Look how long it took to publish the in-flight intercom tape dumps. They certainly weren't classified for any reason other than to hide the fact that these guys made mistakes, swore, joked, got emotional, and otherwise acted like perfectly normal human beings doing a very unusual job. Nothing they said in private could take away the fact that they did their jobs quite well.
Remember how much flak Cernan caught when he yelled "SONOFABITCH!" just because the LM computer suddenly decided it belonged on a carnival ride? The Right Reverend Larry "Dickhead" Poland raised such a stink that Cernan, under orders, made a public apology at a press conference.
Of course, Cernan later referred to the uproar as "goddamn hogwash".
Cernan's statement was technically accurate. The LM was Snoopy, Snoopy was a dog, dogs are by definitions sons of bitches.
The funny thing, I thought, was that the Commander, Tom Stafford, was also cursing a blue streak. Stafford, whose nickname was "Mumbles", was known to get just a bit less than articulate when excited (some of the other astronauts said that he was so smart he couldn't talk as fast as he was thinking) and his profanity didn't come across the comm link.
According to Cernan, what saved their collective butts was Stafford taking manual control of the LM and getting them into the correct attitude in time to make the ascent burn. As Gene said, "Old Mumbles sure do know how to fly."