Famous Fumbles - During the April 1999 NATO summit in Washington, President Clinton left his aide and the football behind when he unexpectedly left a session 45 minutes early. The aide hurried the 4 1/2 blocks back to the White House without incident...After Reagan was shot by John Hinckley in 1981, the codes wound up in a plastic personal-effects bag at the hospital...Jimmy Carter dodged a calamity when he once left his authenticator ID in the pocket of a suit. It went to the dry cleaner...After a hot tennis match in Los Angeles one day, President Bush (41) took off with his racket but not the football. It took the Navy pigskin carrier 15 minutes of hightailing it to hook up with him on Sunset Boulevard...When Gerald Ford took over, he flew off to Paris for a summit and left his ballcarrier aboard Air Force One...During the final days of Watergate, when Nixon was drinking hard and wandering the White House at night talking to the pictures on the walls, there were stories that the chief of staff and the secretary of defense had taken away his football. Untrue, but still interesting.
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