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the leadership of a scientific program so that the conceptual limitations
of any research group leader would not interfere with the program. He
wanted to avoid being persuaded that he had the proper knowledge to
make decisions only because he had the power to make them. Most
important, he wanted to return to full-time research.^71
At a December 15, 1959, meeting of laboratory and branch chiefs
“a majority voted in favor of the principle that the combined [basic]
program of the two institutes should be divided...[and] they recommend­
ed unanimously that an associate director for research be appointed
in each institute to work closely with the institute directors and to
shoulder responsibility in the entire intramural area of the clinical and
basic research programs in each institute.”^72
Livingston presented the joint laboratory chiefs and both institute
directors with lists of seven on the one hand and ten on the other
candidates for the position of Associate Director in Charge of Research
within each institute and encouraged them to suggest additional candi­
dates for the positions (see Table 5).

Table 5. Livingston’s Candidates for the Position of Associate Director in
Charge of Research, NINDB and NIMH
NINDB
Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan
Mary A. B. Brazier
John D. Brookhart
Jordi Folch-Pi
John D. French
Clark T. Randt
Theodore C. Ruch

NIMH

Mary A. B. Brazier

John C. Eberhart

Joel Elkes

Jordi Folch-Pi

Donald O. Hebb

Harris Isbell

William Lhamon

Neal E. Miller

Theodore C. Ruch

Frederic C. Worden

Source: Livingston to all NIMH-NINDB Laboratory Chiefs of the Basic Research Program
and the NINDB and NIMH Directors, 21 October 1959, Assembly of Scientists for NIMH
and NINDB (I), M1363, AHAP