An APS President Reflects on His Two‐Year Term Available to Purchase

When Robert Oppenheimer was president of the APS, just 40 years ago, he observed that, fortunately for the society, it was impossible for a president to do any great damage in a one‐year term. We now have to reassess this observation. Because of the untimely death of my intended successor, George Vineyard, I have had two years to inflict havoc and chaos. Happily, the more permanent staff of the society—Bill Havens, Harry Lustig, Miriam Forman and Bob Park—are all deft at damage‐limiting techniques, and the society has survived, rather well I think, even two years of a transient president.