we even hosted the leader of china at our farmhouse in mcclain and my mom cooked and handled everythingrs at the white house too where my mother put aside her art career and gracefully, while not so dutifully, pulled off the role of white house wife. she hated the rules of the washington social bubble but thrived at my dad as chief adviser. my dad concedes he didn't follow the rules of the west wing either. let me ask you about the energy crisis where we, i think we had cars lining up at gas stations and i believe the white house had a policy at what level the air-conditioners could be at. would you like to come clean? >> yes, i'll make a public confession. >> please. >> the president said the air-conditioning -- what are those things called? the units that activate them? >> thermostat. >> yes, at 80. in other words, air-conditioning couldn't go on until the temperature of the room crossed 80. so, of course, i respected the president's decision, but i merely placed a lamp on a little table underneath the thermostat, which i turned on because it helped me read my materials sitting near t