michaelson is a little different about doing that. i am not worried so much about judges who hope you fail. about eight of my future colleagues on the court -- i could tell that they would not vote for my confirmation. it did not bother me. what bothers me more is the idea that a sitting judge or justice would talk to the president and that sets up a very bad relationship and expectation. there is a dependence that i think is a bad idea. it is counter to the idea of collegiality. the most famous example is an historical fact, the reason justice blackmun was appointed to the supreme court was that warren burger, the chief justice, suggested his name to the white house. i think it set up a pore dynamic for the two of them to work together. perhaps the chief justice and expected more. he had to pull away and show he was his own man. ultimately, he did not work out well. i have been pleasantly surprised every time there is a nomination to my court, somebody i don't know, i am always fretful. as it turns out, i have been exceedingly lucky.

mike michaelson, our friend, washington, d.c. . we talk to him during are making of the documentary about the capital. he tells an interesting historical story when puerto rican nationalists fired shots. >> march 1, 1954, that is when the four puerto ricans enter the capital, the house gallery, where i was working, and began to shoot into the chamber. five members of congress were wounded. no one died. i was a staffer at that time in the gallery. the position was to set at the end tax of the gallery. we took notes and kept abreast of what was happening. at that time, we were debating a bill which was almost very much in the news today, called the -- it was a bill allowing immigrant workers from the south of our borders to come into california and arizona and mexico to work the fields and harvest the fruit and things like that. it was pretty controversial, even then. and i turned around and noticed people came in the door, to my left, and then i turned around and looked at them. i figured they were just tourists, like so many people