State started to adopt statutes and gave more discretion. Certainly commonlaw, certainly at the time of the founding the court noted that typically the verdict came after the sentence. That is just not true. We do not have the right to change history. It isnt true. Isnt true. If you look at the very first criminal provisions that were inactive by congress, congress, the first congress, it was not determined. Your honor, for many crimes serious crimes, even for some that today we would consider not so serious, usually the penalty was death. So there was this close relationship. The court has called it a close relationship between the verdict and sentencing. We look at that together with the way the process was conducted shows that the right was created to cover the whole proceeding through the imposition or pronouncement a sentence. There are no further questions. Thank you counsel. The case is submitted. Tonight on book to be a prime time, words and comments about the structure. Beginn
You can talk about things that went wrong, but you could communicate love for the idea of a service. The extraordinary variety of people went there. We have people with great physical disabilities who are president for longer than anybody else but cannot stand on their own. We have people who are just [inaudible] [inaudible] history disappear and my thought is the word history is mostly made up of the word story plus a hello. We are to be telling our children interesting stories. Host and ken will be with us to take our calls. Well put the numbers up on the screen. They moved up to almost parity with lincoln. Lincoln took care of the greatest crisis. The depression and the Second World War. He is very interesting. You can win a trivia contest. He won three National Elections in a row. But as is the peculiarities of the american democracy is the electrical vote that matters. As they found in 1876 and Grover Cleveland found out when he won the popular vote he won the popular vote again.
Century. When what happened at the other end of pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill metal mattered much more than the executive is doing. And the powers werent associated with the culture personality. Now we live in a media culture. Theres something manageable about the singularly of the presidency and Congress Seems willing to go along with this they have moved everything to the other end of pennsylvania. Before we get started here we were talking about the gettysburg address. What were you saying. In the age of media even with wonderful glorious cspan whether we know how important it was. It would be very clear that only you would cover it and chances are that the main networks in the cable might say that there was a dedication of a cemetery but i can imagine the cynicism of somebody standing up in front insane while he was talking they try to distract attention from the disastrous military campaign out west. We would never hear it. But then with the tsunami of all of the information
Preeminent historians and biographers. In the recently released, informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all 45 first ladies, their lives ambitions and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. This series and the book provides an up close historical look at these fascinating women who survive the scrutiny of the white house sometimes at great personal cost while supporting their families and famous husbands and sometimes changing history. Our program tonight will feature a live discussion with some of these contributing historians who we will hear about shortly. To moderate the program we are pleased to welcome susan swain the moderator of cspans first ladys influence and image. Susan swain is president and cozy e o of cspan sharing responsibilities for all operations of the Public Affairs cable network. She oversees programming and marketing for cspans three Television Channels and cspan radio and she helped launch the washington journal booktv and Ame
And you will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program we are pleased to welcome susan swain, the moderator for cspan first ladies influence and image. Susan swain is president and coceo cspan sharing responsibility for all operations of the Public Affairs cablenet work. She oversees programming and marketing for cspan3 Television Channels and cspan radio. She helped launch the washington journal, booktv, it American History tv. She has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history series such as american president s, the lincolndouglas debate and american writers your for over 30 years she has been one of cspans principal on camera interviewers. Most recently on april 14 first ladies was released as a book by Public Affairs books featuring a collection of images from the Television Series. It is the ninth book susan ness edited for cspan and Public Affairs. And as you noticed when you came in, we will have copies of the book for sale after the program and sh