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Reading the new Rickover book

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Topic: Reading the new Rickover book

Posted By: Rontini599
Subject: Reading the new Rickover book
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2022 at 4:39pm

1. President Truman signed off on the first Nuclear Submarine 5 years to the day of the bomb on Nagasaki

2. President Carter (a nuclear submarine officer) was very good friends with Adm. Rickover

3. Admiral Zumwalt and Rickover were not on good terms nor were SecDev Maknamara

4. Rickover was married twice. His first wife passed of a heart issue. They had a son Robert who lives in Omaha

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Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2022 at 5:05pm

Is this the book of which you speak?

https://smile.amazon.com/Admiral-Hyman-Rickover-Engineer-Jewish-ebook/dp/B09QZ2GSXL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LJNWBDULKPZN&keywords=rickover+book&qid=1651096952&sprefix=Rickover%2Caps%2C71&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow - Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power (Jewish Lives) Kindle Edition

Posted By: Rontini599
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2022 at 11:10am

Sorry: The new books is: Admiral Hyman Rickover by Marc Wortman

Also little know facts:

Jimmy Carter and Wife got a cruise on the Los Angles (688) and actually made a dive. The only woman to dive on a submarine as a relative of a President.

Rickover was the longest ever serving U.S.N. Officer at 63 years. Only Omar Bradley had more "military" time.

President Reagan's new SecNav (John Lehman) was determined to push Rickover out. VP Bush also supported Lehman but Reagan was non-committal at the time. But it was done.

Rickover made 126 Sea Trials.

Rickover interviewed 15,000 naval officers. Only 15% passed his scrutiny.

He passed July 8, 1986 after two strokes and pneumonia.

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My heroes wear dog tags, not shoulder pads

Posted By: Rontini599
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2022 at 5:05pm

Yes but it is available on Amazon in Hardback for $20.76.

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My heroes wear dog tags, not shoulder pads

Posted By: Rontini599
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2022 at 5:06pm

Yes but it is available on Amazon in Hardback

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My heroes wear dog tags, not shoulder pads

Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2022 at 7:24am

It's also available at Amazon Kindle for $12.99.

Finished reading. Not a favorite.