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The Debt to Taft

 Digital Record
Identifier: 101584939X121

Dates

  • Creation: 7 March 1989

Extent

3 pages

Creator

Description

As General Counsel of the Department of Heath, Education, and Welfare in 1976, William Howard Taft IV drafted an opinion that allowed NIH director Donald Fredrickson to promulgate the guidelines on recombinant DNA research without issuing, at the same time, an Environmental Impact Statement. The official Environmental Impact Statement was released in October 1977.

Language of Materials

English

Original Profiles System Identifier

FFBBHW

Physical Description

Physical Condition - Good

Creator

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections Collecting Area

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