Nixon would lie about anything: spreading word that he took no naps though he took them almost daily, marked as “staff time” on his public schedule; claiming to the Council on Urban Affairs that his management philosophy was to stick to the big picture—“John Quincy Adams and Grover Cleveland read every bill and almost killed themselves”—even though precious hours of the Leader of the Free World’s time were spent worrying over details such as the spray of the presidential shower, or the precise lighting angles in his TV appearances.
