I don’t know about you, but of all of the members of the Quorum of the Twelve, Richard G. Scott has always struck me as the sweetest and most patient. I have no personal experiences or special information to back this up. It is just my impression. I wonder if this is in part the lingering influence of Admiral Hyman Rickover.<\/p>\n
Rickover is the man who invented nuclear powered submarines. By all acounts he was an engineering genius and a bureaucratic empire builder of the first order. He insisted that he have personal control over the training of all officers for nuclear powered submarines, and for several decades he presided over a personal navy within the navy. Ultimately, no one got to do anything with nuclear powered submarines without Rickover’s consent.<\/p>\n
Rickover also seems to have been a first class SOB who delighted in torturing inferiors. For example, he personally interviewed potential captains of nuclear submarines and would go out of his way to shake officers up. He left them to wait for hours in broom closets. He made them sit on chairs with one leg shorter than the other. He told one interviewee, “try to piss me off.” He had other antics. He would deliberately visit submarine bases in civilian clothes and then refuse to show any identification. When the MPs or officers would then deny him access to submarines, he would chew them out. He once had a subordinate take a red-eye flight from Pearl Harbor to New York City for the sole purpose of giving him a personal dressing down. Part of this seems to have been a deliberate attempt to guage people by seeing how they reacted to tense and unexpected situations. However, a lot of it seems to have been simple sadism.<\/p>\n
For twelve years from 1953 to 1965, Richard G. Scott was on Rickover’s personal staff. One can imagine what over a decade of work under a brilliant, demanding, and sadistic boss would do for someone. Hence, when Elder Scott delivers one of his ultra-sweet and patient talks on personal purity or repentence, I can’t help but wonder to what extent his persona is a reaction against Rickover’s antics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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