so felix frank if you are terr. >> this is interesting gloo born in the old country. comes to the united states at age 12 not knowing one world of english. bar mitts vad. >> gds to aee shee va. >> for a while. >> in med sty because they thought it was the safest school for him. then what happened. >> at the age of 15 he decides judism is not for him. he becomes a self-proclaimed agnostic. he goes to city college, then harvard law school, where he's at the top of his class. by the way, i have the first published photograph of him at his harvard law school dorm in the book. but he wanted very much to become part of the prot stant elite in the country. he married the daughter of a prot stant minister. his mother did not attend the wedding. he never set foot in a temple or synagogue in his adult life except to give an occasional lecture. but here is the par docks. in his will to the surprise and shock even to his prot stant wife wife and most of his friends he asked that the traditional jewish prayer of mourning be recited at his funeral. >> by. >> by he specified lewis h

felix frankfurt. he served on the court for two weeks with brandeis before he retired. frankfurter and fdr met at a lunch at new york's harvard club. >> who's next? >> next is -- >> frank fuffurter passes away. >> he retired in 1962, passes away in 1965. all of the jewish justices were liberal justices by any definition. frankfurter had been a flaming liber liberal, but he became more and more conservative in his 23 years on the court. and when he resigned in 1962, he was the most conservative member of the court. and he became a prophet or advocate of judicial restraint. anyway, john f kennedy had -- he was probably the best known labor lawyer in the country. president kennedy appointed him secretary of labor. and he served the shortest tenure, less than three years on the court. >> we're going to come back for sure. >> lbj persuaded him to leave a lifetime position. he lived until 1991. to accept a position of ambassador of the united nations. he had a falling out with lbj and he was out of the u.n. in two and a half years. >> he's out and who's in? >> lbj's closest political advisor for many years. >> are we going to talk about landslide lyndon? >> landslide lyndon.