Word: neustadt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political scientist there is no better post than running the new Kennedy institute at Harvard, where politicians and scholars will meet to discuss the theory and exercise of power. Last week it found its 'Iggins. Harvard's President Nathan Pusey gave the job to Columbia Professor Richard Neustadt, 45, who has thought a great deal about intellect and politics...
...book Presidential Power, Neustadt explored "the classic problem of the man on top in any political system: how to be on top in fact as well as name." Ultimately, says Neustadt, "presidential power is the power to persuade." The purpose of intellect in a President is to make others "believe that what he wants of them is what their own appraisal of their responsibilities requires them...
...Deal Social Security official, Neustadt inherited an allegiance to the Democratic Party and a proneness to Washington service. He got into the Government in 1942 as an OPA official, came back to Washington in 1946, after a Navy stint, to become an assistant to the Director of the Budget. "I'm a second-generation bureaucrat," he says without apology. After the Eisenhower sweep, Neustadt went first to Cornell as an assistant professor of public administration, then in 1954 he joined the Columbia Department of Government. A lively lecturer and wit, he had more students than there were seats...
...Although Neustadt's appointment takes effect next month, he will not take up residence in Cambridge until next fall. He plans to devote the Spring term to travel and discussion of the Institute, which he will be responsible for shaping...
...year-old Neustadt has been on the faculty of Columbia since 1954. He is a consultant to President Johnson and to the Bureau of the Budget, the State Department, and the Atomic Energy Commission. Neustadt was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1939 and received the M.A. in 1941 and the Ph.D. in 1951 from Harvard...