Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome provost strom. [applause] good evening. It is my very great pleasure to welcome you to Memorial Church for this years lecture on a Meaningful Life. Honored we are deeply to have as our speaker associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheers and applause] this event, as you may know, has a rich history at stanford. Lecture that in a inry rathbun, a professor the 1930s through the 1950s, decided to give on the last day of his class one spring. The lecture was such a success that it turned into an annual tradition at stanford for many years until professor rathbun retired. It was revised in 2008, supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for Global Community which established the henry and Amelia Rathbun fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year, a rathbun visiting fellow selected to come to stanford to deliver the lecture and spend time with our faculty,
Would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David but your current view is that as long as youre heal
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David but your current view is that as long as youre heal
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David but your current view is that as long as youre heal