DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN
NEW YORK

Wnited Dlafes Henate

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
October 31, 1980

  

Pee pashan

Dear Friend:

I was one of those asked to lecture on the occasion of
the 100th anniversary of the Columbia Graduate School. I
chose as my subject the somewhat lugubrious subject "The =
University and the State". The "turnout" in Low Library
that evening suggested that word of this had got around. And
so I inflict on those who have no choice but to open their
mail!

As you will see, I am quite disturbed. Since September 30
A. Bartlett Giamatti has spoken in even stronger terms. (I
refer to them in a footnote added since.) But what will be
done?

There is a touch of professional hubris in my observations.
I do honestly think that had university leaders paid a little
more attention to the political scientist writing on this
subject in the late 1960's and early 1970's we would not be
so badly off.

Sincerely,

A-OK,

Daniel Patrick Moynih
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