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AGENDA To register call (845) 486-1966. Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Professor Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Co-Chair, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Former President George H. W. Bush (via video). 1:15 - 3:00 p.m. Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt and the 1930s Supreme Court The consequential Supreme Court decisions, appointments and presidential politics of the 1930s. Chair: Alan Brinkley, Provost, Columbia University; Professors William E. Leuchtenburg and G. Edward White; Author and Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter. 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. Shaping the Modern Court: Presidents Truman through Clinton Insider accounts of Supreme Court appointments and how the appointment process has changed over the past sixty years. Chair: Allen Weinstein; Ambassador C. Boyden Gray; Professors Douglas Brinkley and Laura Kalman. 5:00 p.m. Keynote Address: The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor Monday, November 12, 2007 9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks Sharon Fawcett, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries; The Hon. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York. Moderator for the day: National Public Radio Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg. 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. The Presidency, the Supreme Court and Civil Rights The interactions of Presidents and the Supreme Court on topics relating to race, discrimination, equality and civil rights. Civil rights leader and former Assistant Attorney General Roger Wilkins; Professor David A. Nichols; former Secretary of Education the Hon. Shirley Hufstedler; Professor and former President of the American Civil Liberties Union Norman Dorsen; National Public Radio Senior Correspondent Juan Williams. Lunch Break 12:45 - 2:45 p.m. The Presidency, the Supreme Court and the "Culture Wars" Presidential and Supreme Court concerns and decisions relating to abortion, the death penalty, gay rights, religion and other topics of societal division. The Hon. Michael W. McConnell; Professors Heather Gerken and Michael C. Dorf. 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Supreme Court and Presidential Power Supreme Court adjudication of the limits of executive power under the Constitution, especially in times of war and crisis. Professor John Q. Barrett; former White House Counsel John W. Dean; Author and New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis; former White House Counsel Beth Nolan. 5:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. |
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