Papers, 1950-1989.

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Papers, 1950-1989.

Photocopies of reports, newspaper clippings, articles, and journal reprints, relating primarily to the organization of the government's scientific efforts begun under President Harry S. Truman and to the creation of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Includes a photocopy of Golden's unpublished volume titled, Government Military-Scientific Research: Review for the President of the United States, 1950-1951.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7353966

Library of Congress

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

United States. President's Science Advisory Committee

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This committee operated between 1951 and 1973 in order to provide advice and analysis to the president and the federal government on a wide range of scientific and technological matters. From the description of Records [microform], 1957-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80053197 In 1951 President Harry S. Truman established a Science Advisory Committee as part of the Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM). On November 29, 1957 Preisent Dwight D. Eisenhower tran...

Golden, William T., 1909-2007

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Corporate director and trustee. Assistant to commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1950; special consultant to President Truman to review government science activities, 1950-1951, which led to the creation of President's Science Advisory Committee. From the description of Federal science study file, 1950-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83850026 Scientist. From the description of William T. Golden papers, 1950-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983...