• Introduction to the Lecture
• FDR
• Truman
• Eisenhower
• JFK
• JFK
• JFK
• JFK
• LBJ
• Nixon
• Ford
• Carter & Reagan
• Bush & Clinton
• Not to Forget Anyone...

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Welcome again to the Laboratory. My name is James Symons. I'm the director of the Nuclear Science Division here at LBL. Actually, that's the descendent of a division which our speaker founded many years ago, and so it's a real pleasure for me to be able to introduce him to you today. Glenn Seaborg is a very special person for this laboratory and also our state and our country and for the world. He first came to Berkeley 62 years ago. He was a UCLA graduate, which explains why he still supports the Bruins in basketball but the Bears in football. He did his Ph.D. here in the 30's. He then went on to do research on transactinide elements, including the discovery of, first of all, plutonium and then many other elements all the way up to element 106, which is planned to be named seaborgium, so he will be one of the few people with a living element.

After starting his scientific career he then worked during the war on the Manhattan Project, particularly on the chemical projects at Argonne separating plutonium. After the war he continued his scientific career and also his career in public service. In the late 50's he was Chancellor of UC Berkeley. He went back to Washington in 1961 to be Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which he did through the 60's and 70's under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Then he returned to Berkeley, and since that time he's been active continuing with his scientific career and also with a lot of other interests in education and so on. Along the way he won a Nobel prize and did a few other things; so he's had a really marvelous career, and he's still fully active. His office is next to mine, and he's usually in before I am in the morning. He's here every day. He has a tremendous interest in education and arms control and other things which he dedicates his time to these days. I'm taking up too much of his time, so I'd now like to introduce Glenn Seaborg to you and he's going to talk to you about FDR to Bush, 50 years of Advising the Presidents.

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Seaborg: Thank you very much, James. I'm going to talk to you today about nonscientific things. About other aspects of my life. The fact that I've been the advisor to ten Presidents of the United States and that I've met a number of other interesting people. I'm going to illustrate my talk with a rather large number of slides. If you can't absorb them all as fast as I show them, don't worry about it. The point I want to make is to show what can happen to a fellow if he isn't careful.

I began actually not working directly with Franklin Roosevelt. My connection with him was during the war working on the atomic bomb project. I was involved in the discovery of plutonium here at the Berkeley Laboratory (or the Radiation Laboratory as it was called at that time) and then moved to Chicago where the work was centralized and where I was in charge of the chemical processes for the production of plutonium.

Franklin Roosevelt is the only President that I didn't meet personally, but he was of course familiar with the work that I was doing. In the course of my talk I'm also going to show slides that will show you the Vice-Presidents (I've met all the Vice-Presidents as well) and the First Ladies. I'm going to try to work all of that into the slides, so I'll be moving pretty fast.

FDR giving a campaign speech at Soldier Field, Chicago

Eleanor Roosevelt at the World's Fair in Brussels, 1958

Here's the first slide. Although I didn't meet Franklin Roosevelt personally, my wife Helen and I saw him when he was running for his fourth term as President in Soldier Field in Chicago where we were living. Here it is on October 28, 1944, where Franklin Roosevelt is addressing the crowd at that time. My wife Helen and I were sitting up here, in Soldier Field. I met his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, at the time of the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958.

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Harry S Truman

Harry Truman accepting the vice-presidential nomination, 1944

Truman and his family at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1944

My wife Helen and I saw Harry Truman for the first time when he was making his acceptance address upon his nomination as Vice-President of the United States, when the Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago. This was on July 21, 1944. My wife Helen and I were listening to the radio, and we heard the Democratic Convention being broadcast from the Convention Center, got on the streetcar, went down to the Convention Center and walked in and listened to Harry Truman make his acceptance speech. Here we are, standing right over here, as we listened to him. At that time, of course, we also saw his wife Bess Truman and daughter Margaret Truman. I met him on a number of occasions after that.

FDR, Harry Truman, and Henry Wallace, 1944 Union Station Washington, D.C.

Here he's with President Roosevelt as incoming Vice-President and outgoing Vice-President Henry Wallace in November of 1944 after the election.

Excerpts from The Franck Report

I was a member of the Franck committee that made a report, of which I've reproduced a section here, pointing out that we were in a race with the Germans in the development of the atomic bomb. In that report, signed by these members here in June 1945, we made the recommendation to President Truman that the weapon should be demonstrated before it was used in order to give the Japanese a chance to surrender. So far as we know, this recommendation actually never reached President Truman.

