Science Advisor to the President Science Advisor to the President The Science Advisor to the President is an individual charged with providing advisory opinions and analysis on science and technology matters to the President of the United States. The first Science Advisor, Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, served Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1941 to 1951. President Truman created the President's Science Advisory Committee in 1951, establishing the chairman of this committee as the