Wearing a royal blue Cubs jacket, she delivered the game ball to the umpires on the field and then visited the broadcast booth where she delivered the following commentary: ―I never thought I would see the day when we stopped teaching civics and government. In September Justice O’Connor visited Wrigley Field in Chicago to attend a Cubs game. Let me read you one newspaper article that illustrates that commitment. But, as our moderator recently wrote in The New York Times, Justice O’Connor basically lives in airplanes, traveling the country in support of her causes. Justice O’Connor retired from the Court in 2005 and has been known to refer to herself as just an unemployed cowgirl. She was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the US Senate, 99 to zero, making her the first female in our nation’s history to serve on the highest court.
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General, and in 1974 ran successfully for trial judge, a position she held until she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals. She served as an Arizona Assistant Attorney
She received her BA and law degree from Stanford University before settling in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband. Sandra Day O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas and spent her early childhood on her family’s cattle ranch in Arizona. When only one in seven Americans knows that John Roberts is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but two–thirds can name at least one judge on American Idol, it’s time to re-educate the American public. Today, when two-thirds of Americans can’t name the three branches of government, a rebirth of civic education is needed to insure, as Justice Souter has said, that the nation has judges who stand up for individual rights against the popular will. It didn’t matter if someone were rich or poor, young or old, sensible or foolish, these meetings were governed by fundamental fairness.
He has called those meetings the most radical exercise of American democracy that you can find. Justice David Souter recalls that when he was a boy he learned the lessons of democracy and the functions of the three branches of government at New England town meetings. They are here to discuss their shared passion, the importance of civic education. We are honored to have with us tonight retired Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter. This Forum will be broadcast on WBUR, NECN, the WGBH Forum Network and CSPAN. Bank of America, which is our lead sponsor of the Kennedy Library Forum series, Boston Capital, The Lowell Institute and the Boston Foundation, along with our media sponsors, The Boston Globe, WBUR and NECN.
I would also like to express particular thanks to the friends and institutions that make these Forums possible. Please visit our Web site,, for more information. We count on your support, and if you are not already, I encourage you to become a member of the Library. On behalf of my Foundation colleagues and the Library Director, Tom Putnam, I want to thank all of you for coming this evening. Kennedy Presidential Library and MuseumĭAVID MCKEAN: Good evening.
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