>> being the one who shot j.r.uestion and i'm really big in really small countries. >> couric: speaking of trivia, "whodunit" was, at the time, the most watched t.v. episode ever with a whopping 76 share and an estimated audience of 350 million people worldwide. when you heard the numbers, what did you think? >> money. >> couric: ( laughs ) oh, my god! >> sorry! ( laughs ). >> couric: in fact, hagman would eventually go on to earn a reported $250,000 per episode and play j.r. ewing for 11 more years. did you ever get tired of j.r.? >> never. never. it was always a challenge. always fun. and being at work that long was fun. how many actors get a chance to do that? >> couric: and it looks like there could be more fun in store for hagman. a new version of "dallas" is coming to cable, and he says he's ready to play j.r. again if the money's right. once a ewing, always a ewing. that's the "cbs evening news." i'll have more of larry hagman's memories this weekend on "sunday morning." until then, i'm katie couric, thank y

. >> couric: remember when j.r. bit the bullet? and everyone from his mother to his miss stress had a motive? 350 million tuneded in 30 years ago to find out who shot j.r.? when you heard the numbers, what did you think? >> money. >> reporter: a serving of 1980s nostalgia later on sunday morning. >> osgood: devotees of a certain regional delicacy are feeling sandwiched in these days. they're fighting to save the meal they love. bill geist will be experiencing that firsthand. >> reporter: rarely in history comes an important sandwich. a new orleans po-boy is that sandwich. the new orleans po-boy preservation society says that as a symbol of the city's resurgence, the endangered sandwich must be saved. later on sunday morning. >> osgood: also on menu mo rocca does brunch. bobby flay sings the praises of pumpkins. allen pizzey tastes golden pasta. rita braver gets the pretzels while mary peterson brings the beer. but first president obama is back in washington after a two- day nato summit in portugal. among other issues, leaders discu

j.r. flirting with the idea of extending them for everybody -- is a are flirting with the idea of extending them for everybody. >> we are all in deficit hawks now. >> in the end, the only way to solve the problem is with entitlements and growth and raising income taxes, marginal taxes, by at least 13 persons on on what will amount to half of the small business income in america. it is not a wise way to promote employment and growth in the middle of a bad recession. that is the argue against it. the best solution is to extend them temporarily, and when the economy improves, and then you terminate them. >> although most people do not know it because god only knows what president trauma -- why president barack obama did not tell them, there were significant tax cuts in the stimulus package. to add more now, i think it is fiscally irresponsible especially for people making more than $250,000, but that will not stop it from happening. if it is christmas time. >> wrong guy. [laughter] >> the nex

. >> he doesn't have that larger than life j.r. ewing kind of thing going on at all, but he was definitely willing to take big risks and make big, big bets. >> narrator: browne surrounded himself with a small group of executives, including bob dudley, tony hayward, and john manzoni, known inside the company as his "turtles." >> as in ninja turtles, rising stars in the bp corporate structure who he thought, one day, had the ability or the potential to lead the company. >> narrator: until then, browne set the agenda. it was browne who took the company on a gigantic buying spree. >> john wanted to be the biggest. he was competing with mobil, competing with exxon, competing with chevron. and he was bound and determined to use mergers and acquisitions as the lever to propel bp into the big leagues. >> by merging our assets and our prospects with those of amoco... >> narrator: browne began by purchasing amoco. >> if you put the two together, you have a world-class set of complementary assets. >> narrator: then, quickly, browne would buy

it's the j.r. east water company that's come up with this.hat? >> it's very sophisticated. it has 106 flavors. it's such sophisticated technology as well, it's the same exact technology that will create dialysis and cancer drugs in that amount. that's how sophisticated it is. >> let's go back to tokyo for a second. do you have to walk up to it so it knows you are about to buy a drink or you can be walking by? >> no. you have to stand in front of it. the minute a person stands in front, automatically and very quickly. that's what's so extraordinary about the advanced technology. a couple seconds. >> is there criticism of it? >> there is some sense of big brother and what next. also, what are they doing with the data? for example, with the freestyle machine, the data goes to the coca-cola company. this one goes to a data company. maybe big brother is out there telling us what to drink. >> what's next. >> always nice talking to you. >> they have lattes in the machine. >> i'm a gatorade, water guy. my doctor got me on something. >> coke zero. >>

bowen, j.r. was on the provisional authority, and since 2004 he's been the inspector general for iraq reconstruction as the taxpayer's watchdog in iraq, he oversees more than $56 billion in u.s. appropriated reconstruction funds including the iraq relief and reconstruction fund, the iraq security forces fund, the economic support fund, and the commanders emergency response program. since january 2004, he is made 27 trips to iraq, and i understand in a couple days that'll be 28, managed the production of over 350 audits, and provided over 27 quarterly reports on iraq reconstruction on the congress. his service career includes service in the white house as deputy assistant to the secretary and associate counsel. he held a variety of positions, texas governor george bush's staff including deputy general counsel, deputy general counsel for litigation, and assistant general counsel. mr. bowen served as attorney general of texas and stream court justice. he holds a ba from the university of the south a