presidential blunders

Some blunders are small. Some result in catastrophe. Others are are just rude, misguided and annoying. Of the latter, let's raise our glasses to Richard Nixon. As reported in Woodward and Bernstein's excellent The Final Days, while entertaining Congressmen aboard Sequoia, the presidential yacht, Nixon would serve a decent Bordeaux to his guests, while secretly drinking his treasured 1966 Chateau Margaux. This deception was accomplished by Nixon's elaborate scheme to have his private wine wrapped in a napkin to hide the label. So while his guests enjoyed one wine, Nixon savored something better.