Construction and Commissioning
Thomas Jefferson's keel was laid down on 3 February 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding sponsored by Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; and commissioned on 4 January 1963, Commander Leon H. Rathbun commanding the Blue Crew and Commander Charles Priest, Jr., commanding the Gold Crew. Thomaas Jefferson was initially a fleet ballistic missile submarine and was later converted to an attack submarine.
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“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)