ABSTRACT
Experimentation, innovation, and invention are touchstones of the American experience. George Washington argued in his farewell address that the country deserved a "full and fair experiment."! Abraham Lincoln once said that America had been felt "to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one."2 To confront the Great Depression of the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt drew on what he termed the need for "bold, persistent experimentation" as a basis for adopting the policies and programs of the New Deal.3
