Discussion includes: his childhood and early education, his undergraduate study at Cooper Union and City College of New York; his graduate work at Brown University under Leon Cooper; his post doc at Rutgers; move to MIT's National Magnet Lab; early work with superconductivity and magnets; prevalence of classified work ; emerging interest in science policy; interest and role in the Anti-ballistic missile movement; Charlie Schwartz; ABM's effect on American Physical Society meetings; Schwartz's "Alchemical method" and APS reaction to it; tenure at MIT denied; move to Brooklyn College; building up the science program there; academic politics; becomes Education Officer of the American Physical Society in the late 1980s; AIP/APS move to College Park, Maryland; fund raising for APS; planning Centennial; major changes in physics during his career.