harvard medical school is not attached to its own hospital. like, for example, stanford medical school is really highly ranked. same goes for johns hopkins goen they've got that incredibly highly ranked medical school, johns hopkins university hospital. also at the university of pennsylvania's hospital inso philadelphia. that's a common setup for big highly-ranked medical schools but that is not how it works for harvard. harvard is the top-ranked or one of the top-ranked schools in the united states year after year. but they don't have their own individual teaching hospital. instead, harvard medical school partners with a whole bunch of hospitals. they partner with more than a dozenre different hospitals and medical institutions in the boston area and they use all of them as their teaching hospitals and affiliates. it's part of the reason why we

you are a harvard law professor. when you go to harvard law school and you are the top of your class, when you start harvard law school there is always an intimidation factor. you have 600 people and have to figure out if you are good or not. when did you realize you are good at law school kind of things? taking exams? did you know right away you are going to be a great law school student, and therefore become a potential law school professor? or were you nervous the first year or so? justice breyer: i think i was pretty nervous. i remember talking to a friend of mine i had been an undergraduate with, and he was there too. we both said, this is the end of our great careers. [laughter] after our first year. and we both did pretty well in law school. david: you were on the harvard law review, and sometimes you get to clerk on the supreme court for another justice. and you clerked for -- justice breyer: arthur goldberg. david: what was that like? justice breyer: it was terrific. he was an enthusiast with a lot of energy

david: you were in the harvard a lot review and sometimes it get -- the harvard law review. sometimes you get to clerk on the supreme court for another justice. and you clerked for -- justice breyer: arthur goldberg. he was great. jack kennedy said he was the smartest man he ever met. david: when you went to harvard law school, did you say this going to be my life? i am going to be a professor, you can teach great law school students. did you say maybe someday i will be on the supreme court, maybe i will be a judge? was that in your mind? justice breyer: anybody who thinks maybe someday i will be on the supreme court, i don't want to say there is something wrong with them but there is. [laughter] david: after teaching you got a good roberson -- reputation. senator kennedy invited you to work on his staff on regulatory reform. that is where i first encountered you when i was working capitol hill. you got a good reputation and then something happened that was a surprise to people. president carter nominated you to be a judge on the first circuit, not a surprise given your repu

and when did you graduate from harvard 1975? and when did you write your thesis? well 75 harvard. yeah. yeah, and so there was a six-year gap there. yeah, i worked well gosh, okay. i worked as a freelance writer. i mean, that's where you know you hold your graft, right? a very competitive you can imagine in boston. i mean i i remember applying for those. i think there a real estate. publisher or something? god knows i mean i needed i need a job. and i don't know why they hired me, but they did and i you know, but i mean again it was was practice and i worked as a church secretary. are lutheran church just outside harvard yard? i remember doing that 1975 because general franco was dying. we're getting daily bulletins. and then in 1976. having taken a year off. i was prepared. to go back to school is kind of a which is the closest thing to a a concession of failure, but i applied i was accepted at three schools. i was accepted harvard divinity school. which made no sense. i was accepted it cornell, which made? great sense and i was accepted the university of texas. which made no sen

but that is not how it works for harvard. harvard is the top ranked, or one of the top ranked schools in the united states year after year. but they do not have their own individual teaching hospital. instead, harvard medical school partners with a whole bunch of hospitals. they partner with more than a dozen different hospitals and medical institute and the boston area. and they use all of them as their teaching hospitals and affiliates. it's part of the reason we think of boston as being a world leader in terms of health care and hospitals. it helps that more than a dozen hospitals, from mass general to dana farber to boston children's to mass eye and ear, all of these famous hospitals and health care institutes, they are not only famous in their own rights, they are all teaching hospitals for harvard medical school. and the one with by far the weirdest name is the hospital that is called brigham and women's. before 1980, there were two different brigham hospitals in boston that were both harvard med school teaching hospita

harvard is a great place, why did you choose to go to princeton, a great school over harvard? mellody: my mom wanted me to go to harvard, my mom told me harvard was like coca-cola, anywhere in the world that i would go including an african village if i said harvard people would know what i was talking about. and princeton was like sprite she said, we know it in america. at the end of the day after visiting both, a princeton alum called me every day after i got into princeton and told me why princeton was a better school for me. he ultimately invited me to a lunch with bill bradley and between the two of them, the founder of ariel, i was triple teamed and i said any school where people will be this fanatical about the school and having someone go there must be a great place. so against my mother's wishes i chose princeton. david: and you never regret it. mellody: i loved princeton, we are hard-core, we bleed orange and black. david: so you graduated in what year? mellody: 1991. david: you and back to chicago. you could have gone to new york or the east coast, but you went to yo

