We know that the decisions we reach will have a PROFOUND IMPACT on the communities HOSTING our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

The first TRUE antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our DEPARTMENT in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was SOON crystallized, and its CHEMICAL and biological properties were established.

I feel now, as we did then, that for an EFFECTIVE APPROACH to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was ESSENTIAL to UNDERSTAND the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these CONCEPTS and methodology well in hand.

My own LIFE changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after ALMOST a YEAR in Army HOSPITALS, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.

We need to BUILD on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative WAYS for Americans to build wealth and SAVE for retirement. I BELIEVE we can work TOGETHER in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

What we NEED are different TYPES of INSURANCE, some of which have copays, some that have coinsurance, but they need to OFFER a BETTER first layer of coverage.

It's not ENOUGH to have ECONOMIC GROWTH. You have to distribute WEALTH throughout all of SOCIETY.

There's some WAY in which we WOULD prefer not to see very clearly the IMMENSE gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at WORK in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

From the BEGINNING of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare GOOD fortune of being in the center of a GROUP of men of HIGH ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.