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Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Institute, will lead a Tuesday morning panel including O'Brien and Bryce Harlowe, a special assistant to President Eisenhower. The panel will discuss and compare White House relations with Congress during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations...
Known as the New England Assembly on Nuclear Proliferation, the group included a number of Harvard professors including Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government, and Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, chaired the Assembly...
...Institute's major concern now is working its Fellows into the faculty study group program. And there is a feeling that more of the time and energy of the Institute's small staff should go into coordinating the study groups. The Faculty study program, says director Richard E. Neustadt, "is probably the most important thing we're doing...
...unlikely that the Institute's independence of the government, and its refusal to give credit course in either the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the Kennedy School, will dispel many of its critics. For many, the idea of the Institute serving, in Neustadt's words, "as the research arm of the Kennedy School," will be repugnant. It will evoke cries that intellectuals are compromising themselves by maintaining contacts with government officials and concerning themselves with the constraints that operate on policy-makers...
...Neustadt tells a story in this vein. Last summer two members of the Economics Department were investigating the problem that would arise when the cost of living rose in 1967 with relation to the maintenance of the now-defunct guideposts. It wasn't really a long-range problem like ones the Institute wants to confront. But the point of the story, which Neustadt tells with great relish, is "that Washington--a couple of Cabinet officials, a White House aide, and a leading government economist--came to us. Harvard didn't have to go running to them." He adds, with...