she graduated magna cum laude from harvard. she went on to attend harvard law school where she was a top student and editor of the law review. then, she applied for a coveted clerkship on the u.s. supreme court and she was selected. the justice who thought she was worthy of this honor was a young lawyer, none other than justice breyer whose seat i am nominating her to fill. not only did she learn about being a judge from justice breyer himself, she saw the great rigor through which justice breyer approached his work. she learned from his willingness to learn from colleagues who different viewpoints. critical qualities for any supreme court justice. now, years later, she steps up to fill justice breyer's place with a uniquely accomplished and wide-ranging background. she served in public service as a federal public defender and in private law practice as an accomplished lawyer with a prestigious law firm. if confirmed, she will join justice sotomayor as the only other member of the u.s. supreme court who has experience as a tria

i went to harvard you -- harvard law school and enjoyed it very much, thank you. but it creates this perception that anybody else who doesn't come from that distinct pipeline is somehow, to use an unfortunate phrase that someone used an recently is lesser than. as if experience in different walks of life is not relevant to the project of judging, when it very much is. we shouldn't just be looking at people who went to harvard or yale. we shouldn't just be looking at men, we shouldn't just be looking at, we should not be excluding women or women of color, but we should be thinking about district court judges. district court judges try cases. they are there with human beings seeing the justice system in action. i can't remember the last time we nominated someone for the court who came from the trial experience as i believe this person you mentioned would. just as i said in "place not grace" -- we need to expand the pipeline and, absolutely, having someone come from a fine public university, they are wonderful -- there are wonderful public institutions out there. the

, four black women that entered harvard together, they roomed together, they all went to harvard law together, they have been at each other's weddings and childbirths and what they describe, her friends describe about her, as someone who is a social organizer, some one who early on said i'm going to take up a lot of space, make my point of view known. i think one of them early in college said you're going to be on the supreme court one day. if she could see it that early, maybe she is fit to be there. judy: jonathan,hat is your take? jonathan: she's deathly fit to be there, i do not read the story you read, i read a big profile of her online in the washington post. the four women were also featured in that profile. but what i got from that was a woman and a lawyer and now a judge who is and has been pragmatic on the bench. she follows the law, and she is grounded in her belief in the law and believe that the law should be meted out equally. throughout her career at harvard, undergrad and in law school when there were moments when other black students were looking to protest x y or z,

david: harvard is a great place. why did you choose to go to princeton, which is a great school, over harvard? mellody: my mom wanted me to go to harvard. my mom told me harvard was like coca-cola, that anywhere in the world i would go, including an african village, if i said harvard, people would know what i was talking about. and princeton was like sprite. she said we only knew it in america. at the end of the day, after visiting both, a princeton alum called me every day after i got into princeton and told me why princeton was a better school for me. and he ultimately invited me to a lunch with bill bradley. and between two of them and john rogers, the founder of ariel, i was triple-teamed. and ultimately i said, any school where people would be this fanatical about the school and having someone go there must be a really great place. so, against my mother's wishes, i chose princeton. david: and you never regretted it, right? mellody: i left princeton in every way. princetonians, we are hard-core, we bleed orange a

assistant director is the assistant director of studies in an election on history and literature at harvard university. she's taught seminars in tutorials on museums in america museums and material culture and science exploration and empire. a research and teaching focus on 19th century american literature and culture with particular interest in material. culture museum studies and the history of science and technology she received her phd in english from boston university and her undergraduate degree from harvard. she will be joined by mhs's own sarah georgie who is probably a familiar face to any many of our regulars. she is a series editor for the papers of john adams part of the adams papers editorial project based at the massachusetts historical society. she is the author of household gods. the religious lives the addams family and frequently writes about early america early american thought and culture for the smithsonian. um similar to whichberg. she also receives her phd from boston university. so without further ado, please join me and welcoming miss kochberg well, great. thank you

