host: we started talking about the supreme court, joe torre, elena kagan, marshall.f you were ever appointed to the supreme court, where would you fit on the political spectrum? noah: i don't think there are any lawyers who do not fantasize about being on the supreme court, but it is a wise lawyer who knows it is just a fantasy. i would like to think that i would be like frankfurter and try to follow constitutional principle wherever it led, regardless of the teams on the other side. that would be my aspiration. we all know that our best aspirations are not always carried through. i don't want to be too confident. that would be my goal. host: what would you call your own politics? noah: i would call myself a moderate centrist liberal. i'm from massachusetts. i am a registered democrat and have been my whole life. but i work for what was the bush administration when i went to iraq. it wasn't a political appointment, but it was the government of bush, and i was proud to do that and represent my country. i worked for justice souter who was a republican appointee, but wa

justice elena kagan: he brought a sense of humor to almost everything he did. he teased people, he ribbed people. would make you laugh, make you cry, make you do it allat the same time. he was the most extraordinary storyteller i've ever heard. roger wilkins: and the shambling kind of folksy thing that marshall did, very shrewd. you didn't realize the brilliance and the flexibility that he brought to bear with the way he used language and the way he used his own body. and it worked. narrator: by the late 1930s marshall was traveling 30.000 miles a year, often alone and with little money. sometimes he would visit 2 or 3 different cities in a single day. and when he was home, he and buster made the best of their time together (music) ♪ harlem is harmony, love is a melody, harlem is harmony, ♪ ♪harlem is harmony, harlem is harmony, harlem is harmony. ♪ jose anderson: marshall took advantage of the culture of harlem. boxing matches with joe louis and dinners and music. narrator: thurgood and buster arrived as the harlem renaissance was coming to a close, but the ef