[Dick] Cheney started work on a Saturday in March 1989 and was expected at the White House for a meeting with the elder Bush. He entered his private elevator at the Pentagon to travel down to the garage, but accidentally got off on a floor below the garage.
There were no buttons to call the elevator back to that floor, he said, so he had to wander around the basement looking for a way out. When he finally did get out he decided to just act as if he meant to take that long.
I figured the best thing was to act like I knew what I was doing, he said. So I tightened my tie, walked out and got into the limousine. No one ever had the nerve ask me where I had been. It was a very valuable lesson to learn - act like you know what youre doing.
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Fake it till you break it.