NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20550

July 25, 1966

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical School
Stanford, California 94305

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Dear Joshua:

Your new weekly column, "Science and Man," for the Washington Post

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Company is a brilliant idea and an important service. I am so
pleased that the column has been conceived and that you are writing
it.

For some time I have been urging the NSF to establish an office
whose primary concern would be to alert congressmen, statesmen, ®

clergymen and other thinking individuals of the implications of
e the applications of new discoveries and technical advances. Your
new column will undoubtedly accomplish the same purpose more iu .
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May you influence the thinking of many, many people. ‘
Sincerely yours,

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Herman W. Lewis
y Program Director for
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