as you walk from the beginning, you can see john marshall, upton taft, charles evans hughes, earl warren. at present there are of all of the chief justices. in a certain sense, you're walking through the whole history of the court. >> the story of the court is designed not only by its different chiefs over time but also through continual addition of new associate justices to the bench. >> the white house operator tells you that the president is on the line. i have my cell phone in my right hand and i had my left hand over my chest trying to calm my beating heart literally. and the president got on the phone and said to me, judge, i would like to announce you as my selection to be the next associate justice of the united states supreme court. and i said to him, i caught my breath and started to cry and said thank you, mr. president. >> judge society mare are you prepared to take the oath? >> i am. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i sonia sotomayor do slunly swear -- >> just white always used to say when the court gets a new member, it changes everything, it changes eve

and in 1933, march of 19be 33 franklin roosevelt and charles evans hughes exchanged letters. and franklin roosevelt wanted to know if he could recite the entire oath, not just saying, i do. and in asking hughes if that was okay he remarked that a it was very interesting, he thought that one former new york governor was going to be administering the oath to another new york governor, and they each expressed great respect for each other and looked forward to their association, said hughes, and a common enterprise. so roosevelt is inaugurated president in 1933. by this time hughes had made a very strong record as a civil rights is and libertarian. he wrote some very important decisions protecting freedom of the press, for example, and freedom of association. but what got him and roosevelt on a collision course was the constitutional challenges to the new deal legislation. larry in 19 -- particularly in 1935 and 1936. the hughes court began to strike down one piece of new deal legislation after another. now, hughes was actually a centrist. he was neither a conservative, nor a libe