STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS

September 14, 1977

Dr. Ruth Davis

Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
The Pentagon

Washington, D.C. 20301

Dear Dr. Davis:

Don Levine of the SRI-Washington office called me yesterday to ask
whether I could attend a brief meeting with you on the morning of September 27th.
The agenda was to have been some aspects of defense and university relations.
Mr. Levine also told me that I should be receiving a reply either from Dr. Perry
or yourself to some questions that I had raised in my letter of June 9th to
Dr. Frank Press on the same subject.

I will be in Washington on other business on that day, but it does not
seem likely that I will be able to break away from my previous commitments.
I will try to straighten that out and inform your office by telephone.

In the event that I do not have the opportunity to pursue the matter in
person, I thought the most useful thing I could do is to forward an informal
memorandum from Bill Miller, and to second his suggestion of the desirability
of a rather small conference with representative uhiversity presidents and
some faculty. ‘

I do not know if the meeting on the 27th would have provided an opportunity
to discuss some computer applications that perhaps deserve further attention.
I would be glad to pick that up with you at your convenience and, again if I
cannot see you in person, will try to call you to try to elicit possibly mutual
convenient arrangements.

With many others, I would certainly like to wish you every success ,and offer
whatever personal support I can, for your new responsibilities.

Yours sincerely,
vo

   

     
  

/ Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

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Enclosure

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 * (415) 497-5052