Unscrupulous Quotes
Referring to Richard M. Nixon:
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.
and later wife
The assessment was secret but was leaked by columnist Jack Anderson. President Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger placed great faith and trust in the Shah who did indeed pursue his own aims. He doubled the price of oil overnight, and was the first Iranian leader to seek nuclear weapons—see {586394}. The CIA got that one right. {620094} gives a concurring opinion by a member of the Cabinet.
