https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/e8a861f58dc02a50aaa708cd10419a8d.pdf 48fa94999b97f150cea5a0e2597660ee PDF Text Text Document disclosed undexJhp rtrrgrr fm InfqmpgtioiHftt jffWI v*. I Document divulgue en veil u d^a^ihsif/Pazces^aTinformavonm D E P A R T M E N T OF EXTERNA L AFFAIRS Subject Date M..S....M./?. ^EB...Ex}?.^.. Publication.. NEW YORK TIMES zWhiteHouse Reported to Reject » ABM Opponent as Science Head By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr. Special to The New Y<H* Tlmej xmmmm WASHINGTON, April 16—The appointment of Franklin A. Long as the new director of the National Science Foundation is reported to have been blocked by the White House, largely because of his opposition to the antiballistic missile system. According to sources close to Dr. Long, who is vice president for research and advanced! studies at Cornell University, he was approached about the job six weeks ago by Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, President Nixon's science adviser. • « After several discussions, according to this account, Dr. Long decided to accept. He came to Washington last Fritoward acceleration of the sider it. Dr. Long was ani long Continued From Page 1» Col. 2 sure these, and he said he w< mid arms race." .. day, April 11, under the im- He has not publicly criticized consider it." Dr. DuBridge acknowledj *ed, pression that he vras to meet Mr. Nixon's revision of the Sen- however, that Dr. Long ' had system, known as Safewith the President at 3 o'clock tinel guard. However, the White come to Washington on Frit, lay, that afternoon and that ati an- House was said to feel that his April 11, "because there 'twas nouncement would be made appointment could be con- some thought that we might strued by opponents of the conclude' the negotiate ons shortly thereafter. 'i He is said to have found on Safeguard system as an indica- then." also acknowledged tihat arrival, however, that "politi- tion that the Nixon Administra- theHetwo men then talked, aption was not taking the issue ical considerations" had caused seriously and had somehow arently for the first time, ab rat the White House to reconsider. weakened in its resolve to win the implications of Dr. Lorl g"s Chief among these considera- approval for the system on appointment. tions, it is said, was Dr. Long's Capitol Hill. "He could see, and was I inopposition to President John- Reached by telephone this formed of the critical political son's anti-ballistic missile sys- evening, Dr. DuBridge denied situation the hill,"Dr.DuBrid ge tem, the Sentinel. that Dr. Long had been "of- said. "So by mutual agreema nt Dr. Long criticized the sys- fered" the post. "That is not we terminated our discussions of the post." < tem in the December, 1968, is- true," he said. sue of the Bulletin of Atomic "It is true," he went on, "thai Dr. DuBridge said that i\o Scientists on the ground that a number of people have been one had yet been found for q ie i it would generate "strong pres- asked whether they would con- job. A major part of the Long has a udget of about $500-mil episode is detailed in the April lion, which it spends on reissue of Science magazine, search projects of its own which was mailed to subscrib- choosing. Dr. Long, who has worked ers today. The magazine asserts that vigorously for arms control for nearly a decade,. is a Demothe incident is almost certain crat and was listed as a memto cause an "uproar" in the er of Scientists and Engineers scientific community, which for Humphrey-Muskie in 1968 regards the national foundation But his political affiliation was said to have had no bearjob' as nonpolitical. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBM00221 Title A name given to the resource Transcript from NYT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4/17/1969 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG25-A-3-c, file 27-11-7, "DEFENCE - CONVENTIONAL AND NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS - ANTI - BALLISTIC MISSILES (ABM) = DEFENSE - ARMEMENTS DE TYPE CLASSIQUE ET NUCLEAIRE - ENGINS ANTIMISSILES (ABM)," vol. 10357, part 6, Library and Archives Canada, (LAC). 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