where is your wife, geraldine, from? >> she's from hillsboro, texas. i was covering the hill for the "wall street journal." >> you say she hates politics. >> she really does. she is a saint. but she had to be a saint to live with me all these years. we were married in 1962. she really doesn't like politics at all. she started off as a democrat, and she's a registered republican now. >> you have two children. one -- at least you mentioned in the book -- worked for regnery publishing. >> alex. and the other one, zelda, worked for you at one point. who do you want to read this book? and what's the message here? because you paint a story of being very connected in washington for all these years. >> i would like to have people who are interested in politics, interested in government, who have watched me on television, maybe have read the column, to show what the real washington is like, what i'm like, what i really think, what moved me, how i moved from a, shall we say, a center-left position to a right-wing position. >> the people, i think, that are the ma