JUN 1 1969

Physics Department
The George Washington University

Washington 6, D.C.

Professor J. Lederberg
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Dear Professor Lederberg:

I am taking this opportunity to send you a reprint of ay
letter concerning the moon flight controversy as it appeared

in The New York Times.
Thank you very kindly for your interest in this matter.
Yours truly,
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Herbert Jehle

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Dear Herbert-~

I really am quite sympathetic to your aims, but I do not feel that
your negative approach, partmcularly at this date, is veryhelpful. You
may succeed in persuading Congress to pull back, but I doubt that you Will
find this has helped one iota in accomplishing your positive purposes.
the other hand, when positive programs for relieving poverty and disease
have been formulated and adeauately sold to the people and Congress, the
question can then be put what has to be given first priority a/e costs. You
will then find that space technology is not so irrelevant to other needs.

The probable alternative to Apollo is a strictly military space effort
which may be hardly distinguishable in its immediate developmental content,
but might be quite different in its overall tone, access of scientific information
and long-range relationship to human objectives,

I also regret that more strictly scientific criteria have not been stressed
in the space effort, but the whofe prosram as it is evolving is a reaswable come

pronise of many interests, on the whole far better than I would have predicted.
Not for publication, but sincerely, LA
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