Gen.: Clinton Lost Launch Codes for Months

[Jackpine Radical]

http://www.military.com/news/article/gen-clinton-lost-launch-codes-for-mos.html?ESRC=dod.nl

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.


I think I would have actually felt safer if I knew this at the time.