Good evening. Its a pleasure to welcome you to the william g. Mcgowan theatre this evening here at the National Archives. And a special welcome to our viewers on cspan and our own youtube channel. Tonights program, womens history on the horizon, the centennial of the womens suffrage in 2020, it is presented in commemoration of womens equality day, 2014, and the 94th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the constitution, which granted women the right to vote. And forever changed the face of the american electorate. Before we begin the bram, i would like to tell you about two upcoming programs that will take place in this theatre. On thursday, august 28 at 7 00 p. M. , awardwinning documentary filmmaker nancy burski will be here to introduce and discuss her latest film afternoon of a fawn. Tanna quill awe claire. The story of a fame prim ma ball rin ma whose career was tragically struck short when she got polio in her early 20s. The most cited legal scholar discuss hi
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Good afternoon. Congratulations it is a big event to publish a book it is a big deal so congratulations. I really love to read this said i thought we would talk about what drew you to the project about Oliver Wendell holmes and the implication for First Amendment issues today then we will throw out there but i was hoping to begin you could read one page from the book, page member for this is actually not thomass writings but it helps to capture very well what he was struggling with what is so great about this book. This is from holmes dissenting opinion in the 1919 case abrams vs. United states. The first case that holmes defends the importance of free speech and that is a turning point in our history of the First Amendment. Incredibly powerful dissent especially the last paragraph that he tries to explain in a philosophical way why it is important why we have a freespeech in did begins in the strange and income grew way as if he makes the case against freespeech, not for its. Persecut
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For several years on the communications commission, also as administrator of the Rural Utility Service and now is head of pcia, the Wireless Infrastructure association which is what, mr. Adelstein . Guest this association represents the company that builds Wireless Networks, basically, the ones that deliver all of that content to your cell phone, your smartphone, your tablet. The big Cell Phone Companies are on there, at t, verizon, sprint, tmobile as well as companies that own and build the cell towers, the antennas that you find in Shopping Malls. All of the equipment thats behind the scenes that makes possible what you see on that little screen. Host so how many cell towers are there in the u. S. Right now this. Guest theres hundreds of thousands of them and, you know, the fact is its hard to keep up with the level of demand that we have for new infrastructure because of the demands that consumers are placing on the infrastructure we have today. Host what are some of the legislative