MICROWAVE LABORATORY
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS LABORATORY
BIOPHYSICS LABORATORY

W. W. HANSEN LABORATORY OF PHYSICS

~ STANFORD UNIVERSITY .
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

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Mr. Ernest C. Pollard.
Biophysics Departaent
Box 2166, Yale Station
Yale Uhiversity

New Riven, Connecticut

Dear Emnie:

Joshua Lederverg has sham me your letter cf May 2 regarding the
fortunes of our accelerator proposal. We are certainly very grateful to
you for your interest and efforte on our behalf. Moreover, we feel that
your analysis of how the situation evolved is very sownd. I would like to
dissent, however, from the implications of the following paragraph:

not be discussed again. However,
people in your position should knew that we feel the partial authorisation
has been a substantial aistake. is vecause it

our ability to acquire the quality staff which isso essential. ‘Thus it
is not primarily a matter of dollare -- three million is a lot of money and
nearly as much as Wve would have spent in the

tion been for the total of one hundred and seven a on

we had difficulty in hiring -- ve have had difficulty in holding some of the
ataff already in place. The problem is one vhich we and others anticipated

if partial authorization was our fate. For example, at the Joint Comittee
Hearings July 14-15, 1959, various statements were made in this regard by both
Stanford and non-Stanford representativies. Henry DeWolf @myth covered the
subject very well, I think, with the following: ’

"I feel very strongly, Mr. Price, that the full amount

should be authorized at this time. This is a point that I
ai4 not cover in ay statement, but as I said at the beginning
of my testimony, I do want to talk ebout it. I have nad

some experience in the past with situations where pre] iminary
design was authorized or repearch was authorized on 4 project,
and then there was a long delay before further authorization
ceme through. This is extremely demoralizing. [t makes it
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lat me repeat my thanks for your interset and support. Shows
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