i was troubled by a quote that i had read in law school that i never know who -- i didn't know who the author of the statement. it always struck me as interesting because it went like this. versatility of circumstance often mocks the natural desire for definitiveness. and i asked -- since we didn't ask anything else to do, i asked you two gentlemen who said that and where? and i think justice breyer said, why don't you google it. and i said, i already did. [laughter] but when you think about that statement, i think bob dylan might have said it differently. he wrote a song called "things have changed." and i can understand that a little bit better. but the good news is, because of the cooperation of you two gentlemen, i now know that felix frankfurter said that. and he said that in a case called weiner versus u.s.

or u.s. versus weiner, and i think president eisenhower was the president. he wasn't supposed to do something but he did it anyway. versatility of circumstance often mocks the natural desire. justice frankfurter said it very well. things have changed. we thank you so much. thank you for the work you do for this country, and this meeting is now adjourned. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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