bill paxon, who is a good friend of mine, anticipated i was going to say that. he called my wife first and said, you know, denny's going to have to do this and -- you know -- so i called her. i thought jean would say -- you know, she doesn't live in washington. we didn't keep our home in washington. she didn't necessarily want to get involved in everything. she was teaching school at the time. and i would think -- i had thought that she'd say, well, you know, just for our life, we can't really -- can't do this. and so i called. it was the first day of christmas vacation, and i was anticipating -- you know, she was home. it's was the first day home. it was a saturday morning. and i called her up and said, what are you doing? and i thought she -- well, i'm baking cookies or fixing the tree or doing something like that. and she said, well, i'm watching tv. and i said, well, you know what's going on here. and she said yes, i know. i said, well, what do you think? they want me to be speaker. said, well, you have to do what you think's right. and so i thought about it