MEMO FROM TO:

J. LEDERBERG
GENETICS DEPARTMENT |

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Nr. James Reston TX
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STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

FEB 26 1970

Can you recall having written a column
(besides your remarks on eloquence of
de Gaulle in your "...Sand" book)

on the subject of the importance of
writing vis-a-vis political leadership;
that what is not written and publdashed
will have only transient value? TI think
it may have had to do with JFK, and the
importance of explanation together with
action. So it would have been 0-19 years
ago,

It had impressed me very much at the time,
and undoubtedly influenced me in my own
decision (also heeding other things you

‘have said) about working through journalisti
as well as other lines of education, o
I would very much like to retrieve that ,
text. .

wie

Sincerely,

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Prof. Joshua Lederberg

_ Department of Genetics
School of Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305