Truman's letter to Seaborg

Harry Truman appointed me to the first General Advisory Committee (GAC) to the Atomic Energy Commission, and here is the letter that he wrote to me after I'd returned to Berkeley in 1946 at the end of the war.

Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley

Here is Harry Truman with Alben Barkley, his Vice-Presidential running mate, soon after the election in 1948 when they were elected. I had met Alben Barkley on a number of occasions. I met Harry Truman a number of times after his service as President, and also during his service as President when I was on the General Advisory Committee, but one didn't always have a picture taken on every occasion.

Harry Truman, Seaborg, and LBJ in Kansas City, 1965

Here's an occasion when a picture was taken. This was in June, 1965, when my wife Helen and I flew on Air Force One to San Francisco with President Lyndon Johnson, and he asked the pilot to stop at Kansas City so he could say hello to his old friend Harry Truman. Here's Harry Truman up here, and here am I on that occasion.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower

My wife Helen and I first met Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower at a dinner at the White House in February, 1958. I don't have a picture of that occasion, but here's a picture of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower taken at about that time on their 40th wedding anniversary.

The members of PSAC, 1960

I served on the first President's Science Advisory Committee (they called it PSAC) of Dwight Eisenhower. Here is a picture taken of the members of the PSAC, the President's Science Advisory Committee, when we met with the President in December, 1960. This is President Eisenhower and here am I, in the back row. I don't know why I'm always in the back row of these pictures. Here are the other members of the President's Science Advisory Committee.

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John F. Kennedy

Cartoon by Herb Stansbury

While I was serving as the Chancellor here at the University of California at Berkeley, a position that I had accepted with the understanding that I could retain my connection with the Laboratory, continue as the associate director of the Laboratory, and so forth, on one of my visits to the Laboratory, actually on January 9, 1961, after the election of John Kennedy as President, I got a phone call. One of the people came to me wide-eyed and said, "President-elect John F. Kennedy wants to speak to you." I came on the phone with him, and he said that he would like to have me come to Washington to serve as the Chairman of his Atomic Energy Commission. I said, "Oh gee whiz. How long do I have to make up my mind?" He said, "Well, take your time. You don't have to let me know 'til tomorrow morning." Well, that night I went home, and I put the proposition to my wife Helen, and by that time we had six kids, and they rebelled. They said, "We don't want to go to Washington. Why should we? We're already here in California. Why should we move?" It would be necessary to move to Washington in that job. They demanded a vote. I said, "All right. We'll have a vote." They voted seven to one against going, the six kids and my wife Helen. I exercised the prerogative of the head of a democratic household, and I vetoed the vote.

JFK and Seaborg, 1961

I arrived in Washington before the end of the month, the last day of January, 1961. A couple of weeks later, on February 16, 1961, President Kennedy visited us at our headquarters in the suburb of Washington called Germantown. Here he is getting out of the automobile and characteristically taking off his coat, ready to go to work.

Seaborg and JFK at AEC Headquarters, 1961

Dr. Seaborg briefing President Kennedy

We met in my office so that I could brief him on the work of the Atomic Energy Commission. I like to show this picture because I had in front of me here these Lorna Doone cookies which I liked, and we put in front of President Kennedy these chocolate cookies that I didn't care much about. I briefed President Kennedy on the fundamentals of atomic structure and nuclear structure. Here I am briefing him. I must say he was a pretty apt pupil. He seemed to understand pretty well what I was trying to tell him. In fact, he was a much better pupil than some of the other Presidents that I worked for in trying to understand these things.

Cartoon by Herb Stansbury

One time I was in direct contact with President Kennedy (sometimes we met nearly every day); one time he called me, and one of my young sons answered the phone and he got distracted and didn't get around to telling me until some time afterwards. Finally I went to the phone, and there was President Kennedy at the other end of the line patiently waiting for me, and he went on to whatever he had to say.

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John F. Kennedy

Dr. Seaborg on Meet the Press

In 1961, when we renewed atmospheric testing (we had been in a moratorium on testing when the Soviets suddenly began to test in the atmosphere), I was asked to appear on Meet the Press. Here I am on the Meet the Press program. I had a rough 30 minutes on Meet the Press trying to explain what we were going to do. Actually, this was before we had decided to resume atmospheric testing. I got in touch with President Kennedy before I appeared on Meet the Press and I said, "They're going to ask me if you're going to decide to resume the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, and what shall I say?" And he said, "Oh, be very forthcoming but don't tell them anything." Well, I had a very rough 30 minutes on Meet the Press.

