66 points | by stmw 12 hours ago
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"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...
Yes, it mentions the energy crisis so dates it to late 70s at least. Also President Reagan, so after 1981. Probably well after.
I'm two pages in, and it is excellent.
There's a lot of timeless, good analysis. But there's also somewhat dated concerns (like the energy crisis stuff) where it's clear that he's responding to the issue du jour.
Quotables in in every paragraph!
The Nixon memo is dated for 1980 from after Nixon was president.
Unless the one person truly responsible can be identified when something goes wrong, then no one has been really responsible
It is always interesting how such principles are much older than our current examples!
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/
Truly amazing resource. Thanks to the folks funding this, and doing the scans.
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.
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.
"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...
Yes, it mentions the energy crisis so dates it to late 70s at least. Also President Reagan, so after 1981. Probably well after.
I'm two pages in, and it is excellent.
There's a lot of timeless, good analysis. But there's also somewhat dated concerns (like the energy crisis stuff) where it's clear that he's responding to the issue du jour.
Quotables in in every paragraph!
The Nixon memo is dated for 1980 from after Nixon was president.
It is always interesting how such principles are much older than our current examples!
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/
Truly amazing resource. Thanks to the folks funding this, and doing the scans.
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.
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.