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It was J. Robert Oppenheimer himself??who chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...
...always underestimated. That too is a mark of the natural man ?the fox taken for a fool who winds up taking the taker. Yet there is no Volpone slyness in Reagan. If he has been underestimated, it may be that he gives every sign of underestimating himself???not as a tactic, but honestly. So wholly without self-puffery is he that he places the burden of judging him entirely on others, and since he is wholly without self-puffery, the judgment is almost always favorable. He simply appeals to people, and despite his years, there is hardly anyone...
...talking with businessmen. Though he created a million-dollar agribusiness, he is a rural populist, and so he has been suspicious of big interests, including corporations. In just the past several months, however, the President has come to believe that many business chiefs are much like himself???up from the bottom, and not without compassion?and that they may have some provocative ideas about his No, 1 domestic problem: the economy...
...Business." But it is a natural enough view for his Secretary of the Treasury, W. (for Werner) Michael Blumenthal, who, after a rocky beginning in his post, has in the past few months gained clear pre-eminence among the President's economic aides. Blumenthal is a former Big Businessman himself???he was chairman of Bendix Corp. before he came to Washington?and, though he has never been fully accepted by corporate leaders as one of their own, he knows how his former colleagues in the executive suite think...
...exactly according to facts," he said as he rose and responded to the tributes, "but I am sufficiently fragile and weak as to want to believe every single word you have said." His voice at times wavering with emotion, he launched into the new agenda he has set for himself???to restore harmony in the Senate, to rebuild trust in Government. At the end of his 15-minute speech, he apologized facetiously. "Well, I got wound up. I did not intend to be that long?but that has been the story of my life...