Assignment Quotes
The Senator was one of the few Americans who knew that we were trying to develop and atomic weapon. One of the political problems was spending the huge sums of money that were necessary without the purpose becoming public. In a private meeting, President Roosevelt asked the Senator if he would help the administration hide $2 billion from public view. And that was the origin of the huge federal atomic laboratories at Oak Ridge, TN. This may have been the biggest piece of pork in American History and yet the Senator could never tell anyone that he had obtained it for his state.
After a bomb destroyed her carriage, killed ten persons and wounded 140, but failed to kill her or her husband, Napoleon BonaparteII, she staggered from the wreckage and said: