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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Remembering Groves And Oppenheimer 20240622

Set this up . Let them decide or let you decide. Well let the audience decide. Listen closely now. The decision is which man was the indispensable man of the Manhattan Project . Take it away. I guess ill start. Thats part of the title of my book actually. Ill just speak about two aspects of general groves. As you may or may not know, he grew up in the army. His father was an army chaplain. He was determined to go to west point and he graduated fourth in his class. At the time the automatic choice of anyone who was at the head of their classes at west point joined the corps of engineers. He graduated on november 1st 1918. War was over but 11 days later november 11th 1918, and hes now an engineer in a Peacetime Army and very slow to move through the ranks. And in the run up to world war ii after he served in various places around the
United States , Los Alamos , New York , Capitol Hill , District Of Columbia , West Point , Bob Carter , Harry Truman , Robert Oppenheimer , Frank Oppenheimer , Lawrence Compton , Robert Norris , Brian Summerville , Robert Wilson , Albert Einstein , Bernie Nichols , Marti Sherwin , Manhattan Project , May May , Father Army , Peacetime Army , World War , Getting Good , Construction Division , Division Army , Army Corps ,

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Remembering Groves And Oppenheimer 20240622

Set this up . Let them decide or let you decide. Well let the audience decide. Listen closely now. The decision is which man was the indispensable man of the Manhattan Project . Take it away. I guess ill start. Thats part of the title of my book actually. Ill just speak about two aspects of general groves. As you may or may not know, he grew up in the army. His father was an army chaplain. He was determined to go to west point and he graduated fourth in his class. At the time the automatic choice of anyone who was at the head of their classes at west point joined the corps of engineers. He graduated on november 1st 1918. War was over but 11 days later november 11th 1918, and hes now an engineer in a Peacetime Army and very slow to move through the ranks. And in the run up to world war ii after he served in various places around the
United States , Los Alamos , New York , Capitol Hill , District Of Columbia , West Point , Bob Carter , Harry Truman , Robert Oppenheimer , Frank Oppenheimer , Lawrence Compton , Robert Norris , Brian Summerville , Robert Wilson , Albert Einstein , Bernie Nichols , Marti Sherwin , Manhattan Project , May May , Father Army , Peacetime Army , World War , Getting Good , Construction Division , Division Army , Army Corps ,