Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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 excellence in our scientific education.

Context

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

04/05/1967

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