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I CAN STILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE” As the Supreme Court begins a new term this week, David Gergen sits down with Sandra Day O’Connor, the ﬁrst female justice, to talk about life after the bench and her thoughts on the current state of the court

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t was July 1981. I was taking a rare vacation from my job as President Reagan’s communications director when my boss rang. “Please be in my office tomorrow at 10,” said Jim Baker, Reagan’s chief of staff. “I can’t tell you why.” Getting to Washington from New York’s Finger Lakes was an ordeal—long drive, broken-down car—but as I burst into his office, the effort was more than worth it. There stood Sandra Day O’Connor, the president’s choice to be the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. I liked her immediately: She was gracious and modest but came with a direct, don’t-messwith-me style that harked back to her days as a young cowgirl on the Lazy B ranch in Arizona, learning to brand cattle and hunt jackrabbits with a rifle. Today at 82, she hasn’t changed a bit. Slender and fit, she still has an

adventuresome spirit—the same conﬁdence and drive that propelled her from the high desert to the highest court in the land. During her quarter-century on the bench, O’Connor became known for her core belief in civility, compromise, and the sensible center. As a moderate justice on an ideologically divided court, she cast the swing vote in countless 5-4 decisions. Before she stepped down in 2006 to spend more time with her beloved husband, John, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s, Time magazine wrote that O’Connor would be remembered as “perhaps the most powerful Supreme Court justice in recent history.” In a book on the court, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin contends that O’Connor has become the most important woman in American history. She would be more comfortable being called an American pioneer.

It’s no surprise to me that “retirement” isn’t slowing her down. As she puts it, “I’m not accustomed to sitting around doing nothing.” When O’Connor isn’t ﬁlling in to hear cases in federal courts of appeals or devoting time to her three sons and their families, she’s hard at work promoting what she considers her most important cause yet: revitalizing civics education for young people so they are better informed about how our government works and what should be expected of them as citizens. Recently we sat down at her modest home in Phoenix to talk about her whirlwind romance with John, her troubles breaking through the glass ceiling as a female graduate of Stanford Law, the court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, and her work to make sure the next generation keeps liberty alive. As always, she was gracious … and direct. PARADE: I was stunned by a recent survey that showed the approval rating for Supreme Court justices had fallen to 44 percent, down from 66 percent in the late ’80s. SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR: Yes. I thought that was very disturbing. I think Bush v. Gore may have been a turning point. It was seen by the public as political. [The case] had to be resolved somehow. But it didn’t help the image of the court any. Even though, from your point of view, it was properly decided? Yes. These days each president is under enormous pressure to nominate justices whose beliefs are in line with those of his party. And then when a justice goes the other way— as Chief Justice Roberts did in the decision to uphold President Obama’s health care reform law—there are cries of betrayal. The decision shows that the court is not acting on political instincts. It’s trying to resolve bona ﬁde and tough legal issues—and it is. So even though the health care decision angered many conservatives, from your perspective it was

Justice O’Connor at her home in Phoenix, 31 years after she was appointed to the Supreme Court and 60 years after she began her trailblazing career in law.

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Justice O’Connor is leading the charge to teach our kids civics, and it can’t happen soon enough: More Americans can name the Three Stooges than can name the three branches of govern-

A 1950 Stanford University yearbook photo; with President Reagan in Washington, D.C., in 1981. At their ﬁrst meeting, O’Connor charmed the president by talking about her love of horses. He never interviewed anyone else for the job.

ment functions. Tell us about your effort to improve civics education. I think it’s the most important thing I’ve done. We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. We want [young people] to continue to be part of it. We need ’em more than ever. An Annenberg poll found that more people could name an American Idol judge than the chief justice of the United States. That’s right. We have to do something about it. I want to [start with] middle schoolers. They enjoy learning at that age. Your website, iCivics.org, is designed to make civics fun.

