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LILIENTHAL, DAVID

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LILIENTHAL, DAVID
(1899 - 1981) American lawyer and first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the author of the Lilienthal-Acheson Report adopted by President Harry Truman. Fine content D.S. ""David Lilienthal"" 3pp. 4to., [Washington, Feb. 3, 1947], a typed copy of ""David Lilienthal's Definition of Democracy"" given before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. In very small part: ""àI believeàthe fundamental proposition of the integrity of the individual; and that all government and all private institutions must be designated to promote and protect and defend the integrity of the individualàAny form of governmentàwhich make men means rather than endsàI am deeply opposed. The communistic philosophyàfalls within this categoryà"". Boldly signed at the conclusion, fine condition.