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The radical Left is coming for the nuclear football. Trump must lock the codes now

In August 1974, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger ordered U.S. commanders to confirm any nuclear launch order from Richard Nixon with him or Henry Kissinger. Watergate had isolated a drinking president — sole constitutional authority had become a single point of failure. Consequently, senior officials built an extra-legal brake around the nuclear football without a formal […]

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Washington ExaminerLean R·58m ago
The radical Left is coming for the nuclear football. Trump must lock the codes now
In August 1974, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger ordered U.S. commanders to confirm any nuclear launch order from Richard Nixon with him or Henry Kissinger. Watergate had isolated a drinking president — sole constitutional authority had become a single point of failure. Consequently, senior officials built an extra-legal brake around the nuclear football without a formal […]
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