said you're not going to believe this, dad wants me to go have a date with trisha nixon. i was reluctant to do that first. a lot of my pilot buddies started needling me. you're making it up. so i said i'm going just to prove them wrong. and i go and, you know, i went upstairs. trisha was very polite and lovely. i was a little bit of a swashbuck ler. i spilled the red wine -- fired up a lucky strike. didn't work that well. >> i look at your dad, the one thing that struck me as you read the book in total is all of the things that he did. >> yeah. >> you know, he ran for congress, lost congress. became a congressman. then was urged to run for senate, becomes 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, he resigned on august 8th. >> correct. >> saying for the good of the country and the presidency -- >> yeah. >> he was there for watergate. he was there for almost every big moment in the last two generations of history. >> yeah, he w