President Carter micromanaged to the point of handling the schedule for the White House tennis courts, IIRC. If Junior tries that he’ll have a stroke in six months. Remember, Mr. Carter was a nuclear submariner under Admiral Hyman Rickover, reputed to be the hardest taskmaster in U.S. military history, with the possible exceptions of Generals McArthur, Von Stueben, Patton and Pershing and Admiral Halsey.
Carter was no nuclear submariner. He wasn’t even a nuclear engineer. I probably knew just as much as he did about nuclear power when I got out of Nuclear Power School and my parents were married.
He got out of the navy in 1953. He was a flunkie for Rickover at Naval Reactors during the very beginning of naval nuclear power and then quit to become a peanut farmer.
The USS Nautilus was commissioned in 1955.
I get tired of the people that say he was some big yay-hoo in naval nuclear power. He was probably Rickover’s fluff boy.
He was a junior officer and never had a command, especially command of a US man of war.
McArthur was an idiot. he could not handle bad news and several times caused an unnecessary disaster because he believed his plans were better that an intelligent analysis would have stated.
The Phillipines debacle in 1942 where he chose to fight on the beaches against superior Japanese forces instead of executing War Plan Orange and retreating into Bataan/Corregidor with ALL his supplies. Instead his forces got chopped up and ended up in Bataan with virtually none of their supplies.
He refused to believe that the Chinese were massing to attack in Korea, and instead concentrated on mopping up the remnants of the NK army. If he had acted in time, he could have executed a slaughter on the Red Army and lil Kim would be languishing in a Peking or Moacow apartment today instead of misruling his nation.