The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos

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Animats · 3h ago
"Some thoughts on the presidency" [1]

(The site's index dates this to 1952, but it mentions "the events of 1974.")

[1] https://rickover-corpus.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Some+Thou...

emmelaich · 1h ago
Yes, it mentions the energy crisis so dates it to late 70s at least. Also President Reagan, so after 1981. Probably well after.
andrewl · 1h ago
I'm two pages in, and it is excellent.
emmelaich · 1h ago
Quotables in in every paragraph!
uncletaco · 2h ago
The Nixon memo is dated for 1980 from after Nixon was president.
thomassmith65 · 41m ago

  Unless the one person truly responsible can be identified when something goes wrong, then no one has been really responsible
Ah, it's Apple's DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) designation!
andrewl · 1h ago
I've read a few articles about him, but I never heard him speak. I just pulled this up, and I find it fascinating:

https://taproot.com/rickover-60-minutes-interview/

kreelman · 2h ago
Ah, the "Kindly Old Gentleman"...

Though a very difficult man to get on with... He did champion the correct building of the first nuclear subs.

CamperBob2 · 1h ago
Yep, a complex, flawed character.

Unquestionably the right person for that particular job, though. He was Mr. "Failure is Not an Option" years before Gene Kranz.