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

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• Animats 9 hours 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...

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  • emmelaich 7 hours 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 7 hours ago
    I'm two pages in, and it is excellent.
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    • ndileas 16 minutes ago
      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.
    • emmelaich 7 hours ago
      Quotables in in every paragraph!
  • uncletaco 8 hours ago
    The Nixon memo is dated for 1980 from after Nixon was president.
• thomassmith65 7 hours 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!
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  • stmw 5 hours ago
    It is always interesting how such principles are much older than our current examples!
• andrewl 7 hours 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/
• acidburnNSA 3 hours ago
  Truly amazing resource. Thanks to the folks funding this, and doing the scans.
• kreelman 8 hours 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.

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  • CamperBob2 8 hours 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.