Richard Saltonstall Professorship of Population Policy, 

 they offered me that chair and the directorship of the 



center. 



So 



Another person involved with it was Dana Farnsworth, 

 who was head of the Student Health Service, and Ross 

 McFarland who was a physiologist who had worked on aerospace 

 problems, problems of aviation physiology, particularly 

 problems of low oxygen at high altitudes. I remember Tom 

 Weller was also a member of this group that interviewed me. 



Sharp: When was all of this taking place? 



Revelle: In 1964, the spring of 1964. I had worked a lot with 



several people, the ones on the Pakistan project, and Harvey 

 Brooks, who was a good friend of mine too, although he was 

 not a member of our panel. He was sort of assistant to 

 Jerry Wiesner as the President's science advisor. 



Sharp: Were you considering other places to go at this point? 



Revelle: No, I wasn't. I wanted to stay here as chancellor of the La 

 Jolla campus. Herb York had resigned and they were looking 

 for another chancellor. He didn't last very long. At that 

 time he was not much of a professor or much of a chancellor. 

 He's become a wonderful professor, and since then he has 

 been acting chancellor. He has been everything. He has 

 been chairman of the senate as well as acting chancellor. 

 He's an absolutely first-rate guy, but he just wasn't much 

 of an academic then, he didn't really understand how the 

 university worked. Clark [Kerr] essentially fired him. 



They were looking for a new man, and I thought by this 

 time the antagonism might have died down, but it hadn't, in 

 the Board of Regents, apparently. So I told you yesterday 

 that Clark was out poisoning plants when I said I had to 

 talk to him! Then later he came up with this idea that I 

 should retain my professorship here as well as at Harvard, 

 but that was impossible. 



Sharp: This letter, the one that you wrote in June of 1964, I'm 



sure you remember it.* It set out some of the pretty strong 

 feelings you had about the new obligations that you had to 

 Harvard and trying to keep those clear. 



Revelle: Sure. 



Sharp: I wasn't sure what was behind all of the — . 



Revelle: Well, it was just sort of a foolish move on his part, 



obviously impossible. I let him down gently by saying he 

 should confer with Dean Snyder about it, but as far as I 

 know he never did. 



Sharp: There is the juxtapositioning of the position being created 

 at Harvard. I'm wondering if you thought about what was 

 going to happen if that didn't come through? 



Revelle: 



Oh, I really hadn't worried about that; I didn't really want 



