this agency going to help us avoid tragedies like september 11th, but also compile this agency will fare in 20 or 30 years and what it will be trying to do, who will be working there, if it's ready to challenge -- handle the challenges of future which is a much more complicated question that ultimately the leaders of the agencies working together with commerce and the president have to take on the issue. >> what is your washington experience and what you teach your stanford? >> i teach administrative law which is basically a course about who controls the government and has the power to do what and the rights the people have. antique legislation, public programs give written, have a legislature oversees the executive branch. i've taught class is an international criminal law and international security, how we protect ourselves, cyber security, weapons proliferation. i have been very lucky in that i have had a kind of parallel career in academia and government. right out of law school and worked at the department of the treasury for a couple of years. in the part of treasury debt is with e

today you would be at the 11th street bridge within the basic fare mistake through sutherland's and then it shows up a lot. in to this day we're not sure what they're doing there. [laughter] but with 1887 this is the historic district with 1978 visa the original streets founded or uniontown so the names of the first 14 presidents, a pearson pearson, jefferson street fillmore and you can see frederick douglass property is the biggest in this town and today a national park site but this is about nine and a half acres. and grover cleveland negative chile gets lost to come up to the home and says to the little boy whose home is that? he says as frederick douglass actually he served under cleveland but but they knew they would get to heaven. [laughter] but here is where i get salacious and the scandalous. this is the frederick douglass first wife. people said before i knew he had an affair i read it on the internet. [laughter] there is the true story of what really happened in every is a pivotal and important without her there would be no frederick douglass sam born free in maryland's 1813, m

we are paying for the plane fares. we should be told you know what are the generally theme of discussion. who was there? whats is the kind of feeling and the mood music of the moment? and the bank says, oh, central bank said we need a place to meet in secret. if you put everything on the record and nobody will put it on record. they'll put a camera in on youtube and nobody will say a word. the central bank is like you need to change this. they give you a ridiculous snare yes -- scenario. you need to talk in private. that's fair enough. they scrolled a press conference after the meetings, they could release the minutes, you know, not detailed minutes but the feeling of the meeting, you know, this or that. they could tell us who was there. they could make a step toward trap participant sincerity. i-- transparency. i think that's important. among most people the feeling of international finance how it's run is run by the guys in suits. that jet in and tell countries so you to do this or that. where is the mandate? if you

happy about that and we certainly worked hard but to have columbia university embrace the harlem will fare as a possibility and a conversation of what is so, really makes me happy. it validates us in a very different way and along with that, also, the corporate community hears the voice, t mobile is supporting the book fair this year and they understand the shift in how information is delivered so they understand mobile, they understand access, they understand books, they understand reading, they understand access to information so we are very happy to have t mobile also join us today. i would like to introduce first larry -- clarice from the shattered center --shamboug sender. >> it is my pleasure. i am the programs manager, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the schaumburg center, those who may not know, we're one of the four research libraries of the new york public library and our mission is to collect, preserve and share the wonderful history and culture of people of african descent. our collection holds ten million items divided across different divisions so please come back and vie

we're paying for their salaries and other plane fares. we should be told what did general themes of discussion and to was there and the kind of feeling. the mood music of the moment. and the bank says, oh, the central bankers say we need a place to speak in secret. if you put everything on the record and no one will say anything. you don't want to put a camera there. put it on youtube. no one will say a word. look, because we are a central banker. you need to change this. they sort of give you the ridiculous and area. you know. and i'm not saying this put a camera in there and put it on youtube. central bankers need to be able to talk in private. fair enough. but they could have a press conference after these meetings. they could release the minutes, you know, not detailed minutes of use said what, but the feeling of the meeting, this or that. they could tell us who was there. they could make a step toward transparency. in the thing that would be something that is very important because the whole -- among most people the feeling of global

this gathering was in john adams words, a faring of strangers. at one point he said, the dozen ambassadors of the dozen most belligerent powers in europe have more in common than do the delegates to this continental congress and that's their situation as they came together in september of '74. but day after day after day, after their deliberations, first in carpets hall and then in the pennsylvania statehouse, they go to the city tavern and eat and drink, and get to know one another. with a few exceptions, john adams never really respected john dickinson. with a few exceptions, they really did come, even when they disagreed on important issues, to have some respect for their colleagues. i'm old enough to remember a time in washington when everett dirksen and lyndon johnson might disagree on the senate floor but they would get together in the evening and work out a deal or tip o'neill or ronald reagan, even. so there is, there is something i think could do something about that, not have these folks fly home every thursday afternoon and raise money

we're paying for their salaries, we're paying for their plane fares. youyou know, we should be told,u know, what are the general themes of discussion, who was there and what is the kind of feeling of, you know, what's the mood music of the moment? and the bank says, oh, central bankers say, oh, we need a place to speak in secret, and if you put everything on the record, then no one will say anything, and you don't want to put a camera in and put it on youtube and then no one will say a word. and i say look, you know, because what are central bankers like if you say you need to change? they sort of give you the ridiculous scenario. and i'm not saying you have to put a camera in there and put it on youtube. obviously, central bankers need to be able to talk in private, that's fair enough. but they could have a press conference after these meetings, they could release the minutes. not detailed minutes of who said what, but, you know, the feeling of the meeting was, you know, that this or that that. they could tell us who was there. you know, they could ma

