six-month long process of negotiating and ok'ing -- ok'ing the deal and looking at an x-ray of sam bowie'sg and other things we were able to roach an agreement. and so i ended up owning the team. so that's my -- of the two franchises that's my longest owned nba -- professional franchise. >> and then the seahawks. >> and then the seahawks. and that was -- that was a matter of basically siffing leaders coming to me and saying, look, the team is going to end up in los angeles unless someone local steps forward and wants to take ownership of the team. and i knew that the facility the team played in, the kingdome, needed to be -- we needed to have a new facility and redone. so i made that conditional on a referendum. we had the referendum. we had a very narrow vote. and we were able to build a new facility and i exercised my option to buy the team. and owning any professional sports franchise, i think, is a real -- it's an obligation to the community or the -- where the team plays. you have to really try to deliver an exciting team. run the franchise the right way. and you're going to have ups

james bowie, sam houston, davy crockett, heroes of the alamo, really.he junior high schools were named for the battles. the alamo, san jacinto, the battles of the texas revolution that led to texas being a country, the republic of texas, for 10 years and finally being annexed to the united states. somehow, i did not think robert e. lee fit in that group of texas heroes, but who knows. anyway, that is what my school was named. and we were segregated. george washington carver was the name of the high school. when we hosted the reunion, my high school reunion at the white house, we had kids -- not kids, they were 60 years old by then, from lee high school and george washington carver. that was the first time we met the students that were our age. >> did it surprise you when you first became first lady at the platform you are given and the voice you had? >> i knew that intellectually because i had seen my mother in law and the platform that she had to talk about literacy, which was her interest. i had seen lady bird johnson and how she influenced me at home