Bill Clinton's likely involvement in the 2008 election is bigger, too, than Reagan campaigning for Vice President Bush, a relationship that helped Bush win the election but which had its undertones of resentment as well. In his inaugural address the new president spoke of an administration that would be kinder and gentler, prompting Nancy Reagan to wonder: kinder and gentler than whom? The first President Bush campaigned for his son, sometimes awkwardly calling him "my boy," which had unfortunate echoes from 1952, when, after Richard M. Nixon's Checkers speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower greeted his vice-presidential nominee at an airport with the phrase "you're my boy."