"I am glad to learn that the Office of Scientific Research and Development is willing to enter into a contract for support of our further investigation concerning the development of [the] important partial pressure indicator."
Linus Pauling. Letter to Vannevar Bush. August 15, 1941.

"Confirming Dr. Conant’s recent telephone conversation with you, I am pleased to appoint you Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Internal Ballistics as related to Hyper-Velocity Guns."
Vannevar Bush. Letter to Linus Pauling. August 11, 1942.

"I will feel that the study of this subject is well started, and that fully appropriate steps for meeting the President's wishes have been taken, if the group selected can be brought together promptly, and I hope I may soon have indication of your willingness to serve in this connection."
Vannevar Bush. Letter to Linus Pauling. January 5, 1945.

"I am very pleased to accept the appointment mentioned in your letter of January 5 as a member of the special committee which will devote its attention to the question of the future of medical research in this country."
Linus Pauling. Letter to Vannevar Bush. May 11, 1945.

"I am very glad to receive a copy of your report to the President. I have read this report with great interest, and with complete approval."
Linus Pauling. Letter to Vannevar Bush. June 5, 1945.

"Your efforts in this Division have been a great value to the Nation. The development of chromatographic methods of analysis is, in itself, a substantial contribution which is widely used throughout the country wherever investigations of rocket powder are under way. Your studies of stability and surveillance methods have been very helpful in all powder developments and in settling difficulties encountered in manufacturing operations. Your recent suggestion of the use of rate control strands or particles has made the program on castable double base powder much more effective and should give the product a wider range of properties and applications. I believe that you were most helpful in all the Division's undertakings and have every right to feel proud of each contribution."
Vannevar Bush. Letter to Linus Pauling. June 14, 1945.

"I thank you for you letter...and the copy of your report to the President. You may be assured that I shall do everything possible to stimulate consideration of the matter presented in your report by local groups in this section of the country. I am, as you know, in whole-hearted agreement with the recommendations which you make."
Linus Pauling. Letter to Vannevar Bush. July 20, 1945.

"I thank you for you letter...and the copy of your report to the President. You may be assured that I shall do everything possible to stimulate consideration of the matter presented in your report by local groups in this section of the country. I am, as you know, in whole-hearted agreement with the recommendations which you make."
Linus Pauling. Letter to Vannevar Bush. July 20, 1945.

"We were agreed that the war was bound to break out into an intense struggle, that America was sure to get into it in one way or another sooner or later, that it would be a highly technical struggle, that we were by no means prepared in this regard, and...that the military system as it existed...would never fully produce the new instrumentalities which we would certainly need."
Vannevar Bush. Pieces of the Action. 1970.

"I had a plan for the NDRC in four short paragraphs in the middle of a sheet of paper. The whole audience lasted less than ten minutes... I came out with my 'OK - FDR' and all the wheels began to turn."
Vannevar Bush. Pieces of the Action. 1970.

"There were those who protested that the action of setting up NDRC was an end run, a grab by which a small company of scientists and engineers, acting outside established channels, got hold of the authority and money for the program of developing new weapons. That, in fact, is exactly what it was."
Vannevar Bush. Pieces of the Action. 1970.

"Sam Rosenman and I drafted the order establishing the O.S.R.D. - mostly Rosenman with me hanging hard on the outskirts. The order assigned the N.D.R.C. as one component of the new office, and that assignment brought the only change in the civilian membership of the N.D.R.C. to occur during its lifetime."
Vannevar Bush. Pieces of the Action. 1970.

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