Uncovering the Truth Quotes
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.
In 1936 FDR wanted the FBI to investigate various communist and fascist groups in the U. S. FBI director Hoover informed the President that such an investigation could only take place legally if requested by the Secretary of State who was summoned to the meeting with FDR and J. Edgar Hoover and asked his reaction:
