Science advising and the founders: John Quincy Adams


Phot of ex-president John Quincy Adams

Photograph of ex-President John Quincy Adams; found at LawBuzz

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Science policy has been critical to our nation’s defense and economic health and development from the founding. Historian Hunter Dupree presented 90 minutes of discussion on John Quincy Adams’ role as advisor in science to the founders, in 1989.

You can listen to the entire remarkable story at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs website, or download it for your iPod/MP3 player.

 

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