i think this is when the two of you are shopping -- >> at thrift town. >> stephen: thrift town. >> thriftephen: okay, in order to try to find a dress for-- >> the perfect holiday dress for lady bird. >> stephen: because she's going to a thanksgiving dinner with her boyfriend. her new boyfriend. >> i just think it's such a shame that you're spending your last thanksgiving with a family you never met instead of us, but i guess you want it that way. are you tired? >> no. >> hey, marion. >> hey, how's the baby! >> she's growing. >> i want to see a picture at checkout. >> okay. >> okay. so if you're tired we can sit down. >> i'm not tired. >> oh, okay, i just couldn't tell because you were dragging your feet. well, i just couldn't tell. >> why didn't you just say, "pick up your feet." >> i didn't-- you're being passive aggressive. >> no. >> you're so infuriating. >> stop yelling. >> i'm not yelling. >> oh, perfect! >> do you love it? ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> on a dime. >> stephen: so perfect. >> that's the way those mothers and daughters work, yeah they can change up so quickly. >> stephen

ohio, small town ohio, imbued with what you might call the ohio culture of the time which was a reflection of what people of those times, in those times considered christian values of thrifttimism, mod deathsty -- modesty, hard toil. his father ran and own toed blast furnaces around ohio, worked very, very hard. his mother had a strong sense of civic and religious duty. she was a very civic-minded person, she worked very hard for her church and her communities wherever they happened to be. they were in poland for most of the growing-up years of william. the mother was also imbued with those so-called christian values, and one of my favorite stories about her was she was taking a train to columbus later in her life to visit her son, the governor of ohio. the lady next to her struck up a conversation, are you going to columbus? yes, i am, she said. oh, do you have family there? i have a son there. that's all she said. she didn't feel any need to explain that her son was governor of the state. [laughter] so at 17 young william mckinley goes off to college in pennsylvania. the first year he developed some kind of an illness, an ailment, and it never was quite explained or und