Menio from To: JOSHUA LEDERBERG Senator A. Ribicoff qa. APR 2 1971 World Models. I very much enjoyed our talk at d inner with the Bazelons the other evening. Phil Handler also arranged a useful meeting with Ed David at the White House Science Adviser's office on the questions of crop innovations;,and I will be in touch with you further as may be useful, On the matter of America;s place in the world, I would certainly encourage you to stress this in your hearings on trade policy; and again I will have some more coherent memoranda for you in good time. Bob Bird has lined me yp for testimony on 4-26 and I look forward to seeing you again at that time. , Sincerely, \ PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG Department of Genetics ' School of Medicine Stanford University Stanford, California 94305