American history at the university of texas in san antonio and is my tag says im on the Advisory Board and im an author and so it is wonderful. Im also a veteran. I was colonel for a year when i taught at the citadel, but today i went to say that im so pleased that were witnessing a great reunion a great kind of reckoning coming up against we have been meeting virtually for the past few months, but isnt it great to be back in person and have an afternoon where we explore such wonderful topics as race and lincoln and leadership in lincoln. Im pleased to report that my intuition is that we will have many more of these wonderful gatherings. And so we have to think historically and in thinking back i wanted to say Jonathan White gave us a wonderful bulletin, so look at what the topics were and in doing it. I see that the chief borrowed my punching lincoln for his collection, and maybe its down in starkville because i gave my first talk here in 2003 lincoln our mortal president , but more s
miller. you are retiring. you could say it s not my fight, but you care. you can tell in the passion of your words that you care about the american worker. thank god for people that do. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. chairman yields back his time. chairman from orlando, florida, is recognized. thank you. i have one thing to say. flawed 01:38:01 unidentified process produces a flawed product every single time. i m sad we are here, where we are. it is what it is. chairman yields back his time. i did not get a chance, i will waive my right to i want to say thank you. thank you to each of you, mr. miller. chairman klein thank you for much. chairman rogers, i hope our paths cross again, god speed. we are going to recess. call to chair at the end of the last thank you mr. chairman. come to order. thank you very much. distinguished panel that is here. i will go to to where the light comes on. you will recognized. thank you. i appreciate declining to intervene
several books including the law of the land: a grand tour of our constitutional republic. i akhil was voted most popular professor at yale. at least he is my most popular professor. and you are all here because he is your most popular professor. before we welcome the popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or electronic devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. thank you. [applause] dr. amar: good evening. welcome. thank you so much for coming. york historical society. we re going to be talking about the supreme court and we will be talking about these supreme court history, but also talking about the new york angle on all of this, because this is the new york historical society. and, yes, why is this night different from all others? is one thought. it is really only this week it has become, i think, pretty apparent that the upcoming presidential election will be a subway series between [laughter] two new: not just yorkers, but two people h
excellence and is the author of several books including the law of the land: a grand tour of our constitutional republic. i think that akhil was voted most popular professor at yale. at least he is my most popular professor. and you are all here because he is your most popular professor. before we welcome the popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or electronic devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. thank you. [applause] dr. amar: good evening. welcome. thank you so much for coming. this is the new york historical society. we re going to be talking about the supreme court and we will be talking about these supreme court history, but also talking about the new york angle on all of this, because this is the new york historical society. and, yes, why is this night different from all others? a well, here is one thought. it is really only this week it has become, i think, pretty apparent that the upcoming presidential election will be a subway
presidents done over the years, and compares the criteria and results. his class is about an hour and 10 minutes. : four scores are fathers said, with those words, there was a battlefield not far from where we sit today. the brilliance of those words is not recognized at the time. in fact lincoln was not the featured speaker at gettysburg. everett,tually edward a senator from massachusetts who spoke for two hours well lincoln waited to give his closing words. today we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of presidential speech and history. the fact that people did not see the speech that way at the time, lincoln was not the featured speaker points to the fact that lincoln s greatness was not recognized at the time in general. we have to remember that when lincoln became president, he had not served in public office for 10 years. of dress, hisyle speaking, his self-education, all that meant that lincoln was looked upon with some degree of condesc