Uh huh
/I don’t believe it happened, but I do know that no one raided Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm when he lost the codes, nor Monica Lewinski’s boudoir when Bill lost his.
This, from 2015: Did Clinton Lose the Nuclear Launch Codes?
A top general says that the codes went missing under Clinton's watch — possibly for months on end
What happened?
A new memoir by General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that in 2000, an aide to President Clinton once misplaced a crucial series of codes for accessing the country's nuclear arsenal and managed to hide the mistake for "months." Specifically, Shelton claims the aide lost the "biscuit" — a code name for the notecard used to open the black attache case, known as "the football." The suitcase holds "nuclear codes which the US president would use to authorise the launch of nuclear weapons," and Shelton says that losing them is "a big deal—a gargantuan deal."But:
What would have happened if the codes had fallen into the wrong hands?
The world was probably not in imminent danger. Former Homeland Security advisor Fran Townsend tells CNN that, even if an unathorized person got ahold of the codes, "it is very unlikely that they could execute a launch, because the "biscuit" is "only one part of the launch protocol." Actually launching a nuclear strike involves a "multi-layered system" that includes the aforementioned "football."Is this really the first anyone's heard of this?
Sort of. Seven years ago, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who served as a military advisor to Clinton, wrote an anti-Clinton polemic "Derelection of Duty," which detailed his own experience with lost nuclear codes. Speaking to Accuracy in Media, Patterson recallsthat, at one point, "I asked President Clinton to produce the codes so I could swap the codes out with new codes," and the president "confessed that he'd misplaced" them, thereby really violat[ing] military protocol." But in Patterson's version of events Clinton made his error in 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking. ("Maybe he lost them twice.," says a retired Air Force colonel who carried the "football" during the Clinton administration.)Has this happened to other presidents?
According to ABC News, there's an "old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners" — mysteriously, "no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either."