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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 11:55 PM Apr 2017

High past time Schlesinger Doctrine (if true) be implemented - he protected us against crazy Nixon?

There is an anecdote that is often repeated that states that Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger supposedly altered, on some level, the nuclear command authority during Watergate — telling his staff that he had veto power over any nuclear commands by Nixon. It is not something that has been historically substantiated, and, even if true, would technically have been un-Constitutional.

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/11/18/the-president-and-the-bomb/
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