Statement by the President Upon Appointing New Members of the Science Advisory Committee.
THIS committee, composed of eminent scientists and engineers, has been of great service to me and to the Nation. It has identified major new opportunities to put science and technology to work for the general welfare and has rendered sound judgments on the Government's major research and development efforts.
Note: The statement was part of a White House release announcing the appointment of the following new members of the President's Science Advisory Committee: Dr. Lewis Branscomb, Boulder, Colo., Chairman of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, National Bureau of Standards; Dr. Marvin L. Goldberger, Princeton, N.J., Higgins Professor, Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University; Dr. Kenneth Pitzer, Houston, Tex., President of Rice University; Dr. George Pake, St. Louis, Mo., Provost and Professor of Physics at Washington University; and Dr. Gordon MacDonald, Los Angeles, Calif, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Statement by the President Upon Appointing New Members of the Science Advisory Committee. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/241962