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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7103955/Trumps-nuclear-football-carried-10-Downing-Street.html

Trump’s ‘nuclear football’ is carried out of 10 Downing Street: Soldier follows the President with the briefcase that could seal the fate of the world with one command

FTA:
...Under Gerald Ford in 1975, the whole football was forgotten about during a summit in France after he left it on the plane.
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Former soldier Carter stripped out the case, removed unnecessary documents and even made the nuclear procedure into basic, easy to follow cartoons.

Yet despite his military discipline, the then president did once leave the codes in a suit, which ended up in a dry cleaners.

The following president, Ronald Reagan, had a better excuse for loosing the device.

He was shot in 1981 and his clothes were taken from him as well as all other possessions while he was in hospital.

The world’s most powerful card was found in a hospital plastic bag.

Bill Clinton made up for his predecessor George H W Bush not losing the card, by misplacing it twice.
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1,131 posted on 06/04/2019 11:09:39 AM PDT by mairdie (The First Couple - Melania and Donald Trump - Joseph Blanchard - https://youtu.be/ohgg0I_-p0g)
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To: mairdie

1. Carter is not a ‘former soldier.’
2. This is just horrific ...
The following president, Ronald Reagan, had a better excuse for loosing the device.

Loosing? Really, DM?


1,134 posted on 06/04/2019 11:16:37 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: mairdie
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7103979/Larry-Downing-Street-cat-takes-shelter-Donald-Trumps-armoured-limousine.html

In the shadow of the Beast: Larry the Downing Street cat takes shelter under Donald Trump's £1.2m armoured limousine


1,141 posted on 06/04/2019 11:22:54 AM PDT by mairdie (The First Couple - Melania and Donald Trump - Joseph Blanchard - https://youtu.be/ohgg0I_-p0g)
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To: mairdie

Of course Carter was a Navy guy and not a soldier. I know because he’s USNAs only president so far.


1,155 posted on 06/04/2019 11:49:23 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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