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

[kreelman]

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 → kreelman]

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.