Word: hyman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Admiral Hyman Rickover may be in retirement, but his torpedo-like salvos against shipbuilders who rip off American taxpayers are still exploding. About six months before he finally left the Navy in January 1982 after 59 years of cantankerous service, Rickover, now 83, blasted four contractors in particular for making what he called "excessive profits" on their work for the Navy. A House committee asked the General Accounting Office, which is the investigative arm of Congress, to find out whether Rickover was right...
...Hyman G. Rickover, a vigorous critic of nuclear arms and the military-industrial complex, avoided both those subjects last night in a speech on "Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life" at the Institute of Politics...
Gently but firmly forced into retirement last year by President Reagan after a naval career of a mere 63 years, Admiral Hyman Rickover, 83, is scarcely gone or forgotten. Last week in Washington, Richard Nixon, 70, Gerald Ford, 69, and Jimmy Carter, 58 (another man forced into retirement by Reagan), gathered to salute Rickover, under whom they had all technically served as lower-ranking naval officers. Nixon rumbled through Happy Birthday on the piano (strange, considering it was no one's birthday), Carter saluted the admiral's influence on him as "second only to my father," and Ford...
...Reform and the Art of War. At the core of the naval building plan are two new $3.5 billion nuclear aircraft carriers, the heart's desire of every admiral, and the supporting ships they require. Advances in missile warfare make these surface ships far more vulnerable. Retired Admiral Hyman Rickover has estimated that carriers would survive only two days in an all-out nuclear war; the Navy reportedly refused to station one off the coast of Iran during the hostage crisis for fear it would be sunk. Yet the Navy justifies its desire for 15 carrier groups as necessary...
Just last January, the Department announced it had dropped an investigation of fraud at the General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat subsidiary. The move prompted criticism later the same month from retiring Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who told a Congressional panel that investigated false and inflated claims by contractors were nothing unusual: "Today, defense contractors can do anything they want with nothing to hinder them...