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Speaker 1: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: She was first appointed to the US Court of Appeals

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty by President Jimmy Carter, then to the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton. In Ginsburg is the

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Speaker 1: second out of only four female justices to ever be

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Speaker 1: confirmed to the Court. In nine the American Bar Association

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Speaker 1: gave her its coveted Thurgood Martial Award for her years

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Speaker 1: of advocacy for gender equality, civil rights, and social justice.

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Speaker 1: Ginsburg sat down with David Rubinstein, co founder of the

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Speaker 1: Carlisle Group and host of the Bloomberg television show Peer

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Speaker 1: to Peer Conversations, to discuss her health, that ascent that

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Speaker 1: earned her the nickname of the Notorious RBG, and politics

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Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. Let me ask you a question

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Speaker 1: at the beginning, how does it feel to get up

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Speaker 1: in the morning and know that three thirty million Americans

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Speaker 1: want to know the state of your health that day?

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Speaker 1: How does it feel encouraging? As Kansas survivors know that

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Speaker 1: dread disease is a challenge, and it helps to know

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Speaker 1: that people are rooting for you. Now, it's not universal.

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Speaker 1: When I had pagriat a cancer. In two thousand nine,

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Speaker 1: there was a senator whose name I don't recall, but

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Speaker 1: he said I would be dead within six months. That

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Speaker 1: senator is now no longer alive. But you can't remember

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Speaker 1: his name? No, I don't remember you. Um. But your

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Speaker 1: current view is that as long as you're healthy and

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Speaker 1: able to do the job, you intend to stay on

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Speaker 1: the court. Is that correct? As long as I'm healthy

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Speaker 1: and mentally agile. Right? So now, Justice Stevens and later

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Speaker 1: and previously Justice uh Oliver winder Holmes, they were tired

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Speaker 1: when they were ninety. Would you like to break their

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Speaker 1: record or any thought about that? I spent the first

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Speaker 1: week in July with Justice Stevens what turned out to

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Speaker 1: be the last week of his life. He was remarkable.

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Speaker 1: He was nine years old. Since he left the Court

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Speaker 1: at age nine, he's written four books. So yes, he's

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Speaker 1: my real model. So UM. Today, many people think that

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Speaker 1: the Court is very political, that people appointed to the

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Speaker 1: Court by Democratic presidents and those appointed by Republican presidents

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Speaker 1: tend to follow the political desires of the Republican or

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Speaker 1: Democratic party. Do you think that's a fair assessment? And

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Speaker 1: why do you think If it's not fair? People have

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Speaker 1: that view. People have that view because agreement is an

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Speaker 1: interesting disagreement is so the press tends to play up

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Speaker 1: our five four or our five three decisions. But if

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Speaker 1: we can take just the last term as a typical example,

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Speaker 1: we had sixty eight decisions after full briefing and argument

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Speaker 1: of those twenty world five four or five three divisions,

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Speaker 1: but twenty nine were unanimous. So we agree more often

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Speaker 1: than we sharply disagree. And that's something I would like

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Speaker 1: the audience to take away that the divisions, yes, they

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Speaker 1: are on some very important questions, but our agreement rate

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Speaker 1: is always higher than our disagreement rate. So if you

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Speaker 1: have a five to four perspective decision, there's one of

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Speaker 1: the justices go to the another justice and say, why

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Speaker 1: don't you change your mind? Does that work very much?

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Speaker 1: Or there's no more upstrating at the court what he says,

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Speaker 1: if you vote for me on this one, I'll vote

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Speaker 1: for you on that one. That doesn't happen. It never happens.

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Speaker 1: But we are constantly trying to persuade each other, and

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Speaker 1: most often we do it through our writing. Every time

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Speaker 1: I write a descent before I am hopeful that I

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Speaker 1: can pick up a vote many people are surprised that

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Speaker 1: the civility that exists between justices even though they write

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Speaker 1: not such favorable things about each other. So, for example,

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Speaker 1: Justice Scalia used to say not such wonderful things about

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Speaker 1: your views, and you then still went to the opera

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Speaker 1: with him. Was that a little awkward or hard to do?

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Speaker 1: And not at all? And Justice Lean and I became

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Speaker 1: friends when we were buddies on the d C circuit.

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Speaker 1: What did I love most about him? His infectious sense

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Speaker 1: of humor. When we were three judges on the Court

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Speaker 1: of Appeals, he sometimes whispered something to me. It would

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Speaker 1: crack me up. I had all I could do to

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Speaker 1: contain hysterical laughter. But we had much in common. True,

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Speaker 1: our styles were very different, but both of us cared

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Speaker 1: lawyers and judges will understand what we were saying. Both

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Speaker 1: of you were and you still are a great opera lover.

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Speaker 1: Where did you get your love of opera to begin with?

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Speaker 1: And where did the opera Scalia Ginsburg come from. I'll

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Speaker 1: take you the first question first. My love of opera

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Speaker 1: began when I was eleven years old. I was in

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Speaker 1: high school in Brooklyn where an opera was being performed.

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Speaker 1: It was La Gia Conda, not a likely choice for

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Speaker 1: onto beautiful music, and he had an all city orchestra.

