theodore roosevelt and calvin coolidge. i can't help but observe that of those four vice presidents, all four went on to become president. i know you are not going to announce your candidacy this evening, but do you think that you would be a good president? >> that would be for others to say. let me just say, when we gather back in in the end of this coming christmas, we will approach that decision the same way that we have approached every decision over the last 20 years in public life. last 20 years in public. my daughter, charlotte, still wrote the best book about our family. it is entitled where you go. subtitled, life lessons from my father. and she captures the story of how we made our decision to run for congress that third time. so i mentioned that i lost those first two races, and i write about the lessons learned. so help me god, when the time came