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Edward Heath, Tory leader of Great Britain's House of Commons, will deliver next year's Godkin Lectures. He has tennely accepted an invitation from the Graduate School of Public Administration to come to Harvard for the three-lectures series sometime next winter...
Established in 1903 in'honor of Edwin Godkin, editor of the Nation, the lectures bring either a scholar or public leader to award each year to discuss the "essential of free government and the duties of the citizens." Lecturers in recent years included Nelson Rockefeller, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver...
...effort goes by the name of creative federalism, a term suggested by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller in his 1962 Godkin Lectures at Harvard and picked up by Lyndon Johnson in his "Great Society" speech at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1964. Far from seeking a stronger role for the Federal Government-as it sometimes has been thought to do-creative federalism not only asks states and cities to do more on their own, but challenges the concept that governmental power is a one-level reservoir from which every cup drawn by Washington means a loss for someone else...
Pious Caveat. Delivering the Godkin Lectures at Harvard, former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Walter...
...second Godkin Lecture, the former chairman of the President's council of Economic Advisers stated that there were many indications that restrictive fiscal policy, through a temporary income tax increase, is necessary...