Harry and I joined Rand in the same month (September 1951 as I recall), but from then on he was generally a step or so ahead of me.  We were part of a group of economists hired into Rand's newly formed Cost Analysis section.  The work there, we discovered, was not the most stimulating at Rand.  Within the first year Harry had decamped to work on a project under Albert Wohlstetter, and not long after, Harry approached me about meeting Albert.  He described him as unlike anyone he had met, effervescing with ideas about Rand work literature and the arts.  Their task was to respond to an Air Force request for advice on the cost of an overseas base system for our strategic air forces, but Albert and Harry had broadened it to encompass the design of the aircraft and the operating system of the force as well.  When I met Albert I concurred with Harry's judgment about him and their project, and accepted the invitation to join them.

The study’s results in hand, Harry and Albert went off to Washington to present the results to  the Air Force, while I remained at Rand finishing our report.  After completing the report I joined them in Washington, where Albert was briefing groups of Air Force officers two or three times a day and Harry and I were his stage hands, transporting and manipulating the large and heavy posters he used (no digital equipment or even slides in those days—probably contributed to our massive upper body development).  We also followed up with officers who wanted to explore additional questions about the study.

I believe that initial study we collaborated on and subsequent ones that one or another of us participated in, with Albert Wohlstetter, laid the basis for the U.S. strategy of maintaining peace in a nuclear age. 

Through much of our careers from then on, Harry played the same role, moving on, a step ahead of me.  Harry went to Washington with the first wave of McNamara’s whiz kids from Rand, while I was part of a Rand detachment at NATO Headquarters in Paris.  Departing that assignment, I joined the Office of Systems Analysis in the Pentagon while 'Harry was still in the Office of international Security Affairs and remained there while Harry moved to the Bureau of the Budget to introduce Systems Analysis to the domestic agencies of the government.  When he left, becoming Rand's president, I moved into his former job at the Budget Bureau, and then Ellen and I followed Bev and Harry back to Los Angeles in 1969 with the advent of the Nixon administration.  Moving back into our Mandeville Canyon house, we became neighbors of Bev and Harry and our families resumed social relations.  Professionally I continued to be in contact with Harry through my membership on various Defense Department advisory groups while he went into and out of various government positions.

Throughout the more than 60 years from our meeting in 1951 Harry was among my dearest friends.  I treasured the all too rare occasions when we met and I could enjoy his warmth, humor and the new ideas he invariably offered.  His passing leaves a large and painful void.