DRAFT KOHN: Well I suppose I would say that I was the outstanding and middle-aged fella who could do be that bold. Well, thoroughly trained. it. I don't know. No, I won't I was probably the only one who was And who also was in the physical end. oh there was the fellow who was the head of the biology division at the Argon National Laboratory. There was a fellow by the name of Austin Breus. BERGE: B-R-E-U-S? KOHN: Yes, than I am. Have you ever heard of him? He's a little older I don't know whether he's still alive. a good friend of Shields, Breus who recommended me to Warren. I think Warren more or less offered the job first to Henry Kaplan at Stanford, some remarkable requests, shall we say, Then they came down to me. and he made which they couldn't meet. so I but they didn't offer him quite the same job that they offered me. be frank, I think they had I never discussed it with Henry, But I do know, I I believe it was made some inquiries and then offered me the job. committee and so forth. he was and in my work with the AEC and etc., knew Breus when I visited the lab and so forth. don't quite know. Anyhow, I was duly examined by a I don't think there was a great deal, to I don't think there was much competition for this job because it was a job which presumably required some knowledge of both biology and medicine, practicing medicine, so forth. I think the man who was they didn't pay him enough money there having 32