Grantsmanship and Stewardship: A Public View

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CONFLICTS ARISING out of Federal grants management, subject of this meeting, go to heart of some of thorniest and most portentous problems of public policy. In addition to long-standing, but f ar-fromsettled, issues of Federal-State-local government relations, management of Federal grants involves newly emerging relationship of Federal Government to higher education, a relationship so important and so complex that it has been called the new federalism. It involves relationship of government to science and of government to health, relationship of public and private activities-a perennial issue in American society and an area where we have demonstrated a talent for pragmatic and nondoctrinaire compromise. It involves relationship of administrative process to substantive purpose and relationship of specialized expert to generalist, who is responsible, at least in theory, for both policymaking and general administration. Since total subject is so all encompassing, we have chosen to confine

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