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ternational scientific and technological progress. Dr. Eric A. Walker, 

 Chairman of the National Science Board " 'strongly supported the pro- 

 vision.' " '2 Dr. Leland J. Haworth, director of the National Science 

 Foundation, concurred with the amendment and added (Summary) : 



The foundation should not be confined to the natural or physical sciences ; 

 NSF support for the social sciences has been consistently increasing and growing 

 at a rate greater than that of the other social sciences. Government participa- 

 tion in social science research should increase and NSF should play a significant 

 role in that increase.'^ 



Dr. Pendleton Herring, president of the Social Science Research 

 Council, suggested that the base of social science support should be 

 broadened, and added that the social sciences sliould also be repre- 

 sented on PSAC and the National Science Board.^^ He also stated 

 that significant interdisciplinary relationships are developing between 

 the social and other sciences and that significant changes "in spirit" 

 of the NSF would take place ensuring the social sciences more sup- 

 port from that agency."^ 



National Foundation for the Social Sciences 



Objectives 



Senator Fred E. Harris had maintained a keen interest in the 

 problems of foreign area research and the social sciences and the 

 Federal Government. Upon his return to the Senate in 1966, to begin 

 his first full Senate term, Harris suggested that Congress investigate 

 expenditures for foreign area social science research ; that it take an 

 interest in establishing better mechanisms for review of research ; and 

 that the Congress "* * * provide for 'civilizing' all types of contract 

 research being done in foreign countries." '^ 



Although the Congress was considering the NSF amendments bill, 

 and the Departments of State, Defense, and the National Academy of 

 Sciences, and various segments of the social science community were 

 busy with their assessments. Senator Harris decided that the problem 

 of Federal support for social science research might be solved with 

 the creation of a new National Foundation of the Social Sciences. 

 Under Senator Harris' chairmanship, his subcommittee opened hear- 

 ings into the matter of "Federal Support of International Social and 

 Behavioral Research" on June 7, 1966. This was the first of four hear- 

 ings held on the matter throughout 1966 and 1967.^^ 



" Amending the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 • ♦ * H. Kept. No. 34, op. cit,. 

 p. 15. 



^■« The National Science Foundation: Its Present and Future: op. clt., p. 52; Govern- 

 ment and Science : Review of the National Science Foundation, Hearings, pts. 1 and 2, 

 op. clt., pp. 917-1295. 



TO Government and Science Review of the National Science Foundation, hearings, pt. 1, 

 op, cit., pp. 879-880. 



"■^ The National Science Foundation : Its Present and Future, op. cit., p. 51. 



■" Senator Fred R. Harris. Project Slmpatlco. RemarliS on the floor of the Senate. Con- 

 gressional Record (Feb. 7, 1966), pp. 2185-2193, esp. pp. 2186-2187. 



■" U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Government Operations, "Federal Support of 

 International Social Science and Behavioral Research." Hearings before the Subcommittee 

 on Government Research of the • • * June 27, 28 ; July 19 and 20, 1966. 89th Cong., 

 2d sess. (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967), and U.S. Congress, 

 Senate. Committee on Government Operations. National Foundation for Social Sciences. 

 Hearings before the Subcommittee on Government Research of the * * ♦ on S. 836, "A 

 Bill To Provide for the Establishment of the National Foundation for the Social Sciences 

 In Order To Promote Research and Scholarship in Such Sciences." Pt. 1, Februarv 7, 8, 

 and 16, 1967 ; Pt. 2, June 2, 6, 7, 20, and 21, 1967 ; and Pt. 3, June 27, 28 ; July 12 and 13, 

 1967. 90th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967), 809' 

 pages. 



