ABSTRACT
One of my earliest recollections of science advice to the President was a phone call from the White House in 1954. Sherman Adams was calling on behalf of President Eisenhower to ask if I would accept membership on the National Science Board. I countered by saying that my special fields were philosophy and theology, not science. He responded that the President wanted a philosophical and theological dimension among his advisors on the Board which was then only four years old. I then said that if the scientists on the Board were willing to listen to me, I was sure that I had a lot to learn about science and public policy from them, and indeed I did over the next twelve years.
