S] ANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
300 PASTEUR DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

DE TMENT OF GENETICS
Professor Joshua Lederberg

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Hon Edward I. Koch | ' JUL 1 1969

House of Representatives
Washington D.C.

Year Mr. Koch:

Thank you for your hospitality on the occasion
of the breakfast meeting on CBW. I hope we are not
being too optimistic in the feeling that we may
be getting somewhere on this issue, and I am deeply
grateful for your interest in it. a, D Lo awa Hinss
per. ? ~ t

I also just noticed your remarks on the NSF and
other science programs in the Congressional itecord
for June 24, which I found most thoughtful and
well directed. It is very difficult for me to un-
derstand the penny-wise,pound-foolish attitudes
underlying the vote here, in contrast to the irre-
Sistible urge to spend billions on the ABM, I can't
help feel that there are unstated resentments that
have nothing to do with fiscal economy. Even Hr.
Daddadario's emphasis on the routing of the restored
funds to institutional grants for the particular
benefit of the smaller schools seemed to fall on
deaf ears. (I am not so naive as to think that these
matters are usually settled on the floor of the whole
house.) It puzzled me that the final vote on the
Giamo amendgment (C/R p. H5146) was taljen in the
Committee of the Whole by only 31:72, a very small
part of the membership. Is this customary, or would
it have made no difference anyhow.

 

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