. >> reporter: ketanji brown jackson has a resume seemingly tailor-fit for the moment-- harvard grad, supreme court clerk, and a federal judge with a dp history in public service. >> there is a direct line from my defender service to what i do on the bench. >> reporter: d.c.-born and miami-raised, jackson stood out early, excelling in high school as class president and on the debate team. even then, her goal was clear. she's quoted in her senior yearbook, saying, “i want to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment.” her teenage years were key to achieving that. as she put it in 2017: >> i have no doubt that, of all the various things i've done, it was my high school experience as a competitive speaker that taught me how to lean in, despite the obstacles. >> reporter: with honors degrees from harvard and harvard law, jackson scored three federal clerkships, including one under the justice she may now replace. >> justice breyer plucked me from obscurity and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. >> she is adored among the breyer clerk family. >> reporter: she made a la

harvard, a breyer clerk herself. in fact, she'd be the third supreme court justice to replace the justice they clerked for. >> reporter: despite her elite legal pedigree, jackson comes from a modest background. >> it's the story of someone who's always been very hard-working, has not had things handed to her, has worked for all the things she's achieved. she's kind of the american dream. >> reporter: she was born in 1970 in washington, d.c. but raised in miami where she attended public schools. >> i am standing here today by the grace of god as testament to the love and support that i've received from my family. >> reporter: her father, a teacher, and later county school board attorney. her mother, a public high school principal. >> very proud of ketanji. thanks to the community for just supporting her, and we're wishing her well. >> reporter: today judge jackson talked about her extended family, noting one of her uncles did time in prison. >> you may have read that i have one uncle who got caught up in the drug trad

i think a mid-rated at harvard is now like three or four percent. nobody is entitled to these places and what counts as merit is is you know, they're trying to get a diverse class where they have people from all kinds of backgrounds and no one person because can say i i'm entitled to that spot nor can you really say realistically in a system where there's a very modest in reference to race as a plus factor in order to achieve a real racial diversity. you can't honestly say this person was excluded because that person was included. so i agree with you our analysis of the concurrence in powell, but i disagree with your analysis of the facts of what is going on in harvard. let's let's hear from cornelius and alexandria, louisiana cornelius. good afternoon to welcome to book tv. good afternoon, peter and i want to bring up to quick things first miss cash it i want to thank you for taking the questions. i haven't been african-american here from alexandria, louisiana and our lieutenant governor named billy nun. gessner has going on the civil war civil rig

she's a graduate of harvard and harvard law. at age 51, she would be the second youngest supreme court justice. amy coney barrett is the youngest who turned 50 last year and judge jackson is distantly related to the former house speaker. >> we will see her here. she will be accompanying the president in a few moments. she will, as we are told, speak also. the president is about to make his appearance with judge ketanji brown jackson. >> good afternoon. today as we watch freedom and liberty attacked abroad, i'm here to fulfill my responsibilities under the constitution to preserve freedom and liberty in the united states of manager. it is my honor to introduce to the country a daughter of former public school teacher, a proven consensus builder, an accomplished lawyer, a distinguished jurist, one of the most prestigious courts. my nominee for the united states supreme court is judge ketanji jackson. four weeks ago when a member of the court, a friend of mine, we used to work together in the senate, justice stephen breyer announce

that maybe outweighs harvard grad school. and we're gonna see about that have another segment to chat about those fascinating stuff. john, thanks bring i guys report. thank you for having me. all right, i was going to do this addition pass to report with may max taiser. like i guess josh young news story, charity is on next time. ah, ah, the mediterranean is the world's most proficiency unsustainable exploitation of its fish dogs, which maureen biodiversity under great thread, and your selection. again, the quote was for sure your guest on the system because our system i can continue to pull the cookie capital from with tech and want to put a loose despite the eas promises to end over fishing by 2020. the situation is changing too slow. well, i'm very disappointed with that they've basically no, in public interests. they also do know in the mid interest of officially the only interest of the fishery. moby on the face of the only ones in danger. the fishermen also at risk of losing or picking them up something before they get

