it's hard to think of somebody like franklin pierce. ou could include franklin roosevelt and their too. you look at presidents who faced existential challenges. if what they were doing didn't work out they would go to the republic. the founders face that existential challenge and i think it ingrained themselves in our national story because of their overcoming the challenges they face. lincoln faced that and i think you could say franklin roosevelt did too. so i guessed the last century being the 20th century may be roosevelt in terms of the challenges that he faced and overcame. >> from casper wyoming. >> oh wow that's my home. >> heading back there tomorrow. jan gray. lynne about madison's height he was only 5 feet or inches. he was a short as president and i want to know when your research did you find that he had any troubles because of that and especially with regard to his relationships with women? as you know he didn't get married until he was a lot older and dolly was 17 years younger than he was. mr. vice president were to ask y

franklin pierce adams one of my favorite humorist writers came up with an acronym which is a word for names of people whose names reflected who they were. like olga tom below for as a ballerina and there was a professor of engineering at annapolis. he loved the name d.c. current. [laughter] then there is banana republic which was zero henry's term for a dictatorial place that have only one crop or one mineral and of course he is down there hiding from the police because he was accused of stealing money from a bank of embezzlement. co-ed isn't out of place one. that is louisa may alcott. one of her books out of the blue one of her boy said he didn't like acholi diner he didn't like to e with the girls at school. it just pops out of nowhere. the other one which is on the cover that i just love is the first writer. it may have been used a little bit before but the very first writer used the word baseball -- we will go back to that in a second but there are these wonderful words that come out of the blue. another one that i really like is dragon lady. dragon lady was milked to death in th

franklin pierce adams, one of my favorite humorist writers, he came up with the term aptronym which isr names of people whose names reflected who they were. and one of his -- like olga tumblova as a ballerina. and there was a professor at annapolis, his name was d.c. current. [laughter] then there's banana republic which was o'henry's term for sort of a dictatorial mace that sort of had -- place that sort of had only one crop or one mineral, and they were -- and, of course, he's down there hiding from the police because he was accused of stealing money from a bank, of embezzlement. co-ed is a real out of place one, and that east louisa may alcott. one of the boys said he didn't like co-you would dining -- co-you would dining. -- co-ed dining. the other one that's on the cover that i just love is the fist writer, i found some -- it may have been used a little bit before, but the very first writer of the use of the word "baseball" is -- what am i -- [inaudible] we'll go back to that in a second. so there are these wonderful words that sort of come out of the blue. another one that i real

it's hard to think of somebody like franklin pierce. maybe you could include franklin roosevelt in there, too. you look at presidents who faced existential challenges. if what they were doing didn't work out, they would go the republic. the founders faced that kind of existential challenge, and i think it ingrained themselves in our national story because of their, overcoming the challenges they face. lincoln faced that, and i think you could say franklin roosevelt did, too. so i guess the less essentially the 20th century, maybe roosevelt in terms of the challenges that he faced and overcame. .. >> eisenhower in the last 150 years, our only bald president. and i was wondering -- [laughter] did you think there's going to be any more? yourself as a partially-bald vice president. >> well, if i may go first? >> please. [laughter] >> i've always believed in the principle that my good friend al simpson lived by. al used to say we all have only so many hormones, and if you want to waste yours growing hair, that's okay by me. [laughter] [applau