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Is This the End of the Endless Frontier?

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“Our country needs a new consensus on how to support science,” write Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

The last 80 years of American science have been defined by one letter, penned by the president of the United States. In November 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, which had become the largest scientific research program in American history over the course of World War II. Roosevelt asked how their work could “be used in the days of peace ahead for the improvement of the national health, the creation of new enterprises bringing new jobs, and the betterment of the national standard of living.” The…

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