Hugh Shelton Quotes
This is a big deal. A gargantuan deal.
The Cold War had ended, and only the Russians had ICBMs that could reach the United States with nuclear weapons. There are several fail safes in case the President might be incapacitated or the biscuit might be destroyed in an accident. Nonetheless, although most others did not think the biscuit misplacement was a big deal, it was for Shelton who did not realize that if the President ever had to trigger a massive nuclear retaliation it would have already become too late for the world and at worst the President would have been delayed in killing tens of millions of Russians in retaliation for the actions of the officers who ordered the original attack. The quotation illustrates the large difference in values that prevailed in what had become a polarized America.
Henry Hugh Shelton, Army General & Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff, Reference to the fact that President William Clinton had at one point lost his laminated code card (biscuit) to launch a nuclear strike, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, 2010
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Bush and his aids claimed that the President’s important schedule could only accommodate that time. However, he spent hours at a rodeo, played golf, and spent many hours at fundraising dinners.
Henry Hugh Shelton is a former United States Army officer who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001.