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Speaker 1: He took opera performances around to various schools, condensed them

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Speaker 1: So of my introduction to opera was thanks to Dean

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Speaker 1: Dixon in ninety four. So the Scalia Ginsburg Opera was

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Speaker 1: written by a law school student. He was then a

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Speaker 1: law school student. He was a music major at Harvard

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Speaker 1: and the masses in music from Yale. Dirk Wang is

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Speaker 1: his name. He decided it would be useful to know

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Speaker 1: something about the law, so he enrolled in his hometown

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Speaker 1: law school with University of Maryland, and in his second

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Speaker 1: year he took a constitutional law course. He read these

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Speaker 1: dueling opinions Scali on one side, Ginsburg on the other,

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Speaker 1: and decided this could make a very funny opera. So

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Speaker 1: I'll just give you a taste of Scley Higginsburg. It

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Speaker 1: opens with Scalia's rage aria. It's an a very Handelian

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Speaker 1: in style, and he sings the justices a blind how

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Speaker 1: can they possibly spout this? The Constitution says absolutely nothing

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Speaker 1: about this. And then, in my color of true a

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Speaker 1: soprano voice, I answered, dear Justice, Scalia, you are surging

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Speaker 1: for bright line solutions the problems that don't have easy answers.

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Speaker 1: But the great thing about our constitution is that, like

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Speaker 1: our society, it can evolve, so that that sets up

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Speaker 1: the difference between us. The plot of Scalia Agginsburg is

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Speaker 1: roughly based on the Magic Flu and Scalia is locked

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Speaker 1: up in a dog room. He's being punished for excessive dissenting.

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Speaker 1: I then emerged through a glass ceiling and to help

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Speaker 1: him pass the tests he needs to pass to get

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Speaker 1: out of the dog room. Then a character left over

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Speaker 1: from Don Giovanni the commentatory it is astonished. He said,

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Speaker 1: And I sing, He's not my enemy, he's my dear friend,

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Speaker 1: and then we sing a wonderful duet that those we

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Speaker 1: are different, we are one different. Enough approach to reading

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Speaker 1: and for the institution we serve. So most justices of

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Speaker 1: would say maybe in recent years that changed a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But you are extremely well known around the country now,

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Speaker 1: but you weren't when you went on the court. But

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Speaker 1: now you've become more or less a rock star um RBG,

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Speaker 1: and you have movies about you on the basis of

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Speaker 1: sex and other things. So why do you think this

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Speaker 1: has occurred? And is this something you don't really enjoy

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Speaker 1: that much or something you just think comes with the territory. Now,

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Speaker 1: how is the notorious on BG created? It was the

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Speaker 1: idea of a second year student at ny U Law

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Speaker 1: School who was very disappointed in the Court's decision in

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Speaker 1: the Shelby County case. And that was a case in

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Speaker 1: which is the Court declared unconstitutional the key provision of

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Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act of nine, an act that had

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Speaker 1: been renewed time and again by overwhelming majorities both sides

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Speaker 1: The way the Voting Acts Act worked was if you

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Speaker 1: were a state or a city or a county that

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Speaker 1: kept African Americans from voting. In the NAZA litt old days,

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Speaker 1: you could not make any change in voting legislation m

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Speaker 1: is now out of date. Caylus needs to do it

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Speaker 1: over because jurisdictions that were discriminating in may have clean

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Speaker 1: it under the surveillance that the voting writes that provides

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Speaker 1: just wasn't going to happen. The Act itself had a

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Speaker 1: bailout provision, so if a state, city, county indeed had

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Speaker 1: that device, I thought was was all that was needed.

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Speaker 1: But in any event, this student was disturbed about the

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Speaker 1: Court's decision. She was angry, and then she said to herself,

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Speaker 1: anger is not a useful emotion. I'm going to do

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Speaker 1: something positive. And what she did but she took the

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Speaker 1: announcement of my descent that I read from the bench

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Speaker 1: in Shelby County, and she created this blog Hiding at

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Speaker 1: the Notorious Albig, a name she got from a well

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Speaker 1: And when I was asked, well, what in the world

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Speaker 1: I said, It's obvious both of us were born and

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Speaker 1: she listened to many tapes of my speeches and my

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Speaker 1: recent years you've also got a lot of attention for

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Speaker 1: your exercise. Uh. I have been with the same personal

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Speaker 1: had chelocal cancer and my dear husband said, after going

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Speaker 1: He said, you must do something to burg yourself up.

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Speaker 1: Get a personal trainer, And that's when I started in.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I get so absorbed in my work I just

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Speaker 1: don't want to let go. But when it comes time

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Speaker 1: much better when we finished. Okay, so you met your

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Speaker 1: husband Marty. You were married for fifty six years. You

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Speaker 1: met him at Cornell? Is that right? Yes? I met

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Speaker 1: all the other burdens of being married. Is that a

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Speaker 1: very common thing in your observation or it was extraordinary

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Speaker 1: at any time, particularly in the nine teen fifties. Cornell,

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Speaker 1: manner Cornel. You were hopeless. So then I met Marty,

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Speaker 1: knew who cared that I had a brain. He was

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Speaker 1: always my biggest booster. The cooking that began. I had

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Speaker 1: two years between college and law school, and Marty was

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