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Well, good morning, everyone or good afternoon. Its its a great pleasure to welcome Justice Stevens to georgetown law school. This is this is a new tradition that were starting today and it grows out of two programs that weve had in the past few years. So a few years ago Justice Sotomayor spoke to the first year class. And last year Justice Kagan spoke to the graduating class. And so a number of the faculty were thinking what would be a good new tradition would be to have a leading member of the bench and bar come in at the start of the year to talk to our first year students about their caree...

Case in the United States now, as we know it is, why are we having news conferences like this, and why are we also afraid . If theres no chance of an outbreak, what is it about this disease that frightens you and us . Ok, so we are having the press conference because we need to get information out because theres a lot of fear, and the reason theres a lot of fear is that there are many things when you have outbreaks its the unknown, the cataclysmic nature of it, mainly, it is acute. It kills in a high percentage, and it kills quickly. That in and of itself almost intuitively makes people fright...

Then q a with jeanettea coal director of the Smithsonian Museum of african art. Then your calls and comments on washington journal. Retired Supreme Court justice jeanpaul stevens spoke with Georgetown University law students wednesday on his life, legal career, and the Supreme Court. Justice steevepbs has a new book, stevens has a new book. In the book he outlines six ways the constitution should be amended to protect democracy. Justice stevens is the second longest serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court. He retired in 2010. This is just over an hour. Well, good morning, everyone ...

The event brings together ideas authors, and innovators to look at the latest trends in technology, culture, and business. Here is kerry shteyngart talking about his immigration status. In 1980, being rushing russian was the worst thing that you can be. I was sentenced to eight years of hubris school that for a crime i did not commit. When i was sentenced there, it was so bad being a russian, being a commie, i had to pretend that i was born in east berlin. I was trying to convince german kids there that i was german. [laughter] 10 years later, i show up at oberlin college, this small Marxist C...

Springfield has been poring through those archives looking ents for new documents. They found some remarkable documents not only to lincoln but new and Important Documents by lincoln. Oak Ridge Cemetery is the lino location whereis p the university oflled ab illinois professor Michael Burlingame has joined us. His book is called abraham e to lincoln a life. T. Its about 2,000 pages. Be sure to buy it. You dont have to read it. But be sure to buy it. Thanks for being with us here on American History tv. Thank you very much. With live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan and the senate here on c...