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YOUR AGENDA AND NEEDS In the international arena, the nature of the scientific and technical issues requiring your personal attention is changing and their range is expanding. Major weapon system acquisitions and arms control measures are inherently presidential issues because they bear on your fundamental responsibility to protect the national security and because they have a substantial impact on the federal budget.
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Authority and expertise tend to be dispersed among agencies removed from the White House and its coordination. In the next four years, expert advice will be valuable to you in dealing with our allies, adversaries, and industrializing countries on: • terms of trade in technology-based products and services; • rules for restricting technology flows for national security or commercial reasons; • conditions for collaborating on and sharing the results of major science and technology projects; and • means of alleviating or adapting to man-made changes in the global environment -- atmospheric warming and acid deposition attributable mainly to the use of fossil fuels, stratospheric ozone depletion resulting mainly from the use of chlorofluorocarbons, and the decline in biological diversity from a variety of activities.
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With regard to the ongoing AIDS epidemic, the federal government has primary responsibility for developing the scientific knowledge base, a function that is centralized in the health research agencies that are repositories of much of the relevant expertise. But until there are breakthroughs toward a vaccine or effective treatments, the immediate tasks are educating the public, curbing drug abuse, protecting victims' rights, and pay ing mounting health care expenses.
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Nevertheless, you will be held accountable for the adequacy of research, the responsiveness of industry and regulatory agencies in vaccine development, leadership in public education, paying a large share of medical costs, and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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An effective science and technology adviser and his or her staff must work closely with other White House principals and Executive Office units -- the domestic policy and National Security Council staffs, Council of Economic Advisers, and Office of Management and Budget. The science and technology adviser should have an opportunity to comment on decision memoranda originating with or involving the Cabinet departments and agencies and should participate in any deliberations where his or her perspective can illuminate technical and scientific questions associated with a presidential policy decision.
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But your science and technology adviser can help you and the director of White House personnel define the necessary qualifications and identify top-notch candidates whose philosophies are compatible with and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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• International Negotiations. Presidents have often found it useful to rely on their science and technology advisers and support staffs to coordinate policy formulation on important international issues, to assume a lead role in certain sensitive diplomatic initiatives such as the negotiation of groundbreaking bilateral science and technology agreements, and to advise on technical issues that arise in summit negotiations.
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Legislation has not been essential to an effective advisory office, as witness the existence of a highly professional advisory staff in the Eisenhower White House and under Executive Order beginning with the Kennedy Administration and lasting until the second Nixon Administration. Morever, congressionally mandated OSTP functions may sometimes conflict with the President's requirements.
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The important issue is not a particular title or and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. considerations suggest that an appropriately staffed OSTP will be comparable in size to such other White House and Executive Office units as the National Security Council, the Office of Policy Development, and the Council of Economic Advisers.
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-- ad hoc committees established to deal with specific problems and disbanded upon completion of their work; -- a standing advisory committee to the science and technology adviser; and -- a science and technology advisory committee appointed with the advice of the science and technology adviser but reporting directly to the President. President Ford appointed a Presidential Science and Technology Committee.
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