We have a record from a CBS radio show in October 1955 on the show "The Leading Question."I can't make out the CBS host's name, or the fellow participant. Quick searches have led to nothing, though I expect patience and resolve would surface more. At the moment not sure it is worth it.
I've wanted to add the recording here, but so far haven't found the way to do that. If I could add an image to the audio, it then becomes a video, and at the moment I haven't found a quick way to do that either. I have however found out how toconvert it from a CDA to an mp3, which is the common audio format.
It is a fascinating recording and one applicable to these times in the early Trump administration, talking about the powers of the Vice President in case of illness or incapacitation of the President. The two legal scholars, my grandfather among them, experts in constitutional law.
For decades in an umbrella container (was it brass or ceramic? I don't recall) on the left side inside the entrance to Grandfather's study facing the house next door where the owners were close friends of Julia Child's, there stood a handsome wood handled umbrella, a gift from John F. Kennedy for a consultation on constitutional law. What the question was, perhaps is somewhere in the letters, but for now, we do not know. We were proud that a sitting president had consulted with our Grandfather, and his son, my father, was proud as well.
Listen to The Leading Question interview with Prof. Arthur E. Sutherland and Prof. Edgar McManus by CBS interviewer Paul Niven.
Arthur E Sutherland ends the interview talking about John Locke:
I was reading something last night. You know, one of the elder saints of American Constitutionalism is an Englishman John Locke. In Locke's Second Treatise of Government which he wrote in 1689, there's a great thing in there:
"You cannot by legislation lay out all the affairs of human beings well enough but that you must have abundant discretion in the man who administers them."
[End of recording]
