I saw the film Munich the other night, which featured a section on the Israeli special forces mission Operation Spring of Youth, which included then-commando and future prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak.
It occured to me that this was probably the only time in history that a future head of a nuclear-armed country went on an assassination mission dressed as a woman. (It would, in my opinion, be only slightly less odd if a female future head of a nuclear power went on an assassination dressed as a woman.)
That got me to thinking…what other weird things have leaders, or future leaders, of countries with nuclear weapons done in their lives?
I came up with ones who…
Guest-starred on The Simpsons. (Tony Blair)
Supposedly refused to bathe or brush his teeth. (Mao)
Costarred in a movie with a chimpanzee. (Reagan)
Were born in a women’s restroom. (Churchill)
Came to power in a military coup. (Musharraf)
Personally observed the assembly of nuclear weapons. (Golda Meir)
That’s all the freaky things that came to mind, but I’m sure there are more. Y’know the rules…it can be something odd they did before becoming the leader, but their country had to have The Bomb while they were in charge.
Supposedly, one of the initiation rituals of the Skull & Bones Club (which at least one POTUS has been a member of [IIRC Bush the Elder]) is that you have to lay down naked in a coffin and recite your sexual history to the members of the club who stand, robed, around the coffin holding candles.
[George Bush] I took Bar out to the lake, bent her over the hood of my Buick and did her doggy style. [/GB]
Not confirmed, but more than likely more than one of them have been members of the Bohemian Club, meeting once a year at Bohemian Grove and doing general weird stuff:
