July 28, 1969 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Bill from Pacific Gas and Electric Company to LP for $20.28. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.063, Folder #4.063, Box #63.1].

Check and check stub from AHP to Sierra Club for $50.00, as a donation. [Check filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.031, Folder #31.1. Stub filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.078, Folder #78.1].

Check and check stub from AHP to Standard Oil Co. of Calif for $72.90. Noted on the stub is "me 7.25, Paddy, 65.65. [Check filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.031, Folder #31.1. Stub filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.07, Folder #78.1].

Check from LP to Gladys B. Kearns for $54.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.038, Folder #38.4].

Check from LP to Intl Congress of Crystallography for $55.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box 4.038, Folder #38.4].

Check from LP to Orville N. Molmen Tax Collector for $12.95. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.038, Folder #38.4].

Check from LP to Polycrystal Book Service for $89.25. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.038, Folder #38.4].

Check from LP to The Boroughs and Associates for $1171.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.031, Folder #31.1].

Letter from LP to Dr. Abram Hoffer RE: Tells Hoffer that he will be unable to participate in the symposium for the American Schizophrenia Foundation of Alameda County Chapter since he is already scheduled to be at a meeting of a chemical society on the day of October 25^th. [Letter from LP to Hoffer, 1969] [Letter from Hoffer to LP, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hoffer, Abram (1957-1989)), Box #160, Folder #160.5]

Letter from LP to Dr. Emile Zuckerkandl, Département de Biochimie Macromoléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, RE: Apologizes for not answering Zuckerkandl's letter sooner and describes his dilemma about his upcoming trip to Europe. Mentions that several Swedish universities invited him to visit them while he is in Stockholm for the Nobel Conference, so he feels obligated to accept. Tells Zuckerkandl that because of the full schedule, he has decided not to stop in Montpellier in September, especially since Dr. Arthur Robinson will have already visited Zuckerkandl and Galzigna. [Letter from LP to Zuckerkandl, 0, 1969] [Letter from Zuckerkandl to LP, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Zuckerkandl, Emile, 1958-1980), Box #465, Folder #465.12]

Letter from LP to Dr. Joshua Bierer, Second International Congress of Social Psychiatry, RE: Updates him on his and AHP's travel plans and accepts his invitation to a dinner party. [Letter from LP to Bierer, 7, 1969] [Letter from Bierer to LP, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]

Letter from LP to Eugene C. Pulliam, Publisher, Arizona Republic, RE: Suggests that Pulliam and Julian DeVries, Medical Editor of the Arizona Republic attend the Second International Congress of Social Psychiatry in London. [Letter from Pulliam to LP, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1969), Box #1969s, Folder #1969s.10]

Letter from LP to Oliver Benn RE: Gives Benn the dates that he and AHP will be traveling to Europe. [Letter from LP to Benn, 1969] [Letter from Benn to LP, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]

Letter from LP to Ronald W. Clark. [Letter from Clark to LP, 8, 1969] [Letter from LP to Clark, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1966-1969), Box #78, Folder #78.4]

July 28, 1969

Mr. Konalds W. Clark

10 Campden Street

Kensington,

London W8, England

Dear Mr. Clark:

I have found the quotation from Einstein about which you wrote to me, and I send it to you herewith.

I visited Professor Einstein once every few months for a number of years, in Princeton. My last visit with him was from 11:00 A. M. to noon on 16 November 1954.

Just before I said goodbye to him he made the statements quoted below. I made an effort to fix them in my mind, and as soon as I had said goodbye and reached the sidewalk I jotted them down in my 1954 pocket diary.

In our discussion of world affairs he said to me "Oxenstierna said to his son ‘You would be astonished to know with how little wisdom the world is governed’".

He also said that he was glad to see, from reports in the New York Times, that I had made good use of the Nobel Prize in my public statements. (I did not make a verbatim record of this statement: the foregoing sentence is written in my diary.)

Then he made the following statement to me: "I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them".

This sentence, in quotation marks, is exactly as it appears in my diary.

I think that we discussed this matter somewhat further, but I do not remember anything definite about the discussion.

My wife and I fly to London tomorrow. We shall be there from 30 July to 12 August, staying in the Swiss Cottage Hotel. We are attending the Second World Congress of Social Psychiatry.

Sincerely,

Linus Pauling

LP:rh

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