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Mr. Miller. I can give that assurance. It will be handled with the greatest of 

 facility we can give it. 



After the President signed the bill on July 18, 1968, Daddario, in an 

 address on the House floor, assessed the significance of the achievement. 

 Once again he underlined the fact that it was "a bill conceived in 

 the Congress, shaped by a cooperative and concerned effort of both 

 legislative and executive branches, and approved overwhelmingly by 

 the House and Senate on a bipartisan basis." He noted that the bill 

 had been enacted and signed with little fanfare: 



It carried none of the emotional or political fervor to which we have become 

 accustomed while dealing with such trying matters as crime, urban redevelopment, 

 welfare, foreign aid, pollution, gun control, and the like. 



Yet Daddario expressed the thought that "without the kind of 

 research and frontier thinking for which the new law provides, it seems 

 unlikely that we will solve the sobering dilemmas — physical or 

 social — which now face us." 

 He added : 



I feel it is important to emphasize that new and fundamental knowledge must be 

 obtained in all fields of science if we are to make any real progress toward a better life 

 for our citizens. In fact, we will require better knowledge and understanding merely to 

 keep our present standard of living from crumbling. 



VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY'S VISIT 



In the course of its history, the Science Committee has dealt 

 closely with Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices, Governors, 

 and even U.S. Senators on occasion. 



Partially in response to the interest generated by the National 

 Academy's report on "Basic Research and National Goals," the 

 seventh meeting of the committee's Panel on Science and Technology 

 dealt with general science policy. The keynote speaker for the first 

 of the two-day sessions on January 25, 1966, was Vice President Hubert 

 H. Humphrey. 



The Vice President noted in his introductory remarks the presence 

 of a special guest, Lord Snow, Joint Parliamentary Secretary of the 

 British Ministry of Technology: 



I want you to know, Mr. Chairman, how proud all of us are, and in particular 

 how proud is President Johnson, of the work which your committee has performed 

 in the past and now performs today and will in the future. The committee has pro- 

 vided a model of congressional oversight. The word "oversight" is one which is used 

 frequently, Lord Snow, in the parlance of American congressional government, and it 

 is a way of indicating not that you just glance over something, but the way in which 

 you take deep perception into what the Government is doing. 



