Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The second consists of determining how best to utilize this knowledge for the benefit of mankind once it is achieved.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the National Science Foundation's Annual Report on Weather Modification.

02/17/1966

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And when they do, I will be the first one at that table--wherever it is.

The country will need the help of scientists, including a large and strong contingent of physicists, if we are ever to be able to deal effec...

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

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