The founding of the American Institute of Physics

First may I add my greeting to Senator McMahon, and add my appreciation of his willingness to meet with us tonight. He and we have a strong bond in common. We physicists have been largely responsible for creating the activity for whose wise handling in the national interest he has so great a responsibility. And may I say, on the basis of several opportunities to see him in the discharge of these responsibilities, that we are very fortunate in having this aspect of our common interest in the hands of a man who has shown such real understanding of the basic conditions for scientific development and for advantageous application of the great potentialities of atomic energy.