Thanks, good story. I remember the basics from then. My schoolmate, Washington correspondent Tom DeFrank, wrote a book about Ford entitled Write It When I’m Gone, about off the record stories Ford told him. I’ll have to check it for any mention of this. I had a couple of minor contacts with President Ford, very likeable guy, and I felt fine about him having the nuclear football.
You, my friend, I think, know more stuff than you let on...
Talk about living in interesting times, we had a President and a VP where neither was elected.