Sometime back in (I think) '98, Clinton visited the carrier my Navy son was stationed on ... the advance team took more than 24 hours of extraordinary pains during the time leading up to the presidential visit to be sure that every small detail of the pending "photo-op" would turn out precisely the way they wanted it to ... right down to fraction-of-an-inch positioning of the rotors of the helicopter which the President was choreographed to "spontaneously pause" next to (at a carefully marked spot, of course) so he could be photographed "in action" ...
Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but somehow I'm not too greatly surprised that ANY president (or serious candidate for the job) takes great pains to arrange all the peripheral details to be exactly as they want them to be, just as often as they can ...
Looking good for the media all began more than 40 years ago, when televising of the Kennedy-Nixon debates was observed to make Nixon photograph poorly on TV, particularly in contrast to the highly photogenic JFK ...