he had been recommended by felix frankfurter who said i think you should get owen roberts to do this, and roberts was a political judgment to get him there but he did the job, and of course later on earl warren and chaired the commission after president kennedy's assassination. and again, hard to imagine these today. you can't really imagine one of the big national commissions politicized and had a supreme court justice as the commission, and that is i think partly because of this idea the justices have kind of retreated into the temple that is the supreme court, and it's of course built like a temple, and appear magically from behind the red curtain, which you actually do before every oral argument, and should be treated as though there are, you know, either some secret religion or as demagogues. how this happened is a really interesting question, and i think it may have had something to do with watergate. at a time when the public if they're not have faith in the presidency, it can sort of see the other institutions of government as in some way also human. if human president has a