Dr. Seaborg on the cover of Time, 1961

Dr. Seaborg on the cover of Newsweek, 1961

Dr. Seaborg on the cover of Business Week, 1961

At that time, of course, the attention of the whole country was on us and this whole matter of atmospheric testing, and I appeared on the cover of Time magazine. I appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine: I don't know if you'd recognize me there, but that is supposed to represent me. A little later I appeared on the cover of Business Week.

Norris Bradley, John Foster, Ed McMillan, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, JFK, Edward Teller, Robert McNamara, and Harold Brown at LBL before the Charter Day Address, 1962

In March, 1962, President Kennedy flew out to Berkeley in order to give the Charter Day address. We met in front of the Chemistry Building, which was Building 70A, just a couple of hundred feet from here, and here are Norris Bradbury, the Director of Los Alamos; John Foster, the Director of the Livermore Laboratory; Ed McMillan, who was the Director of this Laboratory at that time;and here am I, President Kennedy, Edward Teller, and Bob MacNamara, who was the Secretary of Defense, and Harold Brown, who was the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.

JFK at Memorial Stadium for the Charter Day Address

On that occasion Kennedy gave the Charter Day address in Memorial Stadium, and probably had the biggest crowd that had ever appeared there. The stadium was completely full, and the football field was also filled with chairs and people. On the flight out, he had talked to me about the University and wanted to know something about the people involved and so forth, and he was looking at the text as he was talking to me. I gave him a good deal of the background. I was astonished when he gave the address that he was able to bring out all of the information that I had given him about the people at Berkeley that were working in his administration, and so forth, and pretty well delivered his whole Charter Day address without more than glancing at the printed text.

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John F. Kennedy

A banquet honoring Nobel Prize winners at the White House, 1961

In April, 1962, Kennedy gave a dinner for Nobel Prize winners at the White House. Forty-nine Nobel Prize winners or their representatives were there. There's Pearl Buck; Rudolf Mossbauer, who won the Nobel Prize the previous year, 1961, in physics; Mrs. Ernest Hemingway; President Kennedy; Mrs. George Marshall (George Marshall had won the Nobel Prize for peace); Melvin Calvin, our own Melvin Calvin here at Berkeley, who had won the chemistry prize the year before; and Jacqueline Kennedy. Here am I in the last row. Owen Chamberlain, also a Nobel Prize winner from Berkeley. He's about as tall as I am, so he wound up in the back row.

JFK and Dr. Seaborg at a Nevada nuclear test site

In December, 1962, Kennedy visited the nuclear weapons test site in Nevada. Here I am riding with him. This is one of my favorite pictures with President Kennedy.

Dr. Seaborg's reappointment letter from JFK

On June 27, 1963, he reappointed me as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission to serve another five years. I had accepted an appointment to fill a five-year term in January, 1961, two and a half years to expire in June, 1963. Then one day in June of '63 I got a telegram from the President at home saying he was glad I had decided to accept another term as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. I had done no such thing but my wife Helen and I talked it over and decided, well, what can you do. If the President of the United States thinks you've accepted another term, I guess you have accepted another term. So I stayed on for another five years.

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John F. Kennedy

The Signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, Moscow, 1963

A photo of Nikita Khrushchev taken by Dr. Seaborg with his Minox camera

In August, 1963, I flew on Air Force One to Moscow for the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. Here we have Secretary of State Dean Rusk signing for the United States; Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko, signing for the Soviet Union; and Lord Hume signing for the United Kingdom. Here's Adlai Stevenson, there's Khruschev, and where am I? Here I am. We did the signing in the Kremlin and then went to a neighboring room for a reception after the signing, the Georgian Room; the signing was in St. Catherine's Hall. During that reception, Khruschev pulled a paper out of his pocket with notes on it and gave a talk. I took my life in my hands and took a picture of Khruschev with my Minox camera. I don't know how many of you remember the Minox camera. It's about 2-1/2 inches high. I took it out and snapped a picture and then put this thing back in my pocket, hoping that I wouldn't be caught. I don't know what would have happened if that had happened.

