Harry Truman actually said...

No one can successfully dispute the importance of maintaining and increasing in this country the vitality of the basic research upon which all technological development-and therefore our economic progress and national security--is dependent.

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the First Annual Report of the National Science Foundation.

01/14/1952

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