that was oliver holmes, jr. what say of senator john mccain of how war transformed your life and the experiences in vietnam shaped your life there after including as a united states senator since 1987? >> could i say a couple words about oliver windel holmes. there is the graduates of harvard and others were put in the regimen and they fought in the bloodiest encounters of the civil war. he was wounded in the neck. and you can imagine what that would have been like. he was missing on the battlefield. his father was a famous author in those days and walked the battlefield searching for his son and believed he was dead so caught up with him later on. remarkable story and he continued to fight in these battles so they took incredibly high casualties. the bloodiest war of all was our own civil war. brother against brother and family against family. remarkable when you thing about the carnage that might have been necessary but it was a and terrible cost. he was a remarkable man and forever changed. he left for harvar

that was oliver holmes, jr. what say of senator john mccain of how war transformed your life and the experiences in vietnam shaped your life there after including as a united states senator since 1987? >> could i say a couple words about oliver windel holmes. there is the graduates of harvard and others were put in the regimen and they fought in the bloodiest encounters of the civil war. he was wounded in the neck. and you can imagine what that would have been like. he was missing on the battlefield. his father was a famous author in those days and walked the battlefield searching for his son and believed he was dead so caught up with him later on. remarkable story and he continued to fight in these battles so they took incredibly high casualties. the bloodiest war of all was our own civil war. brother against brother and family against family. remarkable when you thing about the carnage that might have been necessary but it was a huge and terrible cost. he was a remarkable man and forever changed. he left for h

and the physician oliver wendell holmes, he liked to follow it as well. in his mind pomeroy shouldn't be, he didn't have to be placed in jail or killed. he needed to be studied. he figured he wasn't the only child who was doing these things. he was the only one that people have actually heard of so it would've been a very good idea to just study them and figure out if you could learn something from him but people did really agree with him and the jury didn't either because as soon as the trial was done, he was sentenced to die. he was sentenced to hang. at the time the governor was the only one who could sign, even though the jury had decided that, the governor had to sign a warrant of execution, and he refused to do that. the governor didn't want the state to be sort of known around the country as a state would execute a 14 year old boy. he felt that he should have that mark on your conscious pick the state should have that stand and they don't have the state who would execute a 14 euro but that he refused to do that for well over a year. jesse was place

there's the famous moment after oliver holmes meets fdr and says it's a second class temperament andou wouldn't say that fdr has the greatest intellectual ability of all of these presidents although his capacity was significant, but what he was really unique and exemplary in was his intuitive powers and that is what made him so good to realize where his opportunity was as a president to sort of step in and try and effect change. the second on my list is lincoln. for similar reasons, actually. he was also a man of great ability and who was very good at having people underestimate him but also understood a lot of human understanding is beyond us and a president shouldn't try to control everything that he can go forth humbly and just try and do good work. my third choice is probably a little more iffy. it's john f. kennedy. really exclusively i would say because of his handling of the cuban missile crisis. i think when you look at jfk in those moments, you see a brain and a spirit that is sort of operating on highest level. >> yes. >> he is able to be both in the moment and also thinkin

. >> in most of my closing arguments, i used to quote oliver wendell holmes who said, "memories may fadesses dissemble, but circumstances never lie." and the circumstances of this case are forensic circumstances and they did not lie. >>> a drive-by shooting on an alaskan highway. and a bomb sent through the mail. two apparently random acts of senseless violence, until forensic science discovered an important link. on an october night in 1990, rob chamberlain and his friend were driving along glenn highway in anchorage, alaska, headed to a local restaurant. as he approached the exit ramp, chamberlain heard a loud crack. he looked band

oliver wendell holmes louis brandeis and thurgood marshall. thank you so much. >> guest: oliver wendell holmes was one of the most celebrated justices in history. there are many of his opinions that aren't applied that there are many of his opinions but i think are among the worst in history to this afternoon began by talking about buck versus delaware justice holmes said three generations of imbeciles are enough and state can impose involuntary sterilization sterilization. as justice holmes wrote the first cases about the first amendment and allow the government to punish speech even when there's no realistic danger of national security. the first cases schenck versus message involving a man is certainly to leaflet arguing the military draft was involuntary servitude. for doing that he served 10 years in prison. there's no evidence in military recruitment rick at the supreme court opinion by justice holmes upheld in "the simpsons" conviction. they both had very distinguished careers as active as lawyers before going on the bench. louis brandei

rights is a right to procreate but the supreme court eight / one decision written by justice oliver wendell holmes ruled against carey. with the most revered jurist one of the most extensive language anywhere the justice holmes said '' three generations of imbeciles are enough's. 1/4 her the sterilization. 60,000 people in the united states or in voluntarily surgically sterilized as the results of the of movement and the supreme court decision. i was teaching this and my knees students understandably were outraged by the case. the night after the class are realized i had been making excuses what the supreme court had done but all too often in my teaching or by writing a was making excuses. but if i thought about it critically to realize the supreme court has often failed at the most important times and wanted to write a book that said that. [laughter] >>host: what d.c. is the purpose to have a constitution in the first place? >>guest: i think the constitution is an effort with a document that is difficult to change. what makes it different from all other laws is in a statute passed by congress can

i close with a quote from oliver wendell holmes.i find the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. you must sail sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it. totally must -- but we must sail. you must choose the path that has the most value for our nation. >> thank you. i would note in afternoon when we are listening to learned scientists as a lawyer, i appreciate you throwing a supreme court justice in there . >> thank you. i want to thank you for holding this hearing and providing me the opportunity to testify as president of the commercial spaceflight federation. csf is an organization working to make sure commercial spaceflight is a reality. nasa and the commercial sector our partners in america's great national enterprise, space. since the dawn of the space program, cooperation between the government and the private sector has been critical to our accomplishments in space. this cooperation allows us to achieve great things. the relationship has evolved over time. the relation

oliver wendell holmes louis brandeis and thurgood marshall. hank you so much. >> guest: oliver wendell holmes was one of the most celebrated justices in history. there are many of his opinions that aren't applied that there are many of his opinions but i think are among the worst in history to this afternoon began by talking about buck versus delaware justice holmes said three generations of imbeciles are enough and state can impose involuntary sterilization sterilization. as justice holmes wrote the first cases about the first amendment and allow the government to punish speech even when there's no realistic danger of national security. the first cases schenck versus message involving a man is certainly to leaflet arguing the military draft was involuntary servitude. for doing that he served 10 years in prison. there's no evidence in military recruitment rick at the supreme court opinion by justice holmes upheld in "the simpsons" conviction. they both had very distinguished careers as active as lawyers before going on the bench. louis brandeis