. Bell telephone magazine . eft) to ameeting with Thomas W. Can, director ol the Fellows program(lower left) or to a briefing session on some phase of the space pro-gram (far right). Among bis duties, Dr. Baer has helped interpretthe possibilities ol applying technology to public needs such as low-income housing. kind of exercise to define its mission. Thus far, theidea has run into resistance because many agenciesare used to doing what theyve always done whetherits relevant or not. There has also been a good dealof resistance from Congress. Some Congressmen,particularly senior members who may
. Bell telephone magazine . eft) to ameeting with Thomas W. Can, director ol the Fellows program(lower left) or to a briefing session on some phase of the space pro-gram (far right). Among bis duties, Dr. Baer has helped interpretthe possibilities ol applying technology to public needs such as low-income housing. kind of exercise to define its mission. Thus far, theidea has run into resistance because many agenciesare used to doing what theyve always done whetherits relevant or not. There has also been a good dealof resistance from Congress. Some Congressmen,particularly senior members who may be committeeor subcommittee chairmen, feel it will disrupt theirrelationships with agencies that have been estab-lished through the years. This may well be; but re-arranging government programs along the lines ofnational objectives is something that has to come,and one can only hope it will come sooner ratherthan later. As a member of the Vice Presidents staff, Ive beenin a position to see a good deal of the interplay that. goes into the formulation of national goals. My firstassignment, in fact, was working with the newly or-ganized Council on Marine Resources and Engineer-ing Development, chaired by the Vice President andcomposed of the secretaries of the different depart-ments involved with oceanography. The Councilstask was to merge the many separate and rather dis-parate agency activities into broad national has, I think, achieved a remarkable record in itsfirst year of operation. Along with this emphasis on setting meaningfulgoals, were also seeing more political agreement onthe necessary role of the federal government. Foryears, we debated how deeply government shouldget involved in some of the basic national problemssuch as education, social matters and the like. Wenow pretty much recognize that the problems are sogreat that everyones help — including the federalgovernments — is needed. The big question is whatcan the people in Washington do, working wi
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