10-22-2010, 09:08
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Bush's Beans are at Fault: Clinton Lost Launch Codes for Mos.
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Gen.: Clinton Lost Launch Codes for Mos.
October 22, 2010
The Independent
Many considered Bill Clinton an American president of charisma and vision. But he did not always have the patience for the peskier details of his job -- like never, ever forgetting to have those nuclear launch codes in his top pocket, or at least somewhere on his person.
According to a former chairman of the joint chiefs, Clinton managed to mislay not for hours, but for months, the special plastic card with the codes that in military and White House parlance is called "the biscuit." Without it, the president is theoretically unable to order a nuclear launch.
The extraordinary revelation comes towards the end of a new memoir from retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served under President Clinton as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of An American Warrior."
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Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a well- known critic of the former president, told a strikingly similar tale of absent-mindedness in his own book about his years of service. Patterson, who at times carried the launch briefcase, known as "the football," for the president, claimed that the day after the story about Clinton and his liaison with former intern Monica Lewinsky first broke, he asked him for "the biscuit" only to discover that the commander-in-chief couldn't find it.
"He thought he just placed them upstairs," Patterson wrote. "We called upstairs, we started a search around the White House for the codes, and he finally confessed that he in fact misplaced them. He couldn't recall when he had last seen them."
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http://www.military.com/news/article...tml?ESRC=eb.nl
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10-22-2010, 09:35
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He couldn't find the "biscuit" because he was concerned about someone else finding the "butter." 
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10-22-2010, 09:38
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Or focusing on the wrong "biscuit" perhaps.
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10-22-2010, 10:57
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It wasn't long ago that an US Army NCO carried the 'football' to the White House. Now it's a US Air Force, 1LT/CPT, more suited for the task. Nonetheless, once received, the 'King' does his own thing.
"Just put it down over there Sergerant, I'll get to it later".
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10-22-2010, 11:39
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Originally Posted by 1stindoor
He couldn't find the "biscuit" because he was concerned about someone else finding the "butter." |
That Arkansas boy probably put some sausage gravy on that 'biscuit' and ate it after Hillary cut back on his daily 'Big Mac' intake.
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10-22-2010, 11:56
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He was tired of that same ol' stale biscuit and was busy cultivating his new found tastes for a bialy! 
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10-24-2010, 09:20
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General Shelton just "outed" it on This Week on ABC!!!
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