Hidden Danger Quotes
On the BBC during World War II:
See Lyndon Johnson's remark about J. Edgar Hoover for a modern extrapolation.
NASA was trying to avoid embarrassment and obfuscated a great deal of the information around the Challenger disaster. The NASA Administration established a technical scientific staff to do the technical investigation and report to the commissioners. However Feynman, a great scientist and mathematician, did his own analyses and calculations and even data collection and discovered that his results did bot comport with that of NASA or the commission staff which generally accepted the NASA data and analysis. It turned out that Feynman was right and he was able to expose the truth that NASA management had been responsible for the disaster for not paying attention to the data and recommendations to postpone the launch that existed.
It was Mao whose brilliant leadership defeated Chiang and forced him give up China and flee to Taiwan. It was not Mao’s military ability, but his understanding of the Chinese people and how to lead and motivate them that enabled him to be victorious. Chiang, the better general and military tactician, was a strategic failure and his only experience with the average Chinese person was to rule, intimidate and command him.
