No More Learning

”32 Despite these misgivings, however, Rockefeller promised
to recommend to Ford the establishment of something close to what the Killian
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administration’s plan to establish the position of a science and technology adviser to the president through a congressional act to bring scientific and technologi- cal expertise to bear on policymaking, including national security, to provide the president with early warning of both problems and opportunities, and, surpris- ingly, given Handler’s earlier protestation, “to assure a permanent voice at the seat of Executive power for a great constituency of our national life—the world of science and technology.