you'll be successful running against your handpicked successor, taft. it's edith who says put it out of your mind, theodore, you will never be president of the united states again. ouch, but she was right. she could see the political namics better than her husband who was president of the united states. >> you write about roosevelt's reluctance to join william mckinley's ticket as vice president in 1900. ultimately he agrees and then, of course, six months into mckinley'stern, he's assassinate and roosevelt ascends to the presidency. as we had the into a presidential election with the two oldest nominees in american history, what should we be thinking about when it comes to considering the significance of the choice of the vice president? >> well, it is a consequential decision. i mean, the decision of vice president -- you know, t todore hated being vice president. he said it was -- >> you write about how the loves of theodore roosevelt knew he would hate being vice president because as john adams quipped it's the most useless job in washington. >> he