they were supporting isenhour forbade republican nomination and they relied on people like clark gable or helen hayes to come out and speak on his the house and support him as a candidate. one of the interesting things about the 1952 campaign is that the democrats have been in power for 20 years. roosevelt had taken them through the depression and taken them through most of world war ii. truman had his own term and now many people in the country felt there needed to be a change in government. the republican front-runner was a man named senator robert taft and taft was from an old republican family in ohio. his father had been president and he was known in party circles as mr. republican. isenhour came in and the taft people were immediately concerned about the emergence of a celebrity candidate. they called him a glamour candidate. it's hard for us to imagine isenhour being labeled as the glamour candidate but to the die-hard taft people that's exactly what he representative. isenhour came in and there was a big struggle between traditional republicans and many of these people were not

it's "a" -- clark gable. >> well, how was it? >> you know, cap, i don't think those germans like us. >> he flew with the 351st bombardment, making a documentary called "combat america." >> in march 1947, gas station owner art lacey shows up at altus army airfield in oklahoma, cash in hand, to purchase a surplus world war ii bomber and fly it back to portland, oregon. >> he said, "i'm thinking i might buy myself a b-17 and put it over a gas station. >> so, what happened when he said, "hey, i'm here to buy a b-17"? >> it was all controlled by the war assets administration officer, and he was able to strike a deal on a plane. it was $13,750. >> but there's a hitch. >> he didn't know how to fly any aircraft that had more than one engine, and a b-17 has four. he also needed to have a co-pilot, and he didn't have one. >> so in art's telling, he just wings it. >> he said it looked like it was about a mile off where the tower was, and nobody could tell what was going on. >> he slid it across the runway. [ crashing ] and he crashed it int

. >> clark gable. >> he's having resurgence he was in guardians of the galaxy two.ht rider. before we go, i just wanted to give a present to the audience just thank you for watching me. >> a love letter. >> on the show and i recorded this for you. muscles and all. tan and all. i wanted you to experience this. roll this tape. i'm sorry in advance for anybody at home eating breakfast. but this is me attempting my own slow motion run at a 120 frames per second i will say this. this next part you'll about to see was not planned. die not intend to fall. i really wanted to run through this. >> it's the socks. [ laughter ] >> it was the american flag socks. >> and -- >> and he's down. >> the american flag socks make it, though. thanks moo my buddy letting me borrow that outfit. he's a reporter in miami. i have no bathing sue. i have to do this in my suit, underwear or that. >> thankfully it was that. >> thanks kev. >> you're welcome. >> on a monday. >> enjoy. >> i hope the fan of the day liked it. >> we'll find out. >> hope we didn't lose the fan of the day. >> we'll be ba