Says who?
Says bodyman Reggie Love.
“Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [President Obama] was like, ‘I’m not going to be down there, I can’t watch this entire thing,’ We must have played 15 games of spades,” said Love at a public event.
Video at the link.
Turns out the “Gutsy Call” was a tricky finesse of taking a trick with a low spade instead of a high one.