To the Congress of the United States:
I hereby transmit to the Congress the second annual report of the National Science Board, pursuant to the provisions of P.L. 90-407 [82 Stat. 360]. The report was prepared by the 25 distinguished Members of the policy-making body of the National Science Foundation.
The report recounts the state of knowledge in the physical sciences--astronomy, chemistry and physics--as well as how physical science research is carried out in the United States. It also makes a number of recommendations reflecting the importance that the Board ascribes to the Nation's support of the physical sciences. I commend this report to your attention.
RICHARD NIXON
The White House
February 19, 1970
Note: The report is entitled "The Physical sciences: Report of the National Science Board, Submitted to the Congress, 1970" (Government Printing Office, 62 pp.).
Richard Nixon, Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the National Science Board. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/240812