Kennedy Family Attends Institute Ceremonies; Lindsay, McNamara Named Center Associates

The relatives, confidants, and advisors of the late President Kennedy gathered in Cambridge yesterday to celebrate the establishment of the "working part" of the Kennedy Library complex -- the Institute of Politics.

On hand to hear about the organization of the Institute and the renaming of the Graduate School of Public Administration (now the John F. Kennedy School of Government) were members of the Institute's new Advisory Committee, including Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, and C. Douglas Dillon '31, former Secretary of the Treasury.

Following a late afternoon meeting, the Advisory Committee joined 80 distinguished guests of the Harvard Corporation for dinner in the Holyoke Center penthouse.

President Pusey and Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 addressed the closed dinner meeting, which was also attended by most of the Kennedy family, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 and the mother of the late President, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy.

Eight Secret Service Men

Eight Secret Service men trailed Jacqueline Kennedy throughout the day. They smuggled her into Littauer Center for the afternoon meeting -- via the front door--while network television crews and news reporters waited patiently at the Center's rear door.

The press had been told that the complete entourage would arrive at the rear, but two members of the Advisory Committee -- Harriman and Mrs. Philip Graham, president of The Washington Post -- diverted their attention while the rest of the party entered by the main door.

Crowds were scanty all afternoon. Only a few curious law students and Faculty members with Littauer offices watched the arrivals from the stairwell of the Center. Guards at both doors demanded identification of all comers, explaining that "the FBI wants us to do this. They're everywhere."

At dinner time, however, about 200 students and Harvard Square workers crowded the Mt. Auburn entrance to Holyoke Center as the black-tie dinner guests arrived for the official opening of the Institute.

The crowd was quiet as Mrs. Kennedy, wearing a long gold satin gown under a black velvet cape, arrived on the arm of President Pusey. She had been preceded by Faculty members associated with the newly-named John F. Kennedy School of Government, friends of the late President, and former Kennedy aides.

A few moments later, the Senators Kennedy drove up to the entrance. Both were rushed from an afternoon political rally in Post Office Square, where they spoke in behalf of Massachusetts Democratic candidates. This was the brothers' first joint political appearance of the 1966 campaign.

While his brother hurried into Holyoke Center, Senator Kennedy of New York paused to shake hands with students lining the entrance. As they pushed around him, Kennedy grinned broadly, shouted "get back to work," and then disappeared into the elevator.

Earlier in the day, Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Institute, made two important announcements about newly-organized programs. At the afternoon meeting, he released to the Advisory Committee the list of the Institute's first "honorary associates." These 11 prominent politicians will come to Cambridge for two or three days this year to meet with groups of undergraduates for informal, off-the-record interchanges.

McNamara Named Associate

The "honorary associates" and the approximate dates of their visits to Cambridge are Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, Nov. 6-7; Gerald Ford (R-Mich.), House Minority Leader, Nov. 16-17; Jerome Cavanaugh, Mayor of Detroit, Dec. 11-13; Lawrence O'Brien, Postmaster General, Jan 8-10; Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Feb. 12-14.

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."Crowds rushed the Senators Kennedy--Edward M. (left) and Robert F. (right)--as they drove up to the Mt. Auburn St. entrance to Holyoke Center.