Welcome 2 of americas leading election law scholars for a discussion about the constitution and the electoral system. We advertised this as a show about how to fix americas elections and several of you noted maybe thats not the best verb. Our goal is precisely the opposite, to figure out how to vent American Elections from being fixed theres a wide ranging discussion of the two books that both of our panelists have written and about constitutional issues in the news relating to the coronavirus and the electoral system. Please join us next week for a super discussion of another book that is by you all 11 and its on his new book about how to restore trust in the american institutions. Thats next tuesday and you can learn more about that program at Constitution Center. Org live and we will be taking questions throughout the program you can put your questions in the q a thoughts and i will just offer them to our panelists when it seems right or the discussion so please be interactive. Thes
Pleasure to put on my constitutional reading glasses you can tell i am not actually outside because i have to put them on before i do the introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of introducing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution c
Reflection. Do a little reflecting. Today is day 64 since we close down new york. Only 64 days. Feels like a lifetime. Only 64 days. , the totalbers hospitalization rate is down. That is good news. 9786. Below 10,000, which is a big deal for us. 18,have to go back to may 19th to get near that number. March, im sorry. The total number of hospitalizations is down. The number of intubations is down. Intubation is generally bad news. Is 789. Er of new cases that is good news. We were hovering at around 900, 1000. That may be a reporting anomaly because this is over the weekend and the weekend reporting tends to be a little different. Put inporting system we place, this never happened before were hospitals were reporting on a daily basis. Hospitals have a lot going on. I would not bet the farm on any of these specific oneday numbers, but the overall trend is good. The number that is the most important number that we look at, which is still tremendously distressing is the number of deaths. 2
Introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law in University History professor at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution center. Edward thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. Jeffrey it is just great. I a
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