LOL. You are the one making the assertion without the slightest substantiation except some vague recollection. I was serving in the USN at the time. After the fact, Kissinger wrote about his concern about Nixon’s mental health given the stress he was under. I cannot recall that there was any formal agreement within the JCS to ignore or subvert the orders of the President/CIC. Any JCS member would be insane to sign on to such an agreement. Moreover, they would be violating the law.
It matters not to me if you have any recollection of the events surrounding these events.
I stated what I recall from, now if the article was true or not I have no way of knowing.
But on a side note, the person carrying the football, if the president for no apparent reason wants to launch an attack, does he have to do it regrardless of the facts surrounding the events?