so i knew that people did occasionally lifted beatles fares. i thought, maybe i could find two or three in interview them and get medical and that. and that is the way it would have played out, except for the fact that i could not find any. the first place cycle of was the department of veterans affairs in washington d.c. and i believed that they would have a printout from the waiting with the veterans' names in their ages, their addresses, phone numbers, and that they would gladly share with me. this proved not to be the case. i was told the they did not have any such database, and even if they had they could not have shared with me. in fact, several years later when i was a few years into the search i started getting calls from people at the hospital asking me to share my list with them. i moved out. i started telling local hospitals. nursing-home spirit any place i could think of. always the result was the same. we haven't seen a world war i veteran ten, 15, 20 years. they always signed off with with us know if you find any. and after a few

when new information emerges, to find out for example, that redhaired people don't fare well with drugs being tested, they have to tell you of the. so you have to get this constant information to the reality is that informed consent is under assault in this country. it is diminishing very quickly in my opinion and again a very occult on the shadowy. it's not something gets a lot of attention. the law was rewritten twice in 1990 and in 1996. the federal code of revelations was rewritten to permit people in this country to be constricted to medical research without their consent. not only the law but also customs. medical culture has become the more and more friendly to the idea of conducting research without asking people's permission sometimes or without you them the full benefit of informed consent. we have to be very diligent about, and is something that i think we should be actively seeking to redress. we should be tring to elima these holes in informed consent can because they are quite dangerous to informed consent is more than a philosophical extraction. african-americans -- resea

apparently, mcarthur the military hero fares a great deal better than mcarthur the politician because when the republicans meet that summer at their convention to pick a candidate, among 1,046 delegate votes cast, douglas mcarthur receives one. [laughter] i'd like now to talk about how fdr regarded general eisenhower. you know, after eisenhower became president he was caricatured as a man who mangled the english language, a man who was inarticulate. and the interesting thing is this irony, that when he was first brought into the war plans department by general marshall soon after pearl harbor, ike initially made his name by the cogenesee -- cojencs, and sound papers he did many of which went before president roosevelt. so clearty the obfuscation was a smoke screen to conceal the things that he did not want to say. now, as i said earlier in my talk, everybody knows that president roosevelt would back george marshall to be the supreme commander when the time came to invade europe. it would have been the logical capstone to george marshall's career. even the president himself pointed out

. >> the fare fellow endorsement which carries weight in the conservative circle. for the republican women they are in a position where those issues are not the core issues. they may not even want to focus on them. delicate kelly, what she wants to focus on his foreign-policy and military issues. you get drawn in some times on these issues, having a very hard time london control. she wishes that would go way, the discussion of that. being a spokesperson. if they do that, you draw attention to yourself on the she may not want to and the press might portray them as women acting against women, and they don't want that. so you see actually over and over kind of the same type of story playing out. so with the ledbetter fair pay act the story that played out in the press was, well, it took all the republican women voting for the lead better bill. the republican men except for specter, did not. there was really more complication behind it. republicans knew that there health committee ranking member could not be the one to offer the legislation. they knew as a woman to a g

now, how are women faring today? i'm not going into that. but i'd like to point out that in this period when we're changing from print-oriented culture to digital culture so forth. very idea of journalism itself is being discussed in redefined. women are playing important roles, but they are still more likely than not to be working for male superiors. the roosevelt library helped chart the course of women in washington journalism, due t the extraordinary career of eleanor, who, in the opinion of many, was the single most important woman of the mid-20th century. we think of her today as the past breaking first lady from 1933 to 1945, and then as the guiding spirit behind the universal declaration of human rights, when she served as u.s. representative to the united nations, from 1945 to 1952. but we tend to forget that she was one of the most successful washington women journalists herself. in terms of her newspaper column, magazine articles, radio broadcasts, not to mention all of her paid speeches. when she was in the white house. equally i

when new information emerges, if they find out, for example, that red haired people don't fare well with the drug, they have to tell you that so you have to get this constant information. the reality is informed consent is under assault in this country. it is diminishing very quickly in my opinion, and, again, very occult, shadowy way. it's not something that gets a lot of attention. but the law was rewritten twice in 1990 and 1996 the federal code of regulation was written to permit people in this country to be conscripted into medical research without their consent. not only the law but also custom. medical culture, has become the more and more friendly to the idea of conducting research without asking people's permission sometimes, or without giving them the full benefit of informed consent. so it's a myth we can afford come place sense si -- come place sense si, and something i think we should be actively seeking to redress. elim holes in informed content. informed consent is more than a philosophical abstraction. african-americans with our history of research, vulnerable, informed c