. >> highpoint on the smithsonian board? how long were you there and how long were you chair? >> i am on the board for a nether few days. it runs out at the end of december. the term was 12 years. the senate and the house have to approve and the president signs off on. there were a hundred wings that were high points -- things that were highpoint. one is i will continue on and i am still a board member for the new national museum for african american history and culture. n theis a very large hole i ground. artifacts and heritage and storytelling that is going on. the groundbreaking for that means down on the mall in the shadow of the washington monument that often had slave labor to build many of the buildings in this town with the president obama, our first african-american president, and to know this beautiful museum will tell all of america's story and be part of making the decision to help him build the institution. >> when will it open? for 2015.atural we have a lot to build and collect. >> how much money has been collected and how much is needed? >> $400 million. half wil

she was on the board of the banks, national geographic, smithsonian. she would keep large envelopes on her sofa with either the title or the dates on them so that she could pick them up, work on them and close everything back in them. if she worked on her desk with letters she was processing, when she was processing, which he -- when she completed things she would put them on the floor. but she stayed at the office most of the day, making phone calls are working on projects that she loved so much. she loved this office because she could look out at her alma mater and then a quarter through -- and then a corridor through to the capital. in the city she looked so much. -- city she loved so much. she would stay here all day and that was pretty much monday through friday. when we were having guests at the ranch she would sometimes go out a few days early and stay in the different guestrooms to check on the water and the lights to be sure everything was working like the tv in the different rooms. we would also make a stop on the way out to the ranch to the

course you have the smithsonian but also the national postal museum, the national building museum and the national bonsai museum. but the one museum that stayed on the drawing board decade is a national women's history museum. joining me are two representatives fighting to change that. we rarely see backing anything together. new york democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney and tennessee congresswoman marsha blackburn. it's good to have both of you here, thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> so you're co-sponsors of this bill to try to make this museum a reality. it took you five years just to move a seven-ton statue out of the capitol crypt into the capitol rotundrotunda. is this a sign of why it's taken so long for this museum to get up and running? >> well, it always seems to take more effort for anything pertaining to women, but marsha and i are determined to pass this bill and we have strong bipartisan support with senator collins and muikalski. a spot on the mall or near the mall is a bipartisan initiative dedicated to honoring women and their important contributions to our country and our history andin piand inspiring a new generation of leaders. little girl