The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times, though there are reports that in the 1970s Jimmy Carter inadvertently lost his when a suit was sent to the dry cleaners.
Worse was to happen 20 years later under Bill Clinton’s presidency when, according to General Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, “the codes were actually missing for months”. Shelton wrote in his memoir Without Hesitation: “That’s a big deal – a gargantuan deal.” You think? Indeed, one of Clinton’s former military aides, Lt Col Robert “Buzz” Patterson, recalled that the morning after the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal broke, he asked the president for the card so that he could supply an updated version. The president couldn’t find it.
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Hilarious. Like The Mouse That Roared.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/149467339262
