Trump tosses a wrench into the traditional transfer of power
WASHINGTON — For decades it has been one of the seamless but silent rituals of power transferring from one president to the next: the passing of the football on Inauguration Day. As the incoming president finishes the oath of office at the Capitol, the former president’s military aide lugging a briefcase containing the country’s nuclear war plans — known as the “football” — hands it over to a new uniformed aide, who takes up position near the just-inaugurated commander in chief. Unnoticed to most, the president’s power to wage war in an instant has changed hands. But this y...
Source: latimes.com