JOHN DONVAN: Things that a President can lose: some key votes in Congress, his standing in the polls, a game of golf. Things that a President can never lose, never, ever: the card with the nuclear codes on it. The one that lets him get into that black briefcase that an aide always brings along, inside which are instructions for launching a nuclear attack. Like the briefcase, which is called the football, that card, which is called the biscuit, is supposed to be with the President at all times, giving him numbers to read out loud that identify him to everyone in the system as the commander in chief. That's why you don't lose the biscuit. Think of it like an ATM pin number to get your money, except that when Bill Clinton was President, someone lost the biscuit. This is according to the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Hugh Shelton, who’s just come out with a memoir, and it’s right there on page 392.
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