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so we said, at that time -- i was going between harvard and haiti. i was being trained as an infectious disease specialist at harvard and, you know, it is right around the corner to haiti. so i'd get off the plane on one side and i'd be begging my american patients, "you've got to take these pills, these aids cocktails," and i'd get off on the other side and they'd be begging meor the same medicines. so we spent a couple of years saying there's got to be a way to deliver the same services to people living in haiti. and, you know, it took a long time to get that support. we started in 1998. and we actually called it, somewhat sassily, the hiv equity program because we knew it would be a fight for equity from the beginning and we knew it would be a fight for basic rights, as well. amy: and yet you say that in some places in haiti, they're getting better health care than the united states? >> i know it is true. it is not really an assertion. ronic disease -- aids is a good example, you need to take -- diabetes, insulin diabetes. to take medicine every d

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harvard as she could so that might have been a tradition as well and fdr lived quite well at harvard by the way. he had his own set of rooms. he had not only a car he had a boat. i mean who has their own boat at harvard? so it was a very comfortable environment, of course. mommy was just down the road. so as we talk about their political experience. as young men there there is something else in common and that is that they both serve in the state legislature and it grooms them lincoln in the raucous state legislature of illinois as a member of the lower house, which he's instrumental in infrastructure improvements, although it bankrupts the state speaks for the first and only time about the franchise being extended to women education is a top priority and interesting legislative career, and i guess we think that the most the most prominent moment in his legislative career comes when he joins a group to move the state capital. faithfully as it turns out to springfield, illinois roosevelt is you know, he's a progressive. hudson valley legislator actually wins a long time republican sea

close harvard as she could. that may have been a tradition, as well. >> fdr had his own set of rooms and boat, who has their own boat at harvard. it was a very comfortable environment. of course, mommy was just down the road. >> as we talk about their political experience as young men, there is something else in common and that is that they both serve in the state legislator and it grooms them. lincoln as a member of the lower house, which he's instrumental in infrastructure improvements, although it bankrupts the state. speaks for the first and only time about the franchise being extended to women. education is a top priority and interesting legislative career. i guess we think that the most, the most prominent moment in his legislator career comes when he joins a group to move the state capital faithfully, as it turns out to, springfield, illinois. roosevelt is a progressive hudson valley legislator. wins long-time republican seat for the state senate. >> he does. the idea of ogoing into the state legislature

she graduated cum laude from harvard law in 1996, and was editor of the harvard law review. following law school, she held several clerkships, including for justice breyer in 1999. justice brown jackson later worked as an assistant public defender in washington, d.c., before spending several years on the u.s. sentencing commission and partially becoming the vice chair under president obama. she was confirmed to the u.s. district court by a voice vote. she was confirmed last year to the u.s. court of appeals by a senate vote of 53-44. you can learn more about ketanji brown jackson at c-span.org. >> c-span's washington journal. every day we are taking your calls live, on the air, on the news of the day, and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. saturday morning, kimberly robinson discusses judge ketanji brown jackson's nomination to the supreme court. then a representative from the arms control association on russia's nuclear capability and previous arms control agreements between the u.s. and russia. also, in our spotlight on podcasts segment, a financial times chief

when you go to harvard law school and you are the top of your class. there is an intimidation factor. you have to figure out are you going to be good or not. when did you realize you are good at law school kind of things? did you know you are going to be a great law school student and become a potential law school professor? or your nervous the first year or so -- were you nervous the first year or so? >> i talked with someone who was with me in undergrad. we both had great careers after our first year. >> you are in the harvard law review, sometimes you get to clerk on the supreme court for another justice and you clerked for -- >> grover. >> what was that like? >> jack kennedy said he was the smartest man he ever met. >> you went to teach at harvard law school. did you say this is going to be my life? nothing terrible about that. or did you say, maybe someday i will be on the supreme court, a judge? >> i thought maybe someday. anybody who thinks maybe someday, i do not want to say there is something wrong with it, but there is something wrong with it

born in san francisco, he vaattended stanford and harvard law and in just three years after graduating from harvard, he returned to school professor earl in which he inspired generations of jurors in public servants. and held a few occupations as well, he served our country as a corporal in the united states army and the army reserve, he was a different supreme court justice goldberg, member of the watergate special prosecutor's office, and chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee which i am honoredf to chair. and he was appointed to the u.s. court of appeals, for the first circuit, where he served for nearly 14 years before his confirmation to the united states supreme court. i might add for the record, on the confirmation to the court was 89 - seven that was about it was remarkable to show the strength and support for the man whose politics was very core unclear as he served and the senate judiciary committee and lead counsel for many years and justice stephen g. breyer record was nothing short of awe inspiring, from the voting rights to the women's productive reproductive fre