ed tuttle fidgets, she's citing cases, but there are others on the other side. sometimes the court does one thing, sometimes another. sometimes the justices say one thing, sometimes they say something else. so what? it's all just words. he's had it up to the proverbial here with all the words. he interrupts cox's string of citations. counselor, says ed, i can't help but notice that like your opponent you insist on framing your argument with words. [laughter] does the strength of your argument rely on the presumption that words mean something rather than nothing? [laughter] ed is looking intently at cox. the lawyer blinks once, then again. ed imagines he can hear her eyelids close and open like in an early morning cartoon, blink, blink. the question, understandably, has thrown off the cool nerve of texas' top arguer. in all the many practice arguments she had staged to get ready, not once did any of the lawyers playing justices ask her to share assumptions regarding the capacity of language to convey meaning. i just had not come up. [laughter] it just had not com

tuttle's mantle of leadership is heavy but it has been carried on by so many others. marjorie douglas made another kind of south florida history when she worked tirelessly to save her beloved everglades. her books "the everglades: river of grass" helped preserve this one of a kind ecological wonder and led the fight to establish the everglades national park. judge soto is a modern day heroine. she's a fellow graduate of florida international university and the university of miami. she made judicial history when she was named chief judge of florida's 11th judicial circuit. she is both the first cuban american and the first woman to helm the largest judicial circuit in the state. judge soto's energy and understanding of complex legal issues have driven her to success and every day that judge soto is hard at work, she is not only living but making south florida history. congratulations to her. i also want to honor our female pilots of world war ii, the women air service -- air force service pilots, also known as the wasp. they were responsible for removing the barriers f

. >> elbert tuttle.nd he would never have had a midlife crisis. >> that's great. >> i want to go back to you on your book. whatwhat concerns did you have about writing fiction about real figures like justice black, frankfurter? you also used real names of other characters like eugene bressman and some others. was that -- why did you do that, and was a tricky? >> in some cases it was, particularly with jean for reasons i won't go into because it would spoil a bit of the plot, but generally i was guided by two principles. you can't libel the dead let's give me a little bit of a sense of freedom. but there is a difference between fact and truth and insight or illumination. you can imagine a bad biography that gives you a bunch of disconnected facts, and you would not say you got any truth or insight. you can imagine a better biography that gives you facts about a person but arranges them in a way so that the tell a compelling story and makes connections between them and highlight something and downplays oth