"I've done everything by the book this tour living like a monk, it's so unlucky," he wrote on Instagram.

While his main responsibility as Dean is to ensure the vote goes smoothly and by the book, Lawrence is not above manipulating politics.

It would have been playing things by the book, in a year the Dodgers successfully improvised at every other step.

I was really moved by the book for sure.

Contra claims that the inquiry was “by the book,” he said that there was no book upon which to rely: every step of the investigation was dictated by the Trumpov White House.