More are Lee White, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Feb. 26-28; George Romney, Governor of Michigan, March 13-15; Bayard Ruston, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, March 27-29; John V. Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, April 23-25; and Carl Sanders, Governor of Georgia, May 7-9.
Neustadt also announced that 14 Harvard and M.I.T. faculty members will undertake research projects at the Institute this year. They will pursue answers to action-oriented questions in the realm of public policy," he said. In answer to a a reporter's question, Neustadt added that these studies "would not necessarily be done for the government, but that is possible."
Among these "faculty associates" are Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government; Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics; George B. Kistkiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; and Albert O. Hirschman, professor of Political Economy.
Most of the afternoon meeting, however, was devoted to a routine review of the workings of the Institute, its undergraduate activities and its fellowship program for "in-and-outers" on leaves from government service for a year's study at Harvard.
Throughout the press conference, Harriman, chairman of the Advisory Committee, emphasized that "this will be a school of public administration different from any other. After all, it will be the only school associated with the name of John F. Kennedy."
President Pusey made almost the same points at last night's dinner, noting that the party in the penthouse was actually three different celebrations. "This is a birthday party for the Kennedy Institute," he said, "a true birth day which has had a long labor behind it."
"And second," he went one, "this occasion is a wedding feast" celebrating the closer union between government and scholarship.
"Third," Pusey concluded, "this is a commemorative dinner in honor of the late President Kennedy. The Institute will enshrine our memory of him for the future."