ment, according to a Zogby International poll. How much do you know about our government? Find out by taking a civics portion of the U.S. naturalization test. (Warning: One in three citizens failed in a survey taken this year!) 1. What do we call the ﬁrst 10 amendments to the Constitution? 2. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? 3. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? 4. We elect a U.S. senator for how many years? 5. The House of Representatives has how many voting members? 6. If both the president and the vice president can no longer

serve, who becomes president? 7. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government? 8. When was the Constitution written? 9. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers. 10. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

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How does it work? What we know is that kids like to play games on the computer. So I set up an advisory group of fabulous teachers to tell me what we needed to focus on in a civics course. And then we [had] games designed that focus on [those parameters]. Young people spend an average of 40 hours a week in front of a screen. One or two hours a week would do to teach them civics. The site also offers curriculum materials, right? Yes, [materials] that teachers can use. Baylor University did a study: They put iCivics to use in a lot of schools in Texas for about three months. They didn’t just say it was good; they gave it rave reviews, said it was incredible, that it’s engaging, that the kids really learn. The program is now used in 50 states and an estimated 55,000 classrooms. I want to be in a lot more than that. I mean, that’s just to start. What happens if we fail to teach our children civics? You have citizens who don’t understand how government works and they’re kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen. As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself—and not just by voting. [Test your own civics knowledge with the Pop Quiz, left.] I’d like to go back in time now to 1952, the year you graduated from Stanford Law School. You were among the top students in your class, along with William Rehnquist. And yet, no law ﬁrm would hire you. I applied to every firm that had a notice on Stanford’s placement bulletin board. Not a single

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probably good for the court’s reputation? I think it should be. Yes. Did you feel that the criticisms of Chief Justice Roberts were unfair? It doesn’t matter what I think. But I felt that he made a remarkable effort to try to keep the court on course, carefully considering and deciding these major issues. That’s the court’s job. In your 25 years on the court, did you ever hear justices talk about the politics of a problem rather than the merits of the case? I’m sure that from time to time justices would say to each other, “Gosh, this is a case that’s going to get members of the public stirred up.” I mean, you’re not an idiot. How can we rebuild the public’s confidence in the court? [We need] to teach people about the proper role of the U.S. Supreme Court. It isn’t a political branch of the government. It resolves legal disputes and interprets laws passed by Congress. We’re going through a period where apparently voters are more suspicious about the motives of the court, and that’s unfortunate. The court is the only branch of government that explains the reasons for its decisions. The health care opinion is more than 100 pages long. If people would stop to examine those reasons now and then, maybe they’d be more accepting of the process and the system. I would hope so. Since you stepped down from the court, you’ve been working to teach young people about how our govern-

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one would even give me an interview. So I had an undergraduate woman friend whose father was a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and I asked her if she’d talk to her father and see if he could get me an interview. And she did and he did, and I went down to L.A. and [met] with this distinguished man. He looked at my résumé: “Oh, you have a fine résumé, Ms. Day, fine. But Ms. Day, this firm has never hired a woman lawyer. I don’t see the time when we will.” Did he say why? “Our clients wouldn’t stand for it.” That was his answer. [Then] he said, “Well, how well do you type?” I said, “So-so.” And he said, “If you can type well enough, I might be able to get you on as a legal secretary.” I said, “That isn’t the job that I want to find.” Where did you go from there? I heard on the grapevine that the county attorney in San Mateo once had a woman lawyer on the staff, so I wrote him a letter. He said, “I’ve hired everyone I’m authorized to hire and I’m not funded for another one, so I just don’t have a slot for you.” And he said, “In addition to that, I don’t have an empty office.” So I said to him, “Well, I really would like very much to work in your office. I’ll work for you for nothing until such time in the future as you get a little money and can pay me something.” So that’s how you got your start. …

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CASE BY CASE

HER BIGGEST DECISIONS

Five landmark opinions that helped Justice Sandra Day O’Connor make her mark on history.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD V. CASEY (1992) “Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt,” begin O’Connor and Justices Souter and Kennedy in an opinion upholding the court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. “Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but that cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.”

