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Between the two parties, Richard Neustadt sits like a chief justice, and he seems well suited to the role. He chain smokes cigarettes or a belching pipe, and his words come out like an oracle's from behind a maze of smoke. But the oracle is indecisive at the moment. "You understand, I don't commit myself to anything for more than five minutes," he explains. "We're still gathering ideas...
...Neustadt will have to bring together the purely political and the purely academic approaches to the Institute, and he is certain of how he will begin. "You have to build from the academic side out," he said last week. "I'm not against un-academic work, you understand. But if we don't persuade the scholars in the Boston area to create an academic core, we won't have a sufficiently solid base in this community...
...scholars, Neustadt hopes to pour a stream of Fellows and visiting residents. He feels that the Institute ought to have some resident "junior fellows"--young men from journalism or from private life, not career government servants. Then there should be young men who have worked in politics and are likely to embark on elective careers--"the Bill Moyerses who don't happen to be counsel to the President," as Neustadt...
...community's sake." Yale's Chubb Fellowship program, which brings politicians to New Haven for a week, might be one model. Then an older man putting together his memoirs might be brought to Cambridge "to get a Bundy-Stimpson volume by finding a Bundy to go with a Stimpson." Neustadt feels this could be done "twice a generation...
...Neustadt knows the workings of colleges and of politics from firsthand. His Columbia courses were among the most popular in the college; he also has a reputation as an outgoing, friendly teacher who enjoys inviting undergraduates to his house for dinner and talk. His only book, Presidential Power, established his scholarly reputation firmly. James Reston called it "the nearest thing we have in contemporary America to Machiavelli's The Prince," and John Kennedy is supposed to have been influenced by it. In Washington he helped organize the White House staff for John Kennedy and served as a Presidential adviser...