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Scholars personally involved in the Institute will have one questionable advantage: they will be able to tap a mine of source material that would otherwise not be available in Cambridge. Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government and the Institute's director, uses the example of Lawrence O'Brien, who has been responsible for executive-congressional relations under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Nothing on the subject has been written down, but the changes have been vast; only O'Brien can explain them. To bring men like him to the Institute would make it an attractive place for scholars, Neustadt argues...
Garnering facts from worn-out administrators would not, of course, be the only facet of the Institute's program, as Neustadt has sketched it. A core of scholars from Boston's universities would be brought to the Institute to meet with resident and visiting "fellows." There would, presumably, be seminar discussions of political issues, books written by senior public officials, and sets of memoirs produced by collaboration between an experienced politician and a younger...
...this might persuade college government departments that there is something to be gained from an emphasis on practical political problems as well as theory, from studying the electoral process as well as the governmental one (Neustadt wants to study both: "Elections aren't all of politics by any means," he says. "What you do after you're elected is what counts...
...offer them their own ideas. But the program is not designed with the idea of enticing students to go into politics, since any such plan would be merely a drop in the bucket. Contact with residents and visitors would strengthen the political aspirations of those who aspire already. But Neustadt might wonder whether any of the programs he now has in mind would have induced John F. Kenedy '40, varsity swimmer and club man, to come over to the Institute...
...scholars may have new fields and new sources opened to them, what about the politicians? The Institute will be in Cambridge, not Washington, and Neustadt admits that no practicing politician will be willing to spend any length of time away from...