Mr. and Mrs. O’Connor take a spin around the dance ﬂoor at the annual Meridian Ball in Washington, D.C., in 1998.

started dating your future husband, John, you went out 40 nights in a row. Is that true? That’s right. We were assigned to check some law review article together. We hadn’t quite ﬁnished when the library closed, and he said, “Well, why don’t we take this down the highway to Dinah’s Shack over a beer.” So that’s what we did, and we had a blast. And the very next night, we were out again, and that continued for 40 nights in a row. Did you take him home to the ranch? Oh, I did, and it was terrible, yeah. The ﬁrst time I took him, we drove and my mother came out to greet us; you could see the car coming for miles away with the dust. I was happy to see her and have

BUSH V. GORE (2000) O’Connor acted as the swing vote in the historic 5-4 decision to uphold the Florida secretary of state’s original certiﬁcation of Florida’s electoral votes—effectively naming George W. Bush our 43rd president. Asked by Wolf Blitzer in 2010 “if the right man was selected,” she responded: “Well, the man who got the most votes. That’s what it comes down to at the end of the day.”

MCCONNELL V. FEC (2003) In the opinion for this 5-4 decision, O’Connor and Justice Stevens found the McCain/Feingold campaign ﬁnance reform law constitutional, accepting Congress’s determination that large soft-money contributions give rise to corruption. When the court overturned parts of her ruling in 2010, O’Connor said, “Gosh, I step away for a couple of years and there’s no telling what’s going to happen.”

her see John. And she said, “Well, your father’s branding some calves down in the corral.” I said, “Okay, we’ll go down and tell him hello.” The male calves, when they’d brand ’em, they’d just castrate them and throw the things in a bucket. The testicles? Testicles. They were just bloody, horrid things. [My father] put [a few] on some baling wire and put ’em in the branding fire, and he said, “I’ll just fix a few of these for you, John.” John, to his credit, took the things off the wire, popped ’em in his mouth, and said, “Very good, Mr. Day. Very good.” [laughs] I know you had a wonderful relationship with John for many years. John was one of the funniest people I have ever known. He made us laugh every single day. And he liked your directness. Well, I don’t know; we got along fine. [laughs] He didn’t sue for a divorce. Any number of people have told me how courageously you dealt with his Alzheimer’s. There wasn’t anything else to do. It’s a terrible disease. I hate it ’cause you lose the personality. The person you knew disappears. You seem to be moving forward now. [John passed away in 2009.] Life goes on. By this stage in life, most people would put their feet up and say, “I’ve had a good run. Now I’m going to rest and enjoy.” But you— I had a good life, and the reason it was a good life is because I stayed busy doing the things that mattered to me. If I stopped doing that, I think my whole life would disintegrate. I want to feel like, to the extent that I’m able to, I can still make a difference.

GRUTTER V. BOLLINGER (2003) With another 5-4 majority, the court upheld the constitutionality of a University of Michigan afﬁrmative action program. “In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry,” O’Connor said, “it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualiﬁed individuals of every race and ethnicity.” The court will revisit the issue next month.

HAMDI V. RUMSFELD (2004) O’Connor penned the court’s opinion declaring, in a reversal of Bush administration policy, that even citizens designated “enemy combatants” have the right to challenge their imprisonment “before a neutral decision maker,” asserting that “a state of war is not a blank check … when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.” —David Gergen and Michael Zuckerman

