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Table of Contents | Preface | Acknowledgements | Former Members | Exec Secretaries/Officers | Timeline | ![]() |
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A "Political" Director?NSF Director Leland Haworth's term was due to end in May 1969. Seeking a successor, Nixon's Science
In an unprecedented open letter, the Board protested this political litmus test. According to historian Milton Lomask, Nixon met with DuBridge and Handler and "confessed he had been wrong in his handling of the Long appointment." He agreed the Director's job should be nonpolitical. The Board's Executive Committee went to work sounding out other candidates. Handler's feelings were evident in what he told biophysicist William D. McElroy of Johns Hopkins University, when he telephoned McElroy to ask if he would consider the job. Handler said, "the Science Foundation was going to hell, support of science was going to hell, and they had to have somebody at NSF who could do the job." However, as time would tell, the Board's involvement in the selection of a new Director was not a guarantee of good relations.
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