doesn't like politics and is uncomfortable in the limelight in general. i think just as important if not more important were the kids. four kids, four daughters, three of them married. i don't think any of those children or inlaws, sons-in-law wanted to spend the next several months talking about the private life of the family. why the wife had left, why she had gone to california, remarried. why she came back. how the kids were affected by that. what did they think. how did they take it. the whole sort of soap opera aspect of it was one that he could not convince his wife let alone his kids to take part in. i think even though he wanted to do it himself, this was a barrier for him. >> this is the way, howard i want to read the way he put that in his statement. on matters affecting us all, our family constitution gives a veto to the women's caucus and there is no override provision.