STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
.300 PASTEUR DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Professor Joshua Lederberg

JUN 2 1969

Dear Wine<

Thank you very much, for a most useful pile.

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I find it a little hard to find a clear course
among the political competition of the several
proposals for legislative management of the en-
vironmental problems , and, frankly am as much
worried about the subtleties I just know nothing
about in trying to make sense out of the various
bills (I think of Jackson, Nelson right off hand).
And now there is Nixon's new Council; which may just
be an ineffectual stall. Another reason I've been
hesitahh to speak broadside on the political organi-
zation angle is that (1) my information tends to be
uw week late, and (2) my column has to be mailed a

week before pub]ication, so I feel very uneasy about
being way out of date.

WIVAOL, mo7snlar

Is there no way the various proposals can be given
some common hearimg for decision? *

I am sensitive to the pioneering work that
Senator Muskie has done on making pollution a
matter of national action, and will do all I can 4
to help see that he gets the credit he deeply
deserves for this.,alread@y acclaimed service.

* Is there any kind of staff memo (off the record if
necessary ) summarizing the arguments pro and con the
various approaches. I read some Libr. Congr. report
last year-- it left me more confused than ever.

 

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