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ESTES KEFAUVER, TENN. ALEXANDER WILEY, WIS.
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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

April 17, 1958

Prof. Joshua Lederberg, Chairman
Department of Medical Genetics
School of Medicine

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Professor Lederberg:

Thank you, indeed, for your expert professional
analysis of the implications of the National Scholar-
ship Bills.

I am most interested in your recommendations
and shall be pleased to hold them at hand for my ready
reference as this very important subject comes up.

Because I am not a Member of the Senate Labor
and Public Welfare Committee, I am not, as you can ap-
preciate, in a position to take action on this subject
until my colleagues on that Committee make their report.

The big problem, however, will not be so much on
the Senate side as it will be on the House side, where
the Education and Labor Committee has tended to look
with less favor on an ambitious educational aid program.

I share your deep interest on the other phase
you cited; namely, the need for stron& and vital re-
search facilities through which can pass the cream of
the Nation's scientific crop so as to constantly streng-
then our pool of basic and applied research in all the
areas so vital to man's growth and well-being.

Don't hesitate to pass along your additional
views regarding the research potential in your own field
of medical genetics, or in any other subject which you
feel should have the attention of myself and my col-
leagues,

With best wishes, I am

Sincerely yours

AW/ere Alexander Wiley