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Vice President and Provost

7/23/68

Dear Josh,

I don't want to become an unseemly
one-man claque, but your column of Jul
13th (Wash. Post) is too brilliantly on

Ceerset to ignore,

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Are young people really so ryfkdmyopic
that they can only see ROTC and the
selection of SU's next President as
fssues worth conducting a revolution for ?
By pointing out that the condition of the
last 30 years is not an imutable fact of
nature like rain and sun you remind
People (of any age) that caring about
the really important might actually do
some good.

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right and Red-hating move-
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to fear. Rational argument
is not necessarily better at
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according to the studies of
social psychologists, is co-
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STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER

PASTEUR DRIVE,

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Professor Joshua Lederberg

Dear Dick--

Thank you for
out a weekl
I won't get
or criticisms,

I will be very hanupy to
it, and will take responsibility for

your note of the 23a,
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bored by either

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Putting

your commendations

have the saily print
the formal

approval of the copyright-holder (the Post).

May I suzgest that
our students (pe

of your note?

you think about addressing

rhaps the same way) in the spirit

Sincerely,

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