It is at core an absolute love of people, of freedom from ego, a willingness to give of himself without the least inhibition, a self-effacement, and a kind of a burning intensity of caring about other people that makes him like some kind of lioness caring about her cubs when the issue of Sailors comes up. It is all shaped by Lee's passion - passion about Sailors and their well being. We need to change it. People are being harassed by bill collectors. We need to change that.
Life needs to be different for our Sailors.
If we're looking at aviation spare parts, as Lee Gunn did, it's not in terms of the dry mechanics of how we sort out our distribution system, or how much money ought to be in a particular line item. It's in the flesh and blood of individual Sailors who every day are trying to maintain our aircraft, and who, as a result of cannibalization and other kinds of things, are spending extra hours that they shouldn't be spending. Lee would stand up and scream on behalf of those people. That's the passion of his commitment. Lee refashioned the Inspector General's office so that instead of an accounting kind of emphasis, it took on more and more of an emphasis of help.