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SocialDemocrat61

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6. If I remember correctly Bush wasn't in DC

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:12 PM

Aug 31

And wouldn’t get there for a couple of hours. Tip O’Neill was next in line and should have been called to the White House until Bush arrived. But that may have been rejected because he was a democrat and they didn’t trust him. Haig made the statement that he was in control, not in charge, to signal to the Soviets that someone’s finger was still on the button.

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