roscoe conkling wants to elect grant to a third term. and then you have all these independent reformist candidates who are also gunning for the nomination and enough republican bosses can read the tea leaves that they see that none of these none of these candidates are going to win the presidency or they're not going to, even if they win the nomination they're going to present a fractured republican party. so they're looking for somebody who can bind this shattered coalition together. and they all start showing up. the minority leaders doorstep in washington on i street, and they all say, you're the only man who can possibly, you know, be this dark horse candidate who who everybody can find agreeable and. garfield is genuinely terrified by this prospect. he is and witnessed over the course of his congressional career that so many politicians in dc decide to run for the presidency and in doing so actually ruin their political. he's seen this so many times that he actually coins a name for it. he calls it the president shall fever and he w