President Lyndon Johnson presents the Fermi Award to Robert Oppenheimer and a $50,000 prize. Nine years after the verdict suspending access to classified material, this marks a public reconciliation between the government and the scientist. Robert delivers a speech in which he says: “…we are engaged in this great enterprise of our time, testing whether men can both preserve and enlarge life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and live without war as the great arbiter of history.” Edward Teller, Oppenheimer’s former colleague, is present at the ceremony and shakes the scientist’s hand. Kitty, Robert’s wife, has not forgiven Teller for his testimony against her husband at the Security Hearing nine years earlier.
