David, stand up.

Thank you, Tom.

Well, as Tom said, I had the privilege of being President Bush's personal aide in that AD campaign.

It started out as a very crowded, strong field, but quickly, as Tom alluded to, became a two-man race, and President Bush did quite well, but ended up dropping out on Memorial Day when President Reagan got the required number of delegates The convention was pretty early that year in Detroit, in mid-July, and we thought President Bush had a pretty good chance of being vice president because he'd won some big states, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan.

He had foreign policy experience, which was a good compliment to President Reagan, who had the domestic policy experience being a two-term governor.

But President Reagan just had not made a decision.

And it was actually, he went, told Wednesday night at the convention, the night before the last night of the convention, at 10 o'clock he ended up making a decision and calling Vice President, then candidate Bush to be his VP nominee.

President Bush kept dropping