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he was kind of a hollow man after that. charles oppenheimer: what we say inside the family is it hurt his feelings. he didn t like it, but he didn t talk about it. he never made one statement about it publicly. he never asked for an apology, and he retreated back into where he came from. bird: he still kept his job at princeton, but he wasn t doing any more physics. these were kind of sad years. murrow: and professor einstein is still here, too, isn t he? oh, yeah. indeed he is. uh, indeed he is. uh. does he ever call you up on the telephone? hmm, sometimes. i think he. he calls me, uh, when he reads in the newspapers something about me that he doesn t like, and he calls me up and-and says, that s all right. that s just right. sherwin: he had lost his fighting spirit.
he would have nothing to do with commenting on any of the issues of the day related to nuclear weapons. man: dr. oppenheimer, could you tell us what your thoughts are about what our atomic policy should be? no, i-i can t do that. i m not. not close enough to the facts, and i m not close enough to the thoughts of those who are worrying about it. rhodes: hans bethe told me once that, oppenheimer was smarter than any of the rest of us. he didn t win a nobel prize. how could this man, who evidently outshone some of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, not have been more successful in his line of work physics than he was? charles oppenheimer: you can t talk about oppenheimer when you re not talking about his science. that was the part of his life.