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Journal Article
A Nation of Innovators
2025
Overview
On Sep 15, 1972, instead of celebrating the nation's innovators, the White House received the first indictments in the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon's presidency. The prize ceremony was postponed. Then postponed again. With the exception of an inquiry in Science asking \"Whatever Are the Presidential Prizes?\" the award disappeared with little notice. Prize missteps signaled disarray in the government's nascent innovation policy. Just months after initial planning for the Experimental Technology Incentives Program (ETIP), Branscomb left the administration for a job at IBM. In Jan 1973, David resigned as OST head, lamenting that his ideas were not heeded. Rather than replace him, Nixon abolished the entire office. Stever then assumed a dual role as White House science advisor and NSF director, where he continued to reshape the government as an innovation catalyst. DeSimone, for his part, became an innovation czar under Stever, and earned minor notoriety for attempting to convert the US to the metric system. In Oct 1973, a distracted Nixon granted the National Medal of Science after a two-year hiatus with a speech that failed to mention the word innovation. Four months later the president resigned.
