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Despite the changes, Harvard will still be connected with the project. Handlin, Dean Ford, and Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy Institute, will be on a committee to oversee the oral history...
This is a kind of illiteracy the Institute can hope to remedy more easily than the simple absence among politicians of academic study. With his $10 million endowment, Neustadt would have no trouble in bringing to Harvard people whom his young politicians would not normally meet in the course of their political lives...
...other words, this mixture of politics and academics should begin with the loosest possible conception of academics. The men Neustadt brings to Cambridge should not all be members of someone's faculty...
...this would call for a redefinition of the role of the professor in the Institute. Neustadt has spoken of a "core" faculty of government professors, economists, historians perhaps who would study the politicians and be studied by them. A more issueoriented program would demand fuller participation by the University's Faculties--of the scientific departments, the Medical Faculty of Public Health, the Law Faculty...
...Neustadt wants merely to oversee a trade school for politicians, he can run a very successful one. But the Kennedy Institute has the prestige, staff, and the money to do a great deal more. In their strictest senses, politics and academics are isolated professions; at some time Neustadt will have to ask himself whether it was John Kennedy's job to unite the two, or to understand them, and to understand that they are not all of America