These activities took up a great deal of my time and kept me in contact with government operations. I didn't get as deeply into this as, for instance, Oppenheimer did, or Bacher, who became the Civilian Commissioner on the Atomic Energy Commission. But I was asked, much later, in 1956, to become a member of the so-called Science Advisory Committee, which then, in '57, was adopted by the President - then Eisenhower - and became the President's Science Advisory Committee. And that involved a great deal of time, a great deal of work and, I think, also a great deal of accomplishment.

[Q] Right after the war, as you have told us, you come back to Cornell and you and your colleagues, but you certainly become very, if not the dominant personality in this, in building up physics at Cornell and in particular high energy physics at Cornell. The laboratory gets built up as you said.

The most important person was Robert Bacher, but I was in it as well, and in particular, I induced Richard Feynman to come to Cornell. And in the ensuing years, he did his greatest work, namely, quantum electrodynamics.