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Who Should Speak at the People's House?

Author(s) -

Douglas McCormick

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

biotechniques

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617

H-Index - 131

eISSN - 1940-9818

pISSN - 0736-6205

DOI - 10.2144/000113047

Subject(s) - white (mutation) , anecdote , pledge , nomination , administration (probate law) , media studies , art history , history , law , sociology , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene

www.biotechniques.com ı BioTechniques 13 L ong, long ago, my father told me a story about the dinner President John F. Kennedy hosted for 49 American Nobel Prize winners in 1962. “I think,” Kennedy told his guests, “this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” Unlike some of the tales we heard at our parents’ knee, this one seems to square with the historical record.

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