written about, bipartisan, how harry truman picked hoover to run the hoover commission. and people don't do that anymore. and the fact is that fdr said, i'm going to pick the guy i just beat. and i was afraid of him a bit. i'm going to make him my emissary to europe. three, two -- >> he had a famous dinner with wilke the night before his third inauguration. he stayed up until midnight talking, having a few glasses of wine, and gave him a hand-written note as his emissary. wilke went over there, saw what was pledge was going to london, came back, and made an impassioned plea for lease, and it passed, and fdr gave him full credit for it. >> if he survived, he didn't have good health. dead pretty much four years. if he would have survived, the republican party might be a different party if he had won in '48. >> it might very well have. but by supporting len lease, he probably ruined his chances to get that nomination in '44, as you point out. he was ill, so that precluded it.