tom dewey, tom dewey in the negative. now we haven't talked much to about thomas dewey. dewey was the governor of new york, a pretty popular guy. he had been the nominee of the republican party in 1944. he had let on the first three ballots in 1940 before losing to wendell willkie, wilkie quite markowitz has this year he is only 46 years old. that is about the h. obama was. that is only three years older than jack kennedy was. he is a young man. and he has been on the verge of power and national notoriety even before the 1940. he is in asked district attorney. he is not even governor. he was the district attorney of manhattan. he was mr. district attorney, crime buster, the guy who went after the mob, put him in jail and went after the wall street guy, put them in jail. he did it all. he was spectacular as the district attorney but as governor he begins to trim his sails. he is looking at the polls and the candidate the same way. even though he is the purported front-runner and he is the front-runner in terms of delegates at this point, he is not particularly loved in th

don't be tom dewey. >> how about tom dewey versus ronald reagan?hich side will mitt romney choose? that's a wonderful contrast. >> it is. the key point for mitt romney, he does have to be bold. and the thing that concerns me, i think it would be great if he adopt morse of the ryan plan and shows a bold strategic vision and great ideas. the problem is two nights ago in florida, he started criticizing obama for cutting medicare. republicans shouldn't be criticizing democrats for cutting. we should be the ones making the cuts. and we can't simply go to audiences like older voters and tell them they can have their cake, eat it too and have more dessert if we're in the presidency. >> so you want him to be tougher on spending that was the question i had for madden that would be a good signal? >> absolutely. he's got to be tough. if we can get the chair, that we're willing to make the tough, bold decisions and adopt much of the simpson-bowles kind of ideas which the president was unwilling to do on his own commissions. we got to show that we're willing to

tom dewey was governor of the state of new york. the first color television sets were just being sold. jackie robinson was playing second base for the brooklyn dodgers. the first corvette was created. i was just a twinkle in my father's eye. maybe a double twinkle in my father's eyes. and majority leader dean skelos was only 4 years old. but a dapper lad he was, wasn't he? speaker silver was only 8 years old. but even at 8, speaker silver was speaker silver. but what is very heartening is that even then you should know they were both working together hand in hand in a spirit of bipartisanship. let's give them a round of applause. [ applause ] 2011 will go down in the history books as an extraordinary success. and the members of the legislature should be very proud of what they accomplished. unfortunately that wasn't the only story of 2011. 2011 was also a very challenging year for the state in many, many ways. especially outside of albany. we had a terrible situation with tropical storm lee and hurricane irene that caused terrible d

campaign for the presidency since the civil war when roosevelt ran for a fourth term against young tom dewey, governor of new york state. the book will be entirely about the wartime campaign, though it will include the war itself because roosevelt actually went to pearl harbor for the first time after the attack in 1944 to confer with admiral nimitz and general mcarthur about what to do next to try to defeat japan. so roosevelt was at pearl harbor, and he went on to the aleutians from pearl harbor and came back from the aleutians in a destroyer to washington state. and his adversaries because this was an election year spread the story that his little dog, scotty dog, had been abandoned in the aleutians accidentally, and they had to send ships at great expense, millions of dollars, to go back and find the dog. that was all untrue. but roosevelt made it into a good campaign story for his speeches. that'll be in the next book which will be called "the final victory." and i hope you'll see it this year. >> [inaudible] >> and, oh, there'll be another one after that. i was interviewing veterans of