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American history textbook, but if you dig a little bit deeper, theres an incredible history just beneath the surface. Lindsay, also a White House Historical association historian and new in the role there. Were going to spend some time with both of you learning about your work and also about the association. So im going to ask you to give the elevator speech about the association itself, how it got started and what its mission is. Sure, so the association was founded by Jacqueline Kennedy to preserve and protect the history of the white house and then share that history with the American People more broadly. And since then, weve worked on that mission to try and cultivate the white house, the first floor especially, as sort of a museum for the people to tell the story of the white house and the story of the ....
Localities. Now when people talk about federalism, they usually use the term to refer to the balance of power between the federal government and states. But last time we were talking about the debates between state and local level power. And those mirrored debates at the federal level and if anything they were much more contentious because so much governing authority was located in the states and localities. And what were talking about was a system of layered authority. Where states had control over the rights of citizens and the Public Interest. But they gave local areas Broad Discretionary Authority over a wide range of matters involving the Public Interest. So basically the states then handed over all of the discretion over this broad area of the Pu ....
Welcome, welcome. As we just noted, we are here to talk about constitutions and the rule of law. With a particular focus on a few got a rule of law, how do you keep it . How do you nurture it . How do you make it stick . And we got three extraordinarily distinguished panelists to lead these conversations. Each of them is directly involved in the workings of constitutional democracy studying it, thinking about it, writing about it, teaching about it, and in judge gregorys case, actually directly involved in its workings. Let me introduce this triumvirate. Roger gregory is the chief judge of the court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit. And judge gregory has served on that court for 20 years, almost 20 years, and is now the chief judge. He has the distinction of having been nominated for the court by both president clinton and president george w. Bush, and he was confirmed by the senate 931. [laughter] judge gregory is the first afri ....
We have three extraordinary distinguished panelists to lead this conversation. Each of them is directly involved with the workings of constitutional democracy. Studying it, thinking about it, writing about it, teaching about it. And actually directly involved in its workings. Thise introduce triumvirate. Roger gregory is the chief judge thehe court of appeals for Fourth Circuit. He has served on that court for almost 20 years. Has the distinguished distinction of having been nominated for the court by both president clinton and president george w. Bush. He was confirmed by the senate 931 judge gregory is the first africanamerican to serve on the Fourth Circuit. He founded a law firm with the first African American lawyer of virginia. Also have a chair of the professor of law at the university of virginia. He has served ....