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Introduction
Title Page

Foreword
Preface

Acknowledgments
A Brief Biography
William T. Golden's Chronicle of an Era: an Appreciation

Decision Memorandum
F.J. Lawton, Decision Memorandum for the President, October 19, 1950

Conversations: 1950
Herman Spoehr and Walter Rudolph, October 20
Vannevar Bush, October 24
Lee DuBridge, James Killian, and Irvin Stewart, October 25
Kenneth Pitzer, November 1
I. I. Rabi, November 16
Detlev W. Bronk, November 22
Alan T. Waterman, November 29
Vannevar Bush, December 5
Lee DuBridge, December 13
James B. Conant, December 14
Leslie Groves, December 17
James Killian, December 19
Theodore von Karman, December 21
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Bacher, and Charles Lauritsen, December 21

Conversations: 1951
James B. Conant, Charles Stauffacher, Elmer Staats, and William D. Carey, January 5
I. I. Rabi, January 5
Lee DuBridge, January 8
Lucius Clay, January 19

Detlev W. Bronk, February 20

Oliver E. Buckley, February 22

J. Robert Oppenheimer, February 26
Vannevar Bush, March 1
J. Robert Oppenheimer, March 14
Oliver Buckley, March 22
James Killian, March 24
Oliver E. Buckley, April 8
Oliver E. Buckley and Charles Stauffacher, April 10 and 11

Memoranda
Letter to the President, December 18, 1950
Memorandum for the President- Mobilization of Science for War: A Scientific Adviser to the President, December 18, 1950
Memoranda on Program for the National Science Foundation, February 15, 1951
Letter from the President to Oliver E. Buckley, April 19, 1951

Appendices
Dramatis Personae
Notes on Selection of Memoranda
Repositories
Glossary of Abbreviations
Chronologies: May 1950 to April 1951

Persons Consulted by William T. Golden with Dates of Conversations



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