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No pay. And I put my desk in with his secretary. And I loved my job. I really did. Almost three decades later, you were appointed to the nation’s highest court. What do you think your appointment did for women in law? It opened lots of doors. Not only in the United States, but elsewhere, too. That’s what President Reagan thought would happen, and it did. Would you say that most of the barriers women lawyers once faced have come down? I think most of them have. There are still some issues at the top to deal with, as we all know. But in terms of general capacity to practice and earn a living, it’s opened up. It really [has]. Anne-Marie Slaughter sparked a heated conversation this summer when she published a piece in The Atlantic arguing that we’re selling young women a fiction when we tell them they can have it all. Do you agree? It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue. And you run into it again at the end of your parents’ lives, for instance, or your spouse’s. But I think that would be true in any society. You raised three sons. What advice do you give young women when it comes to motherhood and career? To try to fit it all in. I [tell] ’em it’s very difficult. I never took even an hour off to go get my hair done. Those are the things you give up. You only have so many hours in the day, and when you have kids, and kids in school, and you’re trying to feed the family and cook meals and be a mother and a wife and all those things, you’re going to give up a lot of things. But that’s okay. I mean, I preferred to hang on to my legal work. Returning to your law school days, I read that when you

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World’s Greatest Teacher A best-selling author goes back to his high school to thank the person who first encouraged him to write

he teacher who

changed my life didn’t do it by encouraging her students to stand on their desks, like John Keating in Dead Poets Society. Or by toting a baseball bat through the halls, like Principal Clark in Lean on Me. She did it in a much simpler way: by telling me I was good at something. When I met Ms. Shelia Spicer, I was in the ninth grade and had just moved to Florida from Brooklyn. Most of my teachers at Highland Oaks Junior High seemed to look past me; I was one more student among hundreds. Ms. Spicer, however, took a special interest. “You can write,” she said, explaining that she wanted to move me into the honors English class. But because of scheduling conﬂicts, transferring wasn’t an option. So instead, Ms. Spicer told me to ignore everything she wrote on the blackboard for the rest of the year. “Ignore the discussions. Ignore the assignments. You’re going to sit here and do the honors work.” A decade later, when my first novel was published, I went back to Ms. Spicer’s classroom and knocked on the door. “Can I help you?” she asked, trying to place me. I’d had a lot more hair the last time we saw each other. “My name is Brad Meltzer,” I said, handing her a copy of my

book. “And I wrote this for you.” Ms. Spicer began to cry. She’d been considering early retirement, she said, because she felt she wasn’t having enough of an impact on her students. I didn’t know how to make Ms. Spicer understand what she’d done for me: Thanks to her, I fell in love with Shakespeare. (In fact, she once forced me to read the part of Romeo while a girl I had a crush on read Juliet.) I learned how to compose an essay. It was her belief

in me that gave me the conﬁdence to become a writer. I owed her. Thirteen years later, when I heard that she was ﬁnally ready to retire, you better believe I was at her going-away party. It felt a little like sneaking into the faculty lounge: I wanted to surprise Ms. Spicer, so

“SHE TOLD ME TO IGNORE EVERYTHING SHE WROTE ON THE BOARD.”

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

Twenty-seven years later, Ms. Spicer’s still head of the class.

I tried to blend in. But as I sipped my water and eavesdropped on school gossip, I had a troubling thought: What if Ms. Spicer wasn’t as great as I remembered? I was suddenly terrified that reality might destroy my memory of the woman who had inspired me so deeply. Overdramatic, I know, but true. I was hiding in a corner when one of the teachers called everyone’s attention to the presentation of a parting gift—a crystal vase. All Ms. Spicer needed to do was say a few words thanking everyone for coming. Instead, she stood up and delivered a stem-winding speech that began like this: “For those of you complaining that kids have changed, and that it’s harder to teach these days, you’re getting old. You’re getting lazy. These kids haven’t changed. You have! Do. Not. Give. Up. On. These. Kids!” When she finished her rallying cry, the crowd burst into applause, and I was ready to apply for a teaching certificate. That was the woman I remembered! I went up to Ms. Spicer and thanked her for changing my life all those years ago. I realized that night that I was still, and would forever be, her student. Oh, and my crush who read the part of Juliet? I married her. I owe Ms. Spicer for that, too. Brad Meltzer’s newest thriller, The Fifth Assassin, will be out in January. His nonfiction books Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter profile remarkable people from Amelia Earhart to Randy Pausch to, of course, Ms. Shelia Spicer.

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