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" People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel, " as Maya Angelou has it. Rickover, for all his delivery talents, apparently made a good proportion of people feel like shit.
i don't think that's really it. he was hated because of his interactions with his superiors, not generally because of how he treated people below him.
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> He doesn't like the architecture you chose? You're gone. He finds issues in the code of one of your subordinates? That subordinate is gone and you are too. I doubt it would have been that severe unless it was a recurring thing. But it does bring to mind a story told by the USS Enterprise's then-chief engineer, about an episode before my own time aboard. Back in the day, there was a "billet" (org-chart position) kno…
Wait how are there two answers to this? Is shaft length not a well specified term?
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He was in over his head as President, but he was still a good man, which is more than many other ex-Presidents from both parties could say.
I think that's the myth promoted by his opponents, to win the 1980 election and of course to demonize all Democrats and other enemies. But forget all that and examine it on the merits: As a start, he inherited the post-Vietname military, a shambles already, OPEC embargos, Iran, an America that had lost great credibility in Vietnam. He did Camp David, the most successful and effective security action in the Mideast to…
The USA switched to a volunteer force 3 years before Carter was elected. What he did do, was re-establish draft registration. Not something one should brag about.