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Lewis Strauss
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer. He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chairman in the 1950s. Strauss was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons after World War II, nuclear energy policy, and nuclear power in the Uni…
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business · American governmental official (1896–1974) · politician · businessperson · naval officer · admiral · banker · also Lewis Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Lewis L. Strauss, Strauss
Born 31 January 1896 · Died 21 January 1974 · Q1822160
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2026· 5 entries
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2024· 1 entry
The Washington Post: What 'Oppenheimer' gets right in portraying Lewis Strauss
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2023· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “In 1959, then-U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy voted to oppose the nomination of Lewis L. Strauss' role as U.S. Secretary of Commerce.” True.
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Bernstein stated that evidence developed in the prior two decades that Oppenheimer had been a secret member of the Communist Party partially vindicated Strauss
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2022· 1 entry
Jennifer Granholm, the United States Secretary of Energy – head of the successor organization to the AEC – vacated the 1954 revocation of Oppenheimer's security clearance
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1974· 2 entries
At his home, the Brandy Rock Farm in Brandy Station, Virginia
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Died 1974-01-21.
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1962· 1 entry
Hoover wrote in a letter to Strauss: "Of all the men who have come into my orbit in life, you are the one who has my greatest affections, and I will not try to specify the many reasons, evidences or occasions
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1959· 3 entries
Just after midnight, the Strauss nomination failed by a vote 46–49
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Where Strauss was not confirmed by the U
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Received a Gold Star in lieu of a fourth award, this time for his work on atomic energy as it benefited the Navy as a source of power and ship propulsion
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1958· 2 entries
Strauss was presented with the Medal of Freedom, a civilian honor, by President Eisenhower
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Won Medal of Freedom (1958).
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1956· 1 entry
A Doctor of Science from the University of Toledo in 1957,
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1955· 3 entries
“Informal Talk As Delivered Yesterday By Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission, To National Press Club”
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Strauss received a silver plaque from the Men's Club of Temple Emanu-El for "distinguished service"; President Eisenhower sent a message to the ceremony saying the honor was well-deserved
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Strauss helped arrange the U
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1954· 5 entries
The AEC upheld the findings of the Personnel Security Board, by a 4–1 decision, with Strauss writing the majority opinion
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“For the first time in my life, I have enemies.”
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“Remarks Prepared by Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for delivery to Joint U.S .- Canada Civil Defense Committee Battle Creek, Michigan, Oct. 19, 1956”
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“Remarks Prepared by Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission, For Delivery At The Founders' Day Dinner, National Association of Science Writers, on Thursday, September 16, 1954”
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Predicting that atomic power would make electricity "too cheap to meter"
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1953· 4 entries
Eisenhower, after consulting with Strauss and others, ordered a "blank wall" between Oppenheimer and all areas of government
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When he was AEC chair and the nuclear arms race was underway, and the second was in 1959 during his Secretary of Commerce confirmation process
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To ascertain the impact of radioactive fallout, generated from repeated nuclear detonations of greater and greater yield, on the world's population
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Oppenheimer stated in the July edition of Foreign Affairs that he believed the Soviets were "about four years behind" in nuclear weapons development
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1950· 1 entry
Truman decided to go forward with hydrogen-bomb development
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1949· 2 entries
The pious Strauss expressed no doubt about what the Soviets would do, writing that "a government of atheists is not likely to be dissuaded from producing the weapon on 'moral' grounds
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Oppenheimer had given a mocking answer to a point Strauss had raised on the subject, a humiliation that Strauss did not forget
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1948· 1 entry
And 1949 Oppenheimer had tried to stop the long-range airborne detection system that Strauss had championed and that had worked in discovering the Soviet Union's first atomic weapon test
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1947· 4 entries
Strauss had been in a dispute with the General Advisory Committee (GAC) of senior atomic scientists, which Oppenheimer chaired and which reported to the AEC, over whether exporting radioisotopes for medical purposes was
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The United States transferred control of atomic research from the U
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Strauss, a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, presented Oppenheimer with the institute's offer to be its director
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For his work during and after the war as a special assistant to the Navy secretary and on joint Army–Navy industrial mobilization boards
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1946· 2 entries
“A Short History of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-2009”
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And he served as the commission's chairman in the 1950s
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1944· 2 entries
To rear admiral did not happen at the time due to a variety of factors, including that President Franklin D
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A Doctor of Humane Letters from Case Institute of Technology in 1948,
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1942· 1 entry
As the Army-Navy "E" Award, and over the course of the war over 4,000 of them were granted
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1939· 1 entry
And 1940, as World War II began overseas, he volunteered for active duty
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1935· 1 entry
And his father of the same disease in 1937
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1933· 2 entries
“The years from 1933 to the outbreak of World War II will ever be a nightmare to me, and the puny efforts I made to alleviate the tragedies were utter failures, save in a few individual cases—pitifully few.”
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Was a member of the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee
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1930· 1 entry
On behalf of the White House, he conspired with two naval intelligence officers to illegally break into the office of a Tammany Hall follower in New York who was thought to hold documents that would be damaging to Hoover
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1929· 2 entries
When the congregation was absorbing the merger of Temple Beth-El
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At which point he was making a million dollars a year, and he endured the Wall Street Crash of 1929 without significant financial damage
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1925· 2 entries
And would be the last one until John Tower in 1989
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Becoming effective 1926, and he received an officer's commission as a lieutenant intelligence officer
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1923· 1 entry
Strauss married Alice Hanauer in a ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York
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1919· 1 entry
As manifested in the Polish–Soviet War, led to a powerful and lifelong anti-Communist sentiment
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-01-31.
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