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because when I was chairman I was in and out of it a lot, so I'm not sure of the frequency of the meetings.

They were the best meetings of their kind that I ever went to anyplace at any time. The board was a distinguished board. We had a couple of Nobel Prize winners on the board. Ernest [O.] Lawrence, for example, of the Lawrence laboratories at Berkeley was on the board. Bill [William R.] Hewlitt of Hewlitt Packard was on the board. I was going to say Gene -- can't think of his first name -- [Julius A.] Stratton, who was then chancellor of MIT, was on the board. The provost of Cal Tech was on the board. Not only a provost but later the head of Cal Tech -- was on the board -- Lee [A.] Dubridge. Caryl [P.] Haskins, who was the head of the Carnegie Foundation in Washington was on the board.

Q:

Were there other people from the media, the world or the media or --

Stanton:

I invited Phil [Philip L.] Graham on the board, who was then the publisher of the Washington Post. I think he was the only person from the media during the first twenty years of RAND. I'm sure there was no one before I was on the board from either the press or the broadcast press. I invited Newt Minnow on the board after he retired as chairman of the FCC -- not because he was from the media but because I though the was a very bright lawyer who represented an inquiring mind and the kind of leadership that I thought he could bring to the board from the Middle West. But there were strong physicists on the board and economists and so forth.

The board association was very strong, but the personnel, the people at RAND were really star quality in their fields.





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