yet equally important types of people: the goofballs that run around stirring up trouble, and the eggheadsig deal out of it. these are their stories. you'll be better off without her. she was perfect. warm, smart, beautiful. i'm never gonna find another dental hygienist like that. well, you should stop hitting on her. hey, she's the one putting her hands in my mouth. hey! over here. move along, nothing to see here. first time those words have been true. when you called me down here at midnight, i expected more than a yam. since you said, "there's been a murder."

used to call him an egghead and his followers eggheads, and he made fun of that.reached people. he had a great sense of humor. one time he gave a speech, i was with him in san francisco. a woman came up to him after a speech. she said, "governor stephvenson after that speech, every thinking american is going to vote for you." he said, well, thank you, madam, unfortunately, i need a majority. he knew what the situation was. >> next call for our guests comes from nashville, tennessee. hi, martin. you're on "the contenders." >> caller: hi, hi, thank you. great show. i was going to touch on this intellectual thing. my father was an academic. i grew up in washington, d.c. as a child of the '60s. i remember my father talking about how great adlai stevenson was, what a brilliant man he was, what an intellectual, of course, he never won. but the reason i'm calling, i was struck by that 1952 electoral map. seems like the starkman strategy won since he got the southern states, but strangely enough, he didn't get tennessee or his own state illinois. what to make of that? tha

they used to call them an egghead. he is to make fun of that. egghead's of the world unite.thing to lose but your yolks. i think he reached people. he had a great sense of humor. one time he gave a speech in san francisco. a woman came of to him after the speech and said governor, after that speech, every thinking american is going to vote for you. and he said, thank you, madame. unfortunately, i need a majority. he knew what the situation was. >> next call comes from tennessee. >> thank you. it is a great show. my father was an academic and i grew up in washington, d.c. and remember my father talking about how great adlai stevenson was. the reason i am calling this the i was struck by the 1952 electoral map. it seems like a sparkman strategy one. -- won. he did not get tennessee and he did not give his own state, illinois. >> i think it pained him that in i'd read those presidential elections, he won illinois. he had been elected governor of illinois by the largest margin in the history of the state. they elected this new deal liberal democrats and it was not surprising tha

unlike woodrow wilson, he's a professor and an egghead. theodore roosevelt, he's a man, he's very manly. listen to -- here is some quotes from roosevelt. "i wish to preach the doctrine of the strenuous life. i took the canal zone in panama and let congress debate and while the debate goes on, the canal does also." when he ran for presidency in 1912 rather than saying i am announcing my candidacy. he says "my hat is in the ring and the fight is on." here is what he says about war. "no triumph of peace is quite so great as its supreme triumph of war. just war in the long run is far better than a man's soul than the most prosperous peace. or, is good or masculine" we do not admire the man of timid peace. it is because of their greatness coming to an end. are we still in the prime of your lusty youth and beginning of our manhood to sit down to out warn people and taking our place with the weak and the craven of a thousand times? no. theodore roosevelt is just as manly and depressiaggressive as get. in 1912 when he's running for the presidency

it begins the branding of the democratic party as being intellectual, egghead, effete, and liberal. 1956 would complete that. the death of the intellectual in politics. john f. kennedy figured out immediately that he couldn't campaign like this in 1960. in an unfortunate way, stevenson's gifts as a writer of speeches and a deliverer of those written speeches brings the death of that kind of intellectualism in american politics. the point where i would argue that we haven't seen it since. that doesn't mean that he couldn't be a cutthroat politician. stevenson decides right from the start that harry truman isn't going to play any role in this campaign. he lets slip three days after the nomination that there's a mess in washington. there was a mess in washington, but a democrat was at the center of it. and the president of the united states to boot. what would have happened had stevenson and sparkman allowed truman to campaign for them? well, you do that at your own peril. hubert humphrey shut out lyndon johnson in 1968 because of the war in vietnam. al gore shut out bill clinton in 2000. t

he's an egghead. he's weak. theodore roosevelt, that's a man. he's very -- he's very manly. so listen to -- here's some of -- some quotes from roosevelt. i wish to preach not the doctrine of ignobled ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life. while president, i have been president emphatically. i took the canal zone in panama and let congress debate. while the debate goes on, the canal does also. when he ran for the presidency in 1912, rather than saying, i am announcing my candidacy, he said, my hat is in the ring. the fight is on and i am stripped to the buff. here's what he said about war. no triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war. a just war in the long run is far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace. in strict confidence, i should welcome almost any war for i think this country needs one. war is good. it's masculine. we do not admire the man of timid peace. when great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it's because their greatness is coming to an end. are we still in the prime of our lusty youth? still at the beg