WEMO FROM TO: Dr. Gordon TX
J. LEDERBERG MacDonald Rc
GENETICS DEPARTMENT Environmefta RO
STANFORD UNIVERSITY quality Council

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

 

The White House
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Dear Gordon-- Les
First, CONGRATULATIONS

to you and to the rest of us!

_ May I suggest 1 task now: to get the
FTC to take a serious interest in
dubious advertising that attempts to ride
the environmental bandwagon. Nothing will
be more injurious than the inevitable
Public cynicism that will develop in
reaction to overstated claims -- like
what you may already have seen for
SOCAL's F-31090 (another detergent,
I believe a pxt poly (amino-butene)),