Memo from To: Yon. Pete McCloskey
nea nee,

JOSHUA LEDERBERG
10 August 1974

(A sobering, still glorious day)

I assumed you would have cancelled your en-
gagements here for today. Please let me know
if there are any later convenient opportunities.
Thank you for the GAO material.

I suspect that the President may be asking
you for suggestions along the lines of a policy of
national reconciliation. If you have the opportunity
‘to communicate this, I think he might well consider
the reinstatement of the Office of the Science Advi-~
ser in some meaningful form. I would not be cha-
grinned to see this in OMB, headed by another
Deputy Director, rather than as an independent offie
of purported (and never really) equal status. There
are other viable approaches. Nor is this a Rad-Lib
plot: for example, ask Pat Haggerty (President of
Texas Instruments) what he thinks of it, and also fo1
nominations. Such a step would not be very costly
in any dimension, and could go a long way to recruit
a large segment of the academic community into a
sense of faith in Mr. Ford's intentions about seekins
advice from a broad base of knowledgeable people --
a line that his predecessor rejected to the pain of
- all of us.

Yours,

 

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305