That was the summer of '57. The fall of '57 Sputnik went up, and then suddenly Congress changed completely. Everybody said we must get into this. And so the whole report was rewritten and published the next year with lots of space in it. If he's a citizen of a country, he wants to offer his services to this government as a responsible citizen.
Scientific advice is very important to government, and politicians realize that.
Politicians recognize that there are certain scientific things they really don't understand. They have to call on scientists. I think in most other fields, such as how people behave, they probably think they understand it. They may or may not, but they think they understand it. Whereas in science, they recognize the things they don't understand, so they do call on scientists, and scientists have an opportunity then to advise the government.