The narrator before and after the piece used a light tone to introduce the piece, and added a note at the end, saying, "The First Lady said she had always wanted to do that."

It was interesting to see the First Lady "let her hair down" so to speak, and make fun of her husband. She called herself a "desperate housewife" because of her husband's legendary early bedtime, and also poked fun at his intellect when she said, "I was the librarian who spent 12 hours a day in the library and yet somehow I met George." The President chuckled at many of her remarks, and the piece cut from the First Lady to the President and his reaction several times. The banter seemed good natured, and the piece gave the idea that the First Lady enjoyed her speech. So did the crowd, the piece ended with their giving her...
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