not it might succeed. 



Revelle: Well, Jack had raised some money for it. He not only got 

 the Richard Saltonstall Professorship, but he persuaded 

 Lament Dupont Copeland, the president of the Dupont Company, 

 to endow four so-called Andelot Professorships. 



Sharp: Right, yes, I have seen mention of those. 



Revelle: And he had some promises of support from the Ford and 



Rockefeller Foundations, although there wasn't anything 

 specific about it. Also, we at least — I'm not sure that 

 he did — we did get some support from Cornelia Sacife May 

 of the Mellon family. 



Sharp: In some of the budgets, those professorships are listed, and 

 the fact that they are named and endowed. In some ways it's 

 really easy to see how the funding was put together through 

 those different endowments. 



Revelle: That's right. 



Sharp: I thought we might talk some about the funding of the 

 center. We can do that now, but there was one other 

 activity that you were involved in that seemed like a real 

 departure for you. 



That was the work that you and some other people were 

 doing for Lyndon Johnson. In August of 1964, before you 

 actually went to Harvard, you and some other people put 

 together this committee of scientists and engineers for 

 Johnson. 



Do you remember that? 



Revelle: 

 Sharp : 



Revelle: 



Sharp: 



Revelle: 



Sharp: 



Revelle: 

 Sharp: 



Yes. 



And George Kistiakowsky and Jerry Wiesner headed it, I 

 guess, but it was your idea? 



No, it wasn't my idea. I think it was their idea. 



Oh, was it? What did you do? 



Well, we essentially wrote position papers for those guys, 

 or tried to write position papers, and also we got quite a 

 bit of publicity, although we didn't spend much money. It 

 was called "Scientists and Engineers for Humphrey and for 

 Johnson." This was apparently sort of standard operating 

 procedure in those days. Not anymore. It was then. It 

 was, for me at least, not very time consuming. I never made 

 any political speeches or anything like that. 



But this kind of politics was not something that you got 

 involved in very much. 



Never did. 



I didn't find too much mention of it. 