The Seaborg family in Washington D.C., 1964

Here's a picture of my family taken about that time, 1964. Here's my wife Helen, and Eric, Steve, Dave, Pete, Dianne, and Lynne. By this time they were happy in Washington. They liked it. In fact, two of them stayed there. They didn't come back to California.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

LBJ presents Robert J. Oppenheimer with the Enrico Fermi Award

Here, after the assassination of President Kennedy and when Lyndon Johnson took over, he agreed to give the Fermi Award to Robert Oppenheimer. Here we have a picture of him giving that $50,000 Fermi Award to Robert Oppenheimer. Here's his wife, Kitty, and Lady Bird Johnson, and here's my wife Helen.

LBJ and Dr. Seaborg, "chewing the fat"

I had a very good relationship with Lyndon Johnson. This photo is one occasion when he called me and my secretary said, "The President would like to see you." I went to his office and I just spent the whole afternoon there with him, just chewing the fat. The President of the United States gets lonesome sometimes. He just sort of liked me and wanted to spend some time with a friend.

Cartoon by Herb Stansbury

On my visits to the Pedernales Ranch in Texas, where I would go in order to dispute items in the budget for the AEC when I had a disagreement with the director of the Bureau of the Budget, we would fly down to Texas and I would argue with the director of the Bureau saying, "You know, I need the money." and he said, "No, we can't afford it," and so forth. Well, I won every one of those arguments, so you can see I thought he was a pretty good President. On one of those occasions we were driving around, and some of the quail had gotten out of one of their fenced-in areas, and the President got out and chased them back in. I told him I thought that was some of the most high-priced quail chasing that I'd known of. He was quite tickled by my remark.

Cartoon by Herb Stansbury

One time I was swimming in the swimming pool of the University Club when an excited attendant came up and said, "The President wants you on the phone." So I went right to the phone. I didn't have time to even grab a towel because I knew whatever he wanted, I'd have to react right away. He came up with some kind of proposal that I knew wouldn't be feasible, but if I didn't talk him out of it right then I'd be in trouble. I'd have to carry it out. So I managed to talk him out of it and got out of that dilemma; then of course I could go on back and continue my swim.

LBJ greeting the Seaborgs

On August 1, 1966, there was an occasion at the White House where I brought all of our six children and introduced them to the President; and here he is with my wife, Helen, and my daughter Dianne. He was just very charming. He just leaned over and said, "Hello, honeybun," and so forth. And my son Eric, who by the way is 6 ft 5 inches tall now, and my son Steve, my son Dave, who may be here today. He didn't get out of the way, so my daughter Lynne didn't get such a good picture. And my son Peter.

Dr. Seaborg and Vice President Humphrey, 1967

I also knew Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and here I am, March 1967, when I was introducing him at a banquet on the occasion of the Science Talent Search. I served for 30 years as Chairman of Science Service, the organization that put on the Science Talent Search each year.

Dr. Seaborg and Lady Bird Johnson, 1988

I've met Lady Bird Johnson on a number of occasions. Here's an occasion when she spoke in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club in 1988.

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Richard M. Nixon

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ten Oustanding Young Men of 1947	At the Bohemian Grove, 1967	Lynne, Peter, and Dr. Seaborg with Vice President Nixon, 1960

I first met Dick Nixon in January of 1948, when we were among the ten outstanding young men of the year, chosen by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Here's Nixon and here am I. Here's Barbara Walker, who was Miss America of 1947.

I ran into Dick Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and here am I, at the Bohemian Grove in the summer of 1957, when Ronald Reagan was the Governor of California and Nixon was trying to decide whether he would run for President the following year.

On one of their trips to Washington in June, 1960, I brought my daughter Lynne and son Peter around to meet Vice-President Nixon.

Dr. Seaborg and President Nixon, 1969

Dr. Seaborg in the Oval Office accepting his reappointment as AEC Chairman in 1969

When he became President, here I am with him, he asked me to stay on as the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. This is a picture taken in the Oval Office of the White House in January, 1969, that shows Richard Nixon with me and his science advisor Lee Dubridge. And here's Henry Kissinger.

Dr. Seaborg and President Nixon present the Atomic Pioneer Awards to Leslie R. Groves, Vannevar Bush, and James B. Conant

I convinced President Nixon to give special Atomic Pioneer Awards to General Leslie R. Groves, who was in charge of the Manhattan Project, and the scientists who were in charge of the scientific work during World War II, Vannevar Bush and James Conant.

Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon at the dedication of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. 1971

This is just a picture taken in Austin, Texas at the time of the dedication of the Johnson Library in July, 1971. Here's Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson.

