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I knew what
I wanted to do and I went ahead and did it.
SSH:
Why do you suppose you were chosen for that position?
KGS;
I have no idea, excepiformaybe the University's
experience with me at Bikini.
SSH:
Could it also be something to do with the fact that you
seem to be able to get along with the clinicians and you
were on good enough terms with Hamilton?
In other words
you. weren't a terribly controversial figure.
KGs:
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Well, they didn't know thengrGhen they put me in that
position.
They knew I was one of Stone's protege, which
was something that was so much in my favor around there
that I don't think anyone would have crossed him on it.
" SSH:
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How did you become a protege® of Stone's?
KGS:
Through the Manhattan District, and before that.
SSH:
What had been oa relationship in the war years?
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KGS:
I used to see "pin about once a month.I'd go back to
theUniversity of Chicago and have a dinner with him
and talk to hin.