ABSTRACT
In observing the Bicentennial of the Constitution, the people may well recall the mandate of the Constitutional Framers, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". National security was the primary engine which drove Hamilton to advance science and technology and to encourage invention, engineering, transportation, and trade policies. From Washington and Hamilton through Eisenhower and Kennedy, this linkage between science and technology and national security was fundamental. In essence, the position of Assistant to the President for Science and Technology would be parallel to that of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Essential to a better science advisory system is restoration of the President's Science Advisory Committee which the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology could chair. Coincidental with the increasing problems of the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) in the Johnson Administration was the 1966 enactment of the Freedom of Information Act.