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Gerald R. Ford

Seaborg introducing Vice President Ford at the World Future Society, 1974

I knew Gerald Ford during all of the period I was in Washington. He was in the House of Representatives. And then, of course, he was chosen to be Vice-President. Here I am introducing him at a meeting of the World Future Society in April, 1974, just a couple of months before Richard Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became President. I have one interesting story about Gerald Ford. We were at a dinner once, one of these dinners that you always have in Washington, sitting at the head table, very restless. Turned out that it was the night that my alma mater, UCLA, was playing his alma mater, University of Michigan, in the finals of the NCAA basketball. We stole away from the table, went up to a room, watched the thing on TV. Of course he was sort of squirming all the time. I felt pretty confident. UCLA beat Michigan. I, of course, tried to console him. Then we went back down and took our place at the head table, and nobody had missed us.

Betty Ford, 1985

Here we have Betty Ford getting a Golden Plate Award at the American Academy of Achievement dinner in Denver in 1985, one of the chances I had to meet her.

Nelson Rockefeller speaking at Dwinelle Plaza, 1960

Nelson Rockefeller was the Vice-President under Ford. I had met him previously when I was Chancellor at Berkeley, when we had him come to address us during the Presidential campaign of 1960. Here's my son Peter sitting in the front there. This is at Dwinell Plaza on the campus.

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Carter and Reagan

Dr. Seaborg with President Carter and Ted Turner	Rosalynn Carter	President Ford, President Carter, President Nixon, and Admiral Rickover, 1983

I knew Jimmy Carter. He was a nuclear engineer, of course. Here I am with him at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Achievement in Minneapolis in 1984. This is Ted Turner, who is the head of CNN. Here is Rosalynn Carter at the American Academy of Achievement dinner. In 1987 there was a farewell dinner for Admiral Rickover; and here's Nixon and Carter and Ford at that dinner, which was attended by my wife Helen and me.

Meeting of the national Commission on Excellence in Education with President Reagan

Dr. Seaborg holding up a blow up of the cover of the report A Nation at Risk with President Reagan

I was appointed as a member of the National Commission on Excellence in Education that came out with the report, A Nation at Risk. Here we are meeting with President Reagan at the time we gave him our report. Here I am with President Reagan with a mock-up of the report. I'm not so sure he knew what we were talking about.

Helen Seaborg and President Reagan

Mrs. Ingrid Carlsson, the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, greets Dr. Seaborg; in the background is Nancy Reagan

Here we are at one of the White House dinners; my wife Helen shaking hands with President Reagan, and here I am with Nancy Reagan.

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Bush and Clinton

Dr. Seaborg and Vice President Bush with the Science Talent Search finalists, 1982	Vice President Bush at the Swedish Embassy with Ingrid Carlsson, Ulla Wachtmeister, Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, Barbara Bush, and Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 1987

I first met George Bush when he was Ambassador to the United Nations during the Nixon administration. Here I am with him with the 40 Science Talent Search winners in 1982, when he was Vice-President. Here's an occasion at the Swedish Embassy where Barbara Bush is with George Bush and Ambassador Wachmeister, the Swedish Ambassador to the United States.

Dr. Seaborg briefing President Bush on cold fusion at the White House, 1989

I was called to Washington on April 14, 1989, to brief George Bush on cold fusion. I don't know whether you know what cold fusion is, but it was the idea that you could fuse nuclei very easily and get a lot of energy just by passing electric current through heavy water, whereas, of course, physicists had built huge machines and worked for decades trying to do this, spending billions of dollars. The chemists thought they'd really stolen a march on them. The idea swept the country and I was called to Washington to brief President Bush on it. It was a real dilemma. What should I do? I decided to take my background as a nuclear scientist and really come to the sensible conclusion that this work was not right, that it was really cold. You couldn't do it. So that's what I told him at that time. I said, "You can't just go out and say this is not valid. You're going to have to create a high-level panel that will study it for six months, and then they'll come out and tell you it's not valid," and that's what he did.

On this occasion, it was the week that Barbara Bush had been treated with Iodine 131 for her condition of Graves disease, which really alleviated it. I told George Bush, sort of casually, that I'm the discover of Iodine 131 and this helped capture his attention. He said, "You know, the doctor said because Barbara was radioactive with this Iodine 131 that she shouldn't get near the dog. But he didn't say anything about her getting near me."

