1974 Speech Personal Accountability in Financial Management

This is Rickover's speech on PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT at the

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE Mayflower Hotel Washington, D. C. Wednesday, January 31, 1973.

In this speech, Rickover addresses the need for financial accounting standards for DoD.

The great flaw in our system of Government is not the temptation it offers the

strong man, but the latitude it allows the weak man to do less than is necessary.