Remembering Summers

Larry Summers, at the last Federalist Society Student Symposium, held at HLS:

His welcome was certainly warm, as he entered the room to a grand round of applause. The applause even extended to the overflow rooms, two floors away, where another two hundred attendees watched his speech and the following panel on video screens. After he was introduced, applause again broke out on both levels, and as audience members began to rise to their feet, he motioned them back to their seats: "Thank you very much, I think," he began. "Let me remind you, I am a Democrat."