his chief rival in this connest was chief justice warren burger. although most scrawlers a great taft as an average president -- most scholars rate taft an average president, he haa -- his vision and leadership and planning the house for the beloved court are unparalleled. he was an unhappy chief executive, having been persuaded to run for president by theodore roosevelt, who launched a third- party candidacy against him in 1912. it allowed woodrow wilson to win the presidency. as the court's sole former president to have served on the bench, he is the only person ever to have engineered his own future appointment from the white house. biographers suggesttthat president taft promoted white to the chief opposition rather than juice because the white was only 48 in would probably serve long enough to preclude a future president from appointing taft as a chief justice. president warren harding fulfilled taft highest aspiration to become chief justice. chief justice taft began participating in every presidential decision to fill vacancies on this court

when burger was the chief justice, it was a very unhappy court internally. warren burger was himself a rather small person, not one of the current giants in the court history. but he was not able to keep a court that was reasonably agreeable with each other. there was a lot of backbiting that was going on there. in fact, we felt it in the press room because he had a public information officer whom he assigned the task of collecting and writing down notes about what the reporters said as they stood around in the court room. when this public information officer was succeeded by another public information officer she discovered all these notes of what the study reporters had said, standing around waiting for opinions. warren did not trust us. one time, we offered to pay rent in the press room because we thought if we paid rent then we would actually be better off, but burger immediately said we will not allow you to pay rent because renters have rights. [laughter] i think john is exactly on point about the court that sat together for 11 years. they did get alon

chief justice warren burger decided he wanted to make that the theme of the room, and so the court had donated a portrait of the famous litigant in the case of marbury vs. madison back in 18 03. chief justice burger said, "we need to get a companion portrait for that'," said they literally are on the wall. >> that was probably the most famous case this court ever decided. the idea of judicial review. john marshall made it explicit in the case of marbury vs. madison. >> there is no one case that says as much to a justice about what it is like to be a justice, because marbury vs. madison is the embodiment of judicial reviee. there is no quotation in all of the history of supreme court writing that justices more prefer to repeat then the phrase which says "it is emphatically the power and the duty of the judiciary to say what the lot is." that quote from john marshall in marbury vs. madison. >> we call him "the great chief." he was really the first person who took the job seriously. he established the court's position as one of the three coequal branches of the government. i get to initia

. -- chief justice warren burger. his visson and leadership in planning this study are unparalleled, but sadly he did not live to see his completion. he was an unhappy chief executive having been persuaded to run for president by theodore roosevelt who then lost a third- 1912. that allowed woodrow wilson to win the presidency. as the sole president to serve on the bench, taft is the only person ever to engineer his future appointment from the white house. several biographers suggest that president tapped suggested white to the bench instead of use because white was only 48 and would serve a longgenough to as a justice. president warren harding nominated president taft. once the ascended, chief justice taft began participating in every presidential decision to fill vacancies on this court.%+ he said, i look forward to having you on the bench with me. president harding was happy to place on the supreme court his brilliant friend from their days in the u.s. senate. harding's next choice was his second pick. the president

just days after russian president medvedev and president obama met in washington and shared a cheese burger and pledged to reset relations between the two countries. at the state department today officials said that effort would continue despite the spy case. >> they're moving towards a more trusting relationship. we're beyond the cold war. i think our relations absolutely demonstrate that. but as i say, i don't think anyone was hugely shocked to know that some vestages of old attempts to use intelligence are still there. >> brown: russian prime minister vladimir putin brought up the arrest today in a meeting with former president bill clinton. >> he came to moscow at the right time. the police at home are going out their way putting people in prison. that's their job. i'm counting on the fact that the trend in the relationship will not be harmed by these events. >> brown: average russians reacted to the news. >> this is the way it always was during the cold war. thanks to mr. putin this is all still being continued now as it suits our country. that's what i think. as far as our mutual rela

they will be like, it is not as good as the burgers and chicken i used have and the tuna was delicious. but bring it on. i had the jellyfish and a cockroach and we shot up an ally in meeting it. is how people adopt in prison. if i went to prison, i would kill myself that people don't. they are like, i am not homosexual but i am here. i am querulous get used to it. >> larry: for someone not prepared to not, your honor all. i guess is bill marr. gerri weintraub is here friday night. it is a riot. a great book out. and this is, friday night. and the wailing dogs, you're going to like them thursdaypeerk they stop the people who kill whales. the whale worse. they go out and stop the japanese killing whales they are here thursday. now we will be right back with bill markair cannot go away. just got better. - good stuff, craig. - we're dating. [ announcer ] snapple. the best stuff on earth just got better. [ laughter ] [ slamming ] [ engines revving ] [ tires screech ] [ engine revving ] [ male announcer ] before you take it on your road trip... we take it on ours. [ children laughing ] this

