Nixon would have been a paradox addict

I'm currently reading Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, and the book talked a lot about Nixon's foreign policy goals and "Nixonian Grand Strategy". Nixon was a huge foreign policy wonk and would talk to friends and associates about his desire to "play the game" of international strategy decades before he was president, and it was one of the things that fueled his desire to go into politics and become president. I'm convinced if he was 30 years ago the man would have never touched politics because he would be too busy sinking 7000 hours into EU4 to satiate his desire for grand strategy.