tom dewey had met with young richard nixon, the junior senator from california, early in 1952 at his suite in new york city, and offered, why isn't he running yet! and dewey offers him the vice presidential nomination. nixon helped to deliver, or he was going to deliver the california delegation, but it turned out he didn't have to, the fair play amendment threw it to eisenhower. and nixon is perfect for this. when you think of a vice presidential candidate, you want him to fill gaps. young. conservative so the presidential candidate can be a moderate, brings a western state in, energetic, the second leading public face for anti-communism in the country at the time. nixon was an absolutely perfect choice. he doesn't look too excited, does he? [ laughter ] on the other side of the coin, i type in democratic convention, and what do i get? the successful movement to draft eisenhower. what's with wikipedia anyway. this myth also needs to be undone, but it's kind of harder than it is with ike. because ike was a candidate and stevenson never was. there was a draft movement. it was run by wa

tom dewey had met with young richard nixon, the junior senator from california, early in 1952 at his suite in new york city, and offered, why isn't he running yet! and dewey offers him the vice presidential nomination. nixon helped to deliver, or he was going to deliver the california delegation, but it turned out he didn't have to, the fair play amendment threw it to eisenhower. and nixon is perfect for this. when you think of a vice presidential candidate, you want him to fill gaps. young. conservative so the presidential candidate can be a moderate, brings a western state in, energetic, the second leading public face for anti-communism in the country at the time. nixon was an absolutely perfect choice. he doesn't look too excited, does he? [ laughter ] on the other side of the coin, i type in democratic convention, and what do i get? the successful movement to draft eisenhower. what's with wikipedia anyway. this myth also needs to be undone, but it's kind of harder than it is with ike. because ike was a candidate and stevenson never was. there was a draft movement. it was run by wa

tom dewey had met with young richard nixon early in 1952 in a suite in new york city, and offered -- eisenhower isn't even running yet, and dewey offered him the vice presidential nomination. nixon was going to deliver the california nomination but he didn't have to. the fair play amendment through it to eisenhower -- threw it to eisenhower. when you think of a candidate, you want them to fill gaps. young, conservative so that presidential candidate can be a moderate. energetic. the second-leading public face for anti-communism in the country at the time. nixon was a perfect choice. he doesn't look too excited, does he? on the other side of the coin, i type in democratic convention and i get the successful movement to draft eisenhower. what is with wikipedia? -- the successful movement to draft stevenson. what is with wikipedia? this is harder, because there was a draft movement. it was run by walter johnson, but it did not draft stevenson. this is what i thought happened. harry truman stepped out and suddenly said, you're my boy. that is not what happened. what happened, the story is

tom, how could you possibly think that was me? >> so, you don't love me? [ laughter ] >> seth: you know what? derrick! what's going on, man? we used to be pals. remember when i took you to dewey beach boat show and you got you that captain's hat? what happened to that kid i knew? >> well, to be honest, you care so much about making people laugh, i thought maybe if i could make people laugh too, you might respect me. i guess that was pretty dumb. >> seth: no, it's not dumb. but also, how do i know that's not another lie? >> remember when i told you in my portfolio, my favorite picture was called "self portrait with my hero, uncle seth"? that was the truth. can i show you the real picture? >> seth: i wish i could believe you derrick, but honestly, i think you're probably just going to go in the bag and pull out your middle finger like you [ laughter ] [ laughter ] >> uncle seth, look at me. i promise i won't. all right. >> seth: oh. wow. it really is us. it's us in the dewey beach boat show. captain's hat i got you. >> read what it says on the hat. >> seth: look at samantha? [ laughter ] all right. you know what? you're a bad kid. you're a bad kid too. we'll be right back with