ladies and gentlemen, gunther will start it and then i'll run around with the microphone. gunther? >> okay. thank you very much, jeremy. let me throw a few general questions that i could discuss, i thought. the issue came up first and then it was raised by rob, too, and i think it was very interesting opening statement about his growing up in cleveland and that is what callers have called the yalta myths. namely, keep in mind that was a very good question from the audience and is this the same thing, the selling out of eastern europe and the selling out of china and that big debate in american post-war politics, keep in mind the context for that debate is that the republicans have been out of office since 1932. they've won big in the 46th election and they wanted to win the white house. this seemed to be the issue where you could blame the democrats for really doing bad thing, meaning selling out china and selling out eastern europe and yalta and that's how yalta became a bad word in the immediate post-war period and these yalta myths. i think as rob told us, echoed all of the way

david: so one of your law professors, professor gunther, got you, after many efforts, to a clerkshipith judge palmieri? ruth: yes. david: was that easy to do for him because you were a mother? ruth: yes, he had no qualms about a woman. he had had a woman as a law clerk before, but he was concerned. the southern district of new york is a busy court, and sometimes he would need a law clerk's aid even on a sunday, and he was fearful that i would not be able to do the job that needed to be done. so professor gunther-- i found out about this years later; i didn't know at the time-- said to judge palmieri, "give her a chance, and if she doesn't work out, "there's a young man in the class who's going "to a downtown firm. he will jump in and take over." and that was the carrot. it was also a stick, and the stick was, "if you don't give her a chance, "i will never recommend another columbia student to you." david: wow. ruth: and that's how-- that's how it was for women of my vintage, was getting the first job was powerfully hard. you know how justice o'connor got her first job? she was very h

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has good reason to ask, why yalta, and we talked about in the excellent presentation by professor gunther bischoff, was there a discussion of the conferences that led to yalta. there was also a mention of pottsdam. yalta is a conference that is still happening very much in the middle of the war and it is still considered as a conference, as a peace conference to the degree that there was any after world war ii. if you think about this conference, maybe pottsdam, so why yalta? one of the reasons is that yalta had important decisions to make and they had previous conferences and others were finalized and another reason was that that had happened also to be the last conference of president roosevelt. that was really his last major, major move and accomplishment dependent on how people were looking at that in the international arena and in the conditions of '40s and early '50s. as you know, issues of history can become very political and the debates between republicans and democrats, that conference was there more than any other conference at the time and there was interest to go after truman

there's windows broken began sunday night when pittsburgh police suspected this man 41 year old donald gunthero was homeless of vandalizing business on bailey road. officers learn. gunter had an outstanding, do you i warrant but they couldn't book him into contra costa jail in martinez doing covid-19 restrictions. that subject's warned, did not meet the criteria to be placed in the jail. so that subsequently released then, at about 1 45 monday morning, several businesses along railroad avenue had rocks thrown through their windows, including restaurants, a donut shop and a co store workers spent the morning cleaning up s and he got a bunch of them. danny kiev. al's doughnut, says the rock bounce off the wall but didn't hit any treats just a bum, and he just starts throwing rocks so and then the guy went over and started hitting every single window across the street. stop. our local starbucks had been burglarized and. property inside had been vandalized and destroyed approximately $10,000 worth of damage. this time the suspect went to jail. pittsburgh police and others say repeat offenders are

gunther bischoff. [ applause ] >>> weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programsiew of what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, a discussion on slavery and emancipation. >> former interpreters at the colonial williamsburg foundation talking about bringing african-american stories to life and how they felt compelled to tell their ancestor's stories appropriately. panelists include the ceo christie coleman and curator rex ellis of the museum of african-american history and culture. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span3. explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span3, created by america's cable television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >> harvard ukrainian history professor sergei plotke has the the yalta conference which tok

so ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome gunther to open our symposium. thank you. okay good ladies -- good morning ladies and gentlemen. let's to see you here. shout out to the colleagues and students. if you think about yalta, it's fitting that our colleague didn't make it out of vermont because it was very hard to get to yalta at the time. in february, 1945, you might know that roosevelt was already a very sickly man, and he had to travel by ship to virginia to malta in the mediterranean. ten days. then a seven-hour flight up to the northern part of the peninsula. the airfield. from there he took a car down to the palace in yalta. another four hours. this is a man who had all kinds of physical challenges. so keep that in mind. by the way, there were a number of other cities initially envisioned for a summit meeting. roosevelt for example suggested scotland, cyprus, sicily, or jerusalem if possible. sites for a summit meeting. but of course he didn't want to leave. we will talk about that. when we talk about summits, this is a relatively recent phenomenon, symmetr