Wasn't he named after someone involved in the Watergate scandal? Ron Zeegler was a great actor too. I mean he was Nixon's press secretary and he almost never threw up in public. That has to count for something.
It's very rare and quite entertaining. False bravado pervades our entertainment. Presented with situations that are thrown at heros many people would crap a brick and freak out, yet it is not very often portrayed, and well? Almost never. Overcoming fear is courage...