alberto gonzalez grew up in a family that went touchup every sunday.he also says helped make hem the man he is today. >> alberto gonzalez began his journey to become the 80th us attorney general in hum bolted, texas. >> we grew up pretty poor but you don't realize as a child how poor you are. >> one of eight kids gonzalez remembers a great childhood with his mothers eggs and tortilla for breakfast, baseball with brothers, and falling asleep in a two-bedroom house without hot water. >> i can remember taking a pale of water, bowling it on the stove, and taking it to the bathroom en order to take a bath. >> growing up, he didn't think much about college. a high school he joined the air force blanding at fort yukon alaska. >> that's when i thought they're seeing something why not me. >> why not me, he thought, when he left the academy to attend rice university and again when he was accepted at six different law schools before choosing harvard. in 1988 he declined a job off in president george hw bush's administration so he could stay on the partner track a