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Date: December 27, 1971
Henry S. Kaplan, M.D.
Department of Radiology
Joshua Lederberg

Chairmanship, Department of Radiology

I read your letter about stepping down from Radiology with a real sense
of compassion, but not with any uncertainty of feelings. You have been the
pillar of strength in the development of our school, and at no time, even
during the worst of our conflicts, have I had anything less than the deepest
respect for your purposes and accomplishments. But I know you will be much
happier in the role implied by cancer biology, one in which the challenges
of innovation in science and in therapy weigh reasonably heavier than the
administrative and political efforts of a large department,

What you now envisage is in fact very similar to the kind of position
I have tried to build for myself, and hope to continue to enjoy. And I
think you know that you have my consistent and conscientious support in
that development, ,

This may not always be obvious, And indeed there are issues - like
centralization of authority of a cancer center ~ on which our views have
conflicted, But much more than you may realize, my efforts have been tore a
struggle to articulate a formula that I feel has a chance of working, through
the reconciliation of divergent interests of others, than a strong polarization
on my part for a particular pattern. I am sure that our current Cancer Center
planning effort was in grave risk of collapse at several points save for
compromises in which I was much more arbiter than protagonist, notwithstanding
I did a lot of the talking. a

Anyhow, Henry, I am very much behind you in this new effort, and I hope
you will have a place for my participation as a Scientific colleague -
so the sooner the political hassles are cleared up, the better.

 

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