John Lehman
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John Francis Lehman Jr. is an American private equity investor and writer who was secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration in which he promoted the creation of a 600-ship navy.
Lehman in 1982
Hyman G. Rickover
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Hyman George Rickover was an admiral in the United States Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S.
John Lehman
…600-ship navy. Lehman was also instrumental in the forced retirement (from retired-retained status) of the Director of Naval Reactors (DNR), Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Lehman reportedly engaged in a sexual act with a stripper in front of 50 to 100 spectators in a hospitality suite at the Tailhook Convention in Las…
Official portrait, 1955
Admiral Rickover aboard USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. "I did not recruit extraordinary people. I recruited people who had extraordinary potential—and then I trained them"
President Kennedy and Rickover, White House, 11 February 1963 "...in addition to the multilateral POLARIS force, we discussed education and how he and I were brought up as boys"
Headstone of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Arlington National Cemetery