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April 9, 1970

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Professor Lederberg:

Many thanks for your note of March 30, including the copy
of your remarks on "Ecology Dogmatists".

As you say, post-industrial technological development
raises questions of incredible complexity. Even the political and
social theorists who have written most about this (I am thinking
of Daniel Bell's articles in The Public Interest, and Peter Drucker's
The Age of Discontinuity) are not in agreement concerning the likely
contours of our emerging society.

 

I hope you will send me copies of your own writings which
pertain to the sort of policy questions we in Washington are -- or,
in your judgment, should be -- facing. .

cerely oy S;

Gordon Allott
United States Senator

Best regards.

GA:mdr