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...letter currently on display at the Harvard, Archives, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 called on Conant to chair the NDRC. Conant used his position at Harvard to marshal University resources for the atomic research effort...
Though demanding and work-intensive, Conant's dual role as University president and government official sometimes put him in amusing situations...
Revealing the paradoxes inherent in promoting wartime weapons development, Hershberg writes that Conant told Harvard students in 1943: "Let us freely admit that the battlefield is no place to question the doctrine that the end justifies the means, but let us insist...with all our power, that this same doctrine must be republicated...in times of peace...
Uniquely qualified as a top notch scientist, a supporter of America's involvement in the war and president of the nation's premier scientific research university, Conant was tapped by Washington to chair the atomic project...
Hershberg writes that after hearing in 1942 that a Harvard scientist was hesitation to assist the project, Conant vowed in jest, "if it is true that Harvard has refused this request, as chairman of NDRC I will raise cain with the president of Harvard University...