we hope that some of these stories have inspired you to get involved and do your part because you, too, can be somebody s hero. thank you and good night. [ cheers and applause ] what s it like being billie jean king? i have no idea. i think since i was young, i mean i told my mother at 7, mommy, mommy, i m going to do something great with my life. i know it. i can feel i it. being billie jean king means knknowing from the beginning sh was destined for greatness. i knew the first t time i we off to getet free inststructionh in lonong beach, i i knew at t d of thahat session n i wanted t the numbmber one tenennis playe the worlrld. h how old werere you? i was 1 11. that w was only ththe second t picked up a racket. she quickly fell in love with the sport but also quickly noticed deep inequities in tennis that reflected the same about ththe world. at t 12, i was s playing ata los angegeles tennisis club. all the big tournamements were therere. i i was sittining i
as i formrmer fbi agent and chairmrman of the hohouse intelligenence committttee i i ovoversight ofof all o of ouours intelligenence a agencies. mymy name is m mike rorodgers. i i had accessss t to classifif informrmation gaththered by ouo opereratives, pepeople who risk evererything f for the uniniteds and our r familieses. you don n t know t their f face their nanames. you u don t knowow the r real l from the people whwho live theh fear and t the pressurure until. you wouould looook at me and a nice ladady y probably v very personon, very outgoining, an o wowoman who hahas a retitired ld goeses to church. but my life wawas nonot normal.. it w was a a lie. everyoyone thoughtht i was j ju momom. they n never knew w what i wasa actutually doioing.. becacause i i lied t to eveveryt who i was. fofor almost 3 32 years. but i dididn t do itit for the thrillll of it. i did it becausese i i h had to. octctober 19th,h, 1972, i be a wiwidow. afteter that, i madede it t to . i th