Tobi we are at the Michigan History Museum here in downtown lansing. We are part of state government, so our museum tells the story of michigan, all of michigan, including lansing. Today, we will walk through our galleries. The museum is set up, literally a walk through time. You come to the museum. It is at the end of the ice age. We talk about the first Indigenous Peoples that lived here in michigan and go to the end of the 20th century. We are standing in our exhibit it is one we just recently renovated. The focal point is this gigantic mural that is painted. It shows the story of the anishinaabek people through four seasons. One of the things it tells is the advanced society they had before europeans arrived. They had very sophisticated social structures. It was just a little different than the western civilization. They chose to live off of the land and not try to control the land. They spent a lot of their time really working in harmony with the lands to meet all their basic need
I am pleased to welcome you to the first lecture in this years series. We are examining dissents, not majority opinions, different aspects. About youren warned cell phones and apple watches so i will not repeat that but you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the time of our evening. Hosto want to thank our whoice Stephen Breyer against all odds agreed to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice higher is one of the most Justice Breyer is one of the most faithful friends. When we have called on him, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. I want to thank him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. Be too much on his time, so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. He was born in San Francisco and received an ab from stanford, llb from harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 term. After Justice Breyer pursued a teacher teaching
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I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. So he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event, ive done that for ten years or so. It is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the country to have a natio
statement that trump had the irs and other federal agencies investigate two federal officials involved into the case of his campaign ties to russia. quote, president trump questioned whether investigations by the internal revenue service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into mr. strzok or ms. page. i do not know of mr. trump ordering such an investigation. it appeared, however, that he wanted to see mr. strzok and ms. page investigated. kelly s statement was filed thursday in connection with lawsuits, lawsuits we have covered on this program, brought by mr. strzok who was the lead russia investigation and lisa page against the justice department for violating their privacy rights. that s when the trump administration made public text messages between them. like so much of what we now know about the trump presidency, this revelation was found, where do you think? in notes taken by one of his own staffers, likely sitting in front of the resolute desk, listening to