Can the President just QUIT?

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

A political science professor once told me that Kissinger told the military upper echelon that Nixon could not be trusted with the Nuclear Football and to not accept his orders in that regard.

Alexander Haig

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

Any historians know why Nixon gave his letter of resignation to Henry Kissinger instead of VP Ford? Was it because there was no way Kissinger could become president? A political science professor once told me that Kissinger told the military upper echelon that Nixon could not be trusted with the Nuclear Football and to not accept his orders in that regard.

The day the Lewinsky scandal broke, Clinton was to trade in his "biscuit" with the nuclear launch codes. But they were missing. "We never did get them back," says former Clinton military aide Lt. Col. Robert Patterson. Then there's bin Laden: Clinton ducked calls from the Situation Room to OK a Tomahawk attack in 1998, then waffled until it was too late.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politic...4whisplead.htm

ABC noted that a similar claim was made about former President Jimmy Carter, who was said to have left the card with the launch codes in a suit sent to the dry cleaner.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/president-b...ry?id=11930878

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

... the launch codes in a suit sent to the dry cleaner.

... good thing it wasn't money.