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do he basically said i'm too old. i can do this. he wanted to be
secretary of defense. he wanted to be anything in government and
this was gratitude that the relationship that was forged without
question i think back in a time when thomas dewey identified
nixon as a young political person. >> just one thing to both of
those comments. i know after my father was nominated and
eisenhower and my father met come eisenhower admitted that he
didn't realize just quite how young my father was when he made
the decision to be the running mate. i don't think he realized
him he was 39, so he -- you thought he was 42? >> that's right.
39 years old. >> let me go at back to what david said about
governor dewey. that's exactly right. isenhour's campaign for
president was run by dewey, brownell and clay but do we is
always staying in the background because he had run and 48 and
44 and lost both times and do he remains very much in the
background but do he indeed