On a brief holiday in the mountains, the running mates attempted to bond. Eisenhower tried to teach Nixon how to fly cast. “I caught his shirt on the fourth try,” Nixon recalled. “The lesson ended abruptly. I could see he was disappointed.”40 (The next year, Ike would try to instruct Nixon at golf. The lessons went no better. “Look here,” Ike told Nixon, “you’re young, you’re strong and you can do a lot better than that.”
