May 24, 1961

Dear Bennie:

I would love to take a trip with you to the DEW Line, but more to have a couple of days together than to see the DEW Line, which is just an old gripe of mine with the Air Force. Jerrold Zacharias, Lloyd Berkner and I invented the DEW Line and bled to get it built, and I used to always get annoyed when colleagues of mine at MIT, including Gordon Brown, Dean of Engineering, and a variety of others who had nothing to do with it, were taken on VIP trips to see it. I always blamed Don Putt for the unpopularity of our threesome, and I guess after three or four drinks I unburdened my soul to him, so I wouldn't take this too seriously if I were you.

Incidentally, there might be some better place to visit (the Atlantic Missile Range) if we had a couple of days to spare sometime.

With very best regards,

Sincerely yours,

(signed Jerry)

Jerome B. Wiesner

Lieutenant General B. A. Schriever
Commander
Air Force Systems Command
United States Air Force
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington 25, D.C.

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