[applause] >> wasn't she an amazing first lady in so many ways, and i want tti matson, whoa i covered at the beginning of the ford administration, you had already been hired as a speechwriter and deputy press secretary for pat nixon, and you told me once that she had a keen eye for what was appropriate, and she was very much shaped by her growing up, how hard she worked, and that work ethic. patti: it is one of the things that i think was so important about her. i have been in television, politics, and i've known a lot of people who work hard, but this one takes the cake. in full bore, and the first thing i noticed, really my first day on the job, can you all hear me back there? it was when you said -- sent something up to her that needed her input overnight, literally it was on your desk the next morning before you got in. it did not metal if -- matter if there had been a state dinner, treateda job, and she as such. day-to-day really handling of constituents was so important to her, it was one of the first things that she said to me and our job interview, that she considered people t