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(Anderson 22)
"Born in Albany, New York, Leslie Groves was the son of an army chaplain. He had three years of university before studying at the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1918. As part of the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves took part in many construction projects. By 1941, he was overseeing the building of the Pentagon, the new headquarters for the U.S. War Department and the world's largest office building.
Full of energy and willing to make decisions, Groves could also be gruff. He sometimes annoyed the scientists in the Manhattan Project, whom he viewed as "prima donnas," and he sometimes angered other military personnel. "I hated his guts and so did everybody else," a junior officer recalled.
After the war, Groves oversaw atomic weapons research for two more years. In 1948, he retired from the service and for the next thirteen years worked for a private corporation." (Anderson 22)
"He is most demanding. He is most critical. He is always a driver, never a praiser. He is abrasive and sarcastic. He disregards all normal organizational channels. He is extremely intelligent. He has the guts to make timely, difficult decisions. He is the most egotistical man I know. He knows he is right and so sticks by his decision. He abounds with energy and expects everyone to work as hard, or even harder, than he does...if I had to do my part of the atomic bomb project over again and had the privilege of picking my boss, I would pick General Groves."
-Colonel Kenneth D. Nichols (Kelly 121)
Full of energy and willing to make decisions, Groves could also be gruff. He sometimes annoyed the scientists in the Manhattan Project, whom he viewed as "prima donnas," and he sometimes angered other military personnel. "I hated his guts and so did everybody else," a junior officer recalled.
After the war, Groves oversaw atomic weapons research for two more years. In 1948, he retired from the service and for the next thirteen years worked for a private corporation." (Anderson 22)
"He is most demanding. He is most critical. He is always a driver, never a praiser. He is abrasive and sarcastic. He disregards all normal organizational channels. He is extremely intelligent. He has the guts to make timely, difficult decisions. He is the most egotistical man I know. He knows he is right and so sticks by his decision. He abounds with energy and expects everyone to work as hard, or even harder, than he does...if I had to do my part of the atomic bomb project over again and had the privilege of picking my boss, I would pick General Groves."
-Colonel Kenneth D. Nichols (Kelly 121)