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>> host: david pietrusza. what was it about the presidential elections that made you write books about them? >> guest: it all starts one step at a time, and the 1920 election, i had been playing around with factoids and just about presidents, and presidential elections, and i looked at that one, and i started calculating the math and it was like 1961, you had really -- or 64, you had one president, lyndon johnson, and mostly you would get three. you would get kennedy and nixon in 1960, and '68, you'd get nixon, and you would get reagan. so you might get three. usually get two 1920, y...

and i started calculating amount. 1961 or 1964 -- you had one president, lyndon johnson, you get kennedy, nixon in 1960, in 1968 we did nixon. you would get reagan. you might get three, usually get to. in 1920, you have six. >> six u.s. presidents? >> six in contention in one way or another. as several people have sent. yes, i know that. but if he is not dead, he is the nominee and the president of the united states. he sends his secretary of state to the convention to stampede the convention. about idea. >> he wanted the nomination. and of course, harding, coolidge, hoover, wins two...