Goldin had his (rather large) nose so far up bubba's gluteal fold that it would have broken off had clinton stopped quickly.
At the John Glenn launch, for instance, I was there when the little man actually said, "President clinton has been the biggest supporter of the US space program of any president in history." At that point, I turned my headset volume to the max to drown out his obsequious drivel.
Goldin never asked for a waiver for that or for any of the other idiotic things we had to go through at KSC, simply because he placed his own miserable career ahead of the safety of the astronauts.
Did you know that we had to treat rainwater that had touched galvanized steel gratings as "hazardous waste"? The taxpayers paid $2 per gallon to haul millions of gallons of sump water to hazardous waste sites.
Didn't know this. At the time I asked management to ask for waivers. Got the impression that EPA wouldn't allow it.
I do agree w/you regarding the UnGoldin one. You can thank George Abbey for that Goldin goose egg....they are two of a kind. George placed people who were loyal to him (i.e., passed him info, unquestioning obedience) in the highest positions, including Goldin. This was done under Bush 41 but more specifically, it was Dan Quayle who OK'd Goldin, even after hundreds of letters from former TRW employees, were sent to Quayle advising against it. History shows he mouthed "faster, better, cheaper" but everything he touched was slower, worse, and more expensive. He preached an open door, but if you critiqued anything you were canned. He ruled through fear, IMO, same as George Abbey.