Keith hates Goldin with a passion, and treats him with the most contempt he can muster...

Every CEO in the industry and most of the senior military know that given the incredible challenges and restraints he faced, Goldin did a remarkable job...

They also know that the next NASA Adminisrator will be as unable to move forward on a manned Mars mission any more than Goldin could... and they know that that is going to make them the target of Tumlinson et al... for any program, when a fair part of your supporters hold unrealistic expectations, it makes it difficult to build a consensus, and thus you can't move the process along -

EP