In early 1960, Perry Mason author Earl (not Erle) Stanley Gardner and his wife host John W.
Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Edward Teller, Ronald Reagan, Douglas MacArthur
and Jackie Kennedy to discuss a shared dream in which a time-traveling alien requires them to
pick one person to eliminate from history as a prerequisite to a final revision of
mankind’s history.
— Michael Main