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...Richard E. Neustadt, the Institute's director, has planned it, a regular flow of politicians will visit Cambridge to study, or to write, or simply to meet professors and students. Some of the politicians will be men who have retired from public careers, lost elections, or found themselves between jobs. Others will be young men on the verge of a political career...
...interested in politics. The institute's programs for undergraduates tentatively include a debating "union" similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge; a series of seminars on political topics led by institute visitors; summer jobs in political offices campaigns; and formal and informal appearances by the Institute's visiting politicians. Neustadt emphasizes, however, that all these programs are experimental and may changes once the Institute formally gets underway this fall...
...probably not a coincidence that in the year before the Institute's creation two former Kennedy administration officials -- Adam Yarmolinsky and Daniel Patrick Moynihan--have joined Neustadt, a former White House staffer, on the Harvard Faculty. Both are expected to serve as senior associates of the Institute. And their arrival suggests that other men leaving the government may decide to come to Harvard, where the Institute is certain to keep politics in the atmosphere...
David M. Gordon '65, assistant to Richard E. Neustadt, the director of the Institute, termed the interest "highly encouraging." He said that responses to seminar program were particularly favorable; the majority of those polled indicated that they preferred seminars meeting weekly, would do up to three hours of reading a week, and might be willing to write a paper...
...Neustadt is currently teaching Government 254, "The President and Public Policy," and working on plans for the construction and curriculum of the Kennedy Institute, which will be a part of the Graduate School of Public Administration related to the Kennedy Library center...