at the only mcdonald's in whitman county, the salad menu isn't served, so it'sburg burgers, mcnuggets and the like. >> the variety of the foods that are available are poor-quality nutrients. >> reporter: dr. al rausa is the district health officer for 18 counties in northwest mississippi. he's been working as a public health official in the delta for 40 years. >> i had a malnutrition problem when i arrived, i have a malnutrition problem now. back then it was the absence of food or the unavailability of food that was the problem. and now i've got this abundance of food. >> reporter: the problem now, rausa says, is that the food people eat is loaded with calories and fat and they're leading more sedentary lives. medical studies showed that people who live in these food deserts have higher rates of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes than those in areas served by mainstream grossers. >> we can't tell people to buy fresh food if there's no place to buy it, right? >> reporter: first lady michelle obama has zeroed in on food deserts as part of her signature campaign to

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the leaders got to showcase their new warmer relations, even breaking bread over burgers in arlington, virginia. afterward, they returned to the white house for further talks across a modest agenda. >> when i came into office, the relationship between the united states and russia had drifted perhaps to its lowest point since the cold war. there was too much mistrust and too little real work on issues of common concern. that did not serve the interests of either country or the world . >> (translated): we made our world safer, i must say this. but this is not enough for bilateral economic ties to change. and this visit is generally mostly aimed at achieving these goals. we are ready for that now. our american partners are ready for the same thing. >> sreenivasan: underscoring that point, president obama announced the u.s. will support mass cow's entry into the world trade organization without conditions. >> russia belongs in the w.t.o. that's good for russia, it's good for america, and it's good for the world economy. >> (translated): we hope and we have stated this that the work will b

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at present, there are busts of all of the chief justice's including chief justice burger. rehnquist has not yet been added. in a sense, you're walking through the entire histooy of the court. >> the story of the court is defined not only by its achievements over time but also through continuing editions of the sessa justices to the bench. >> the white house operator tells you that the president is on the line. i have my cell phone in my right hand. i have my left hand over my chest. i'm trying to calm my beating heart. the president got on the phone and said to me, judge, i would selection to be the next associate justice of the united states supreme court." and i said to him, "-- i caught my breath and started to cry. president." >> judge sotomayor, are you prepared to take the oath? please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, a seminar, do solemnly swear -- i, sonia sotomayor work, do solemnly swear. >> justice white what said win wwen the court gets a new its seeds by in order of seniorrty so there will be a shift there. fundamentally, it can cause you to look

the comments -- warren burger used to make some very unpleasant comments about women in some of his comments to other people straps. but on the whole, the process is a really remarkably admirable process. you read to draft opinions and see the joined memos or the dissent memos. you come away from it and you say, "that is really the way it ought to be done." we do not get to see the conference's at which justice kennedy loses it. and i think it would be very nice if now and then we could have a look into the conference room and watched it happen, which is not going to happen, but the whole process is one, it seems to me, that the american people can have real fake it works pretty good. >> speaking of looking into the court, it is just about time for your questions. i'll have my colleagues at either side of the room has a wireless microphone over to you. one of the most frequently asked questions we have c-span is "when it will cameras going to the supreme court?" since the year 2000, c-span, along with other media organizations, have occasionally petitioned the court for a same- the release o

we're talking about the burgers, talking about tea parties, talking about all those other organizations that make america what it is, so which one is which? because after world war ii, the marshall islands, you know, we were used as a place to place the atomic bomb -- host: we are going to leave it there. thanks very much for your call. in the survey, is there information that talks about or ask questions of the people you are surveying, their opinions on particular political groups or political organizations, parties inside the united states, or is it just the united states as a whole that you are asking them about? host: we have not typically asked about parties or groups within the u.s.. we typically ask about american foreign policy, the u.s. as a whole, those types of things. we have talked about popular culture. we also find that things like american science and technology -- that is very popular. american-style business practices are popular in many parts of the world, including parts of the middle east where the u.s. does not get very positive ratings overall. we look at differe