in that case president carter and jody powell did the right thing.'m sure none of them felt good about it. what is very interesting about lying is that if you think about it we engage in deception all the time in our daily lives. what we call it is spinning. when you ask president obama how the american economy is today, he spends. he tells you the positive news and downplays the negative news. when a boy meets a girl the boy wants today that girl. he goes to great lengths to portray himself and the most positive light. he is spinning. deception as part of daily life. but lying is a special form of deception. most people in our society, the vast majority of people in our society would recoil at being called a liar. there's something really terrible. as a result of that i don't think that leaders who lied to their people or leaders to launch other leaders feel good about it. there may be a good exceptions. but someone like dwight eisenhower, even john f. kennedy, very, very reluctant to line for more reasons. it is a form of behavior that is actually