for helping us not only survive but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read tonights book watergate girl without drawing a parallelel to todays headlines at the cross roads of the watergatecandal there was a young lawyer barely 30 years old and the only woman on the team to prosecute the highest ranking white house official. A failing marriage losing her house and privacy invaded she fought against the sexist preconceptions to receive the respect afforded to the fale counterparts tonighthts author is msnbc legal and is beginning her career as
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