Science and technology contribute in significant ways to many of our social needs—maintaining economic growth and productivity, feeding the world's people, improving our health and environment, and preserving our national security.

I am determined to maintain our Nation's leadership role in science and technology.

we have built on the invention of the distinguished Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi and others, a global communications system that allows instant contact not only between heads of state but peoples of all nations.

We must improve the technology for reclaiming and recycling forest products.

This application of computer technology across the board should lead to a much more manageable classification system and greatly enhance the flow of information to the public.

Today, we take the most amazing things almost for granted.

Communication by satellite is a tool--one of the most promising which mankind has had thus far--to attain this end.

They gave us the nuclear bomb--but they also started us on the course of peaceful nuclear power.

The transistor radio, the microwave communication links, television, and atomic energy are based on knowledge which had not even been discovered when you were children.

The new ultraminiature devices which guide our spaceships and are giving us new medical tools are all the products of the last 10 years.

The housewife should not need a scale or a yardstick or a slide rule or computer when she shops.

The protection of freedom where freedom is threatened has more ultimate meaning throughout the world than all the products or technology that we may ever export.

To make this promise a reality, your country is planning a desalting installation larger than any that now exists anywhere.

Before long, you will be able to span this continent--or the Atlantic Ocean--in 2 hours or less.

Will man be the master or the servant of his inventions?

A new communications era has begun.

The commercial satellite service will advance to provide this new and unique telecommunications capability to other areas of the world.

Weather modification is still several steps behind atomic energy and the exploration of space.