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...Quick & the Dead. The high point of Baruch's later life was his role as U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. In 1946, at the U.N.'s temporary home at Hunter College in The Bronx, he unveiled what came to be called "the Baruch Plan...
...making money and caring for a wife and three children were not enough to exhaust Baruch's energies. He sought a wider stage and found it in Washington. In 1915, having caught the attention of Woodrow Wilson's Administration with a well-thought-out plan for mobilizing U.S. defenses, Baruch set foot in the White House for the first time. Through the next half-century, he returned often...
...Facts." After the U.S. entered World War I, Baruch became chairman of the War Industries Board, did so masterful a job that Wilson (who called him "Dr. Facts") awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal. As Wilson's economic adviser at the Versailles peace talks, Baruch warned against imposing overly heavy reparations on Germany. Nobody listened...
Nominally a Democrat, Baruch was also a conservative economist, kept warning that inflation is "the single greatest peril to our economic health." That philosophy did not endear him to the New Deal, but during World War II, F.D.R. nonetheless named him special adviser to the Office of War Mobilization. In the early war years, Baruch occasionally met with Harvard President James Bryant Conant and M.I.T. President Karl Comptonon an oak bench in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, to discuss an official report on rubber resources. That bench -facing the wrong end of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson-became...
...over atomic resources and uses. The U.S., he said, "stands ready to proscribe and destroy this instrument-to lift its use from death to life-if the world will join in a pact to that end." But the Soviet Union refused to accept firm controls, and after six months Baruch resigned his post...