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Even the most senior, renowned and professionally-accomplished nuclear-trained officers that Rickover had personally selected, such as Edward L. Beach, Jr., had mixed feelings about " the kindly old gentleman ," or simply " KOG ", as Rickover became euphemistically known in inner circles.

Beach, in his later years, once referred to him as a " tyrant " with " no account of his gradually failing powers " ( p. 179, United States Submarines, 2002 ).