STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

she STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 ¢ (415) 321-1200

August 12, 1971

Department of Genetics

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Honorable Daniel J. Flood
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Mr. Flood,

I am sure that you are relieved to be past the arduous work
of the HEW appropriation act. I apologize that I did not find the
time in the appropriate interval to communicate with you prior to
the passage of the bill through your committee.<But your good work
speaks for itself and I am not sure that I could have added very
much to what you already knew and felt.

May I, however, take the occasion to send you a remarkable
example of life-protecting advance that has materialized rather
unexpectedly from very basic research in genetics, I know that
this aspect of health research has had your special attention
during the last two years, Not so many people are aware, in a way
that the hepatitis story illustrates, of the very broad ramifications
of what sometimes seem to be highly esoteric studies,

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

IL/rr

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