02/27/1968
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"The National Science Foundation is entrusted, more than any other single national institution, with the responsibility to expand our reservoir of basic knowledge through research, and to promote excel..."
"I give you this, our country's greatest honor."
"Daniel Fernandez died before he was 22 years old."
"Every increase of one percent in the efficiency of our $22 billion public and private research and development programs is worth $220 million per year."