show more of you. ♪ >> bret: daniel krauthammer was born in 1985. by the time he was in high school, the cold war was over, the nation was saved, and the dot-com economy was booming. charles knew it could not last. but how do you get a bunch of teenagers to listen? >> here's how it works, there is a spring campaign in a fall campaign. >> bret: did he know all of your friends? >> yes, everybody went to our house. he was one of the favorites if not the favorite dad on the block. >> this game is so much like the real thing it is scary. >> i gave a lecture at my son's high school in the late '80s. i was trying to make them understand that what you are living through is totally unusual. i was impressing upon them what a wondrous age this was, which if you are 17, i think trouble getting a date is not exactly a message that you are going to accept. >> bret: do you remember that? >> i do, vaguely, he did feelhe that '90s were a an anomaly to history and a grand battle of ideas o and ideologies, and this that we have to fight for and protect. and the '90s f