President Bush and Dr. Seaborg at the Science Talent Search, 1991

President Bush presenting Dr. Seaborg with the National Medal of Science, 1991

Here I am greeting George Bush at the 50th anniversary of the Science Talent Search in 1991. Here I'm receiving National Medal of Science from President Bush in the Rose Garden at the White House in 1991.

Dr. Seaborg and Vice President Dan Quayle, 1990

This is Dan Quayle. I had the function of trying to explain to him the science exhibits of the Science Talent Search with the help of his wife Marilyn, who's pretty bright.

The 1993 Science Talent Search finalists with President Bill Clinton and Dr. Seaborg

Dr. Seaborg with Vice President Gore

Here I am with the Science Talent Search winners two years ago, March, 1993, with President Bill Clinton. Where am I? In the back row! However, I did have a chance to meet with him, and he'd also been asked about cold fusion, and he said he didn't know quite what it was about so he winged it. I said, "Well, it's very cold. Next time you're asked, you can take a dim view of it."

I also met Al Gore on that occasion. I'd known him since he was a teenager because his father, Al Gore, was a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that had close relations with the Atomic Energy Commission.

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Not to Forget Anyone

Dr. Seaborg and Indira Gandhi	Dr. Seaborg with Chou En-Lai in Beijing, China, 1973	Dr. Seaborg with Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson at the International Platform Association in 1984

I'm going to end by just briefly mentioning some of the other people I've met around the world. Here I am with Indira Gandhi in Bombay at the time of the dedication of an atomic center there in January, 1967. Here I am with Chou En-Lai, here's my wife Helen, when we went to the People's Republic of China in 1973 to open up the exchange of information. This was at the time of the cultural revolution, so it was a very interesting trip. Here I am with Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson at the annual banquet of the International Platform Association, of which I served as president for a number of years; this was in 1984.

Dr. Seaborg with talkshow host/Tennis star Jinx Falkenburg

I thought you'd like this, too. This is Jinx Falkenburg, who was a tennis star and also a co-hostess with her husband, Tex McCrary, on a TV show. They had me on as a guest. I was only supposed to be on for a few minutes, but I was there for a whole hour. I guess you can see why. This is not one of my wife Helen's favorite pictures.

Dr. Seaborg with Shirley Temple at the Commonwealth Club, 1984

I also met Shirley Temple. I'd known her on a number of occasions, but this was the occasion when I spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in 1984, when she introduced me.

Dr. Seaborg with Ann Margaret, 1984

And who is that? Ann Margret. We were chosen to receive the Great Swedish Heritage Award jointly in 1984. I have another copy of this picture, which I brought home in order to get it framed for home; and I gave it to my wife Helen, and I waited a week. Nothing happened. I waited two weeks; nothing happened. I waited three weeks; nothing happened. I finally said, "What's happened to my picture with Ann Margret?" She said, "Oh, didn't you know? Nobody's framing pictures anymore."

A youthful Dr. Seaborg with President Lincoln

This is my last slide. Thank you very much.

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There were many steps that went into the production of the online version of Dr. Seaborg's lecture, My Service with Ten Presidents. First, the lecture was videotaped at LBNL's Open House on October 28, 1995. The videotaped version of the lecture was then transcribed and broken up into sections to put into html format. The next step was adding the most important part of the website; the photographs. The slides that Dr. Seaborg has been using in his lecture for years were scanned and stored in LBNL's Image Library. From there the images were then linked to this document to bring the wonderful stories of his years advising the presidents, to life.

If you click on the photos you will get a larger version of the photo. If you click on the captions, you will get the photo credits whenever they are known.

Acknowledgement for the production of this online document goes to the following people and groups who put in their time, energy, and ideas to it's completion.

• Bill Johnston - The Leader of the Imaging and Distributed Computing Group, whose idea it was to make Dr. Seaborg's lectures available to the world.
• Mary Thompson - The implementor of the Image Library software.
• Ben Peters - The creator and designer of this web document, manager of transcribing Dr. Seaborg's lecture.
• Georgia Fujikawa - Assisted in design of the web document.
• Carole Logie for finding the right slides from Dr. Seaborg's extensive slide archives.
• Tammy Cambell and Alma Peterson of the Photo Lab - for the digitizing of Dr. Seaborg's many slides.
• Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg - for generously working with the editor of this document to add additional comments and clarification and most importantly for living a brilliant life.

An honorable mention to these people whose help was greatly appreciated:
Gizella Kapus, Rachel Starbuck, Yulah Sun, Sherrill Whyte and Kristin Balder-Froid.

Ben Peters, July, 1997