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Switching gears a little bit, I wanted to ask you about the, sort of the public perception of Michelle Obama to the extent that you have to grapple with it. During the campaign, the sort of prism was, Is she radical? Is she too negative? Is she this, is she that? And since the Inauguration, there's a Pew poll that says even among Republican women, since the Inauguration, since January, your approval rating has gone up 21 points or something like that, to high levels, even by First Lady standards. What do you make of that shift...
...walk Bo, usually no one is screaming, or whatever. So there are just ways that you can either be in the midst of all the excitement, and there are many ways you can avoid it. And the longer you're around, you learn all the little channels of sort of, Oh, I'm not going in that door, not right now. [Laughter...
...walk that line for them? It's different for you as an adult, but for your girls, they could be the ultimate role models too, which would be an enormous burden to ... except it sort of comes with the fact that they are the most ... they are the children in the world that people are most interested in. So how do you help them walk the line of normal vs. the position they're in? We stay 100% in their world all the time. And I don't know if you understand that, but their lives are very disconnected from...
What time is that? That's usually right before bed, it's like 10:00 p.m. We sort of handle Bo like we did the kids. I'm the early-morning person, and he covers the - you know, once I go to bed I don't care what happens. Just make sure the dog doesn't have an accident. [Laughter...
...destroyed anything yet [Laughter.] eaten a shoe or ... Oh, no, no. He's been ... although he's getting to the point where he can be naughty, like he can ... like you walk in the room and it's like, "Where'd you get that sock?" But he sort of knows that he's not supposed to have it, so he doesn't completely destroy it. He just kind of puts it down and walks away ... [Laughter.] "You caught...