i was shocked that your dad tried to set you up on a date with trisha nixon.ave you revealed that before? >> no. i was shocked he asked me. i was at moody air force base. he wanted me to have a date with trisha nixon. i was reluctant to do it at first. and a lot of my pilot buddies needling me. you making it up, i'm going, just to prove them wrong. and i go. i went upstairs. trisha was polite and lovely. i was a swash buck her, spilled wine, fired up a lucky strike. didn't work out well. >> i look at your dad, the one thing that struck me as you read the book in total, all of the things he did. ran for congress, lost congress, became a congressman, then urged to run for senate and becomes u.n. ambassador at the time, richard nixon appointed him. head of the rnc. he was the head of the rnc when richard nixon had to resign. he wrote him a really fascinating latfascinate ing letter the day before, he resigned on august 8th for the good of the country and the presidency. he was there for the watergate, almost every big moment in the last two generations of history

i was shocked to learn that your dad tried to set you up on a date with trisha nixon. >> yes, i was a little shocked. i know. i was shocked he called me and asked me. so i'm at moody air force base in georgia. and said you're not going to believe this, dad said he wants me to go have a date with trisha nixon. i was a little reluctant to do it at first. a lot of my pilot buddies heard about it and started needling me. you're making it up. i said i'm going. just to prove them wrong. and i go. and i went upstairs, trisha was very polite and very lovely. i was a little bit of a swash buck buckler. i spilled the red wine on the oak table, fired up a lucky strike. anyway, didn't work out well. >> looking at your dad, the one thing that struck me as you read the book in total is all of the things he did. >> yeah. >> he ran for congress, lost congress, became a congressman, then was urged to run for senate. u.n. ambassador at the time richard nixon appointed him. head of the rnc when richard nixon had to resign. he wrote him a really fascinating letter the day before he resigned on august 7th