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Lyndon Johnson: “Every increase of one percent in the efficiency of our $22 billion public and private research and development programs…”

On the recordApril 5, 1967
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Message to the Congress Transmitting 16th Annual Report of the National Science Foundation.

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