He sounds like a spy that the DS wanted. Good dig!

Rickover is known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy," and his influence on the Navy and its warships was of such scope that he "may well go down in history as one of the Navy's most important officers.

When they want you to be seen as a "hero" that much then it probably means he was a hero to the DS.

It's the same with McCain.

Small detail, but I find his eyes disturbing. Something is off in them.

He testified on the 3 mile isle incident:

Following the Three Mile Island accident on March 28, 1979, Admiral Rickover was asked to testify before Congress in the general context of answering the question as to why naval nuclear propulsion had succeeded in achieving a record of zero reactor-accidents, as opposed to the dramatic one that had just taken place

When he was a child still living in Russian-occupied Poland, Rickover was not allowed to attend public schools because of his Jewish faith.

Rickover developed a decades-long and outspoken interest in the educational standards of the US as being a national security issue, particularly as compared during the Cold War era to Soviet Russia.

He so very much a spy.

He had no real talent because he just meant to be a plant. They gave him "accolades" to make him be seen as brilliant in the absence of actual accomplishment.

In the early 1980s, structural welding flaws in submarines under construction were covered up by falsified inspection records

Remember what Q said about steel inspectors making weakened steel for our warships. It makes me think of that.

Jimmy Carter's admiration for Rickover was shown by the fact that the title of Carter's autobiography was based on a question that Rickover had asked Carter when the latter was in the Navy ("Why Not The Best?")

However, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman felt that Rickover was hindering the well-being of the navy. As Lehman stated in his book, Command of the Seas:

One of my first orders of business as Secretary of the Navy would be to solve ... the Rickover problem.

So Rickover was a traitor.

Secretary Lehman eventually attained enough political clout to enforce his decision to retire Rickover. This was in part assisted by the admiral's nearly insubordinate stance against paying the General Dynamics submarine construction claims, as well as his advanced age and waning political leverage. On July 27, 1981, Lehman was handed the final impetus for ending Rickover's career by way of an operational error on the admiral's part: a "moderate" loss of ship control and depth excursion while performing a submerged "crash back" maneuver during the sea trials of the newly constructed USS La Jolla. Rickover was the actual man-in-charge during this specific performance test, and his actions and inactions were judged to have been the causal factor.

He was able to force Rickover out because Reagan was president.

According to former President Jimmy Carter, several weeks following his retirement, Rickover "was invited to the Oval Office and decided to don his full dress uniform. He told me that he refused to take a seat, listened to the president [Reagan] ask him to be his special nuclear advisor, replied 'Mr. President, that is bullshit,' and then walked out."

What a brat. He thought he couldn't be fired and then he was fired under Reagan. He offered the chance to save face, but threw a fit instead.

On February 28, 1983, a post-retirement party honoring Admiral Rickover was attended by all three living former U.S. Presidents at the time: Nixon, Ford, and Carter, all formerly officers in the U.S. Navy. President Reagan was not in attendance

It says a lot right there.

Rickover died at his home in Arlington, Virginia, on July 8, 1986, at age 86.

Their favorite comm trick. They do this one a lot. If you look up the birdwatcher that James Bond is named after you will find he died in 1989 at 89. It's how they signify a "spy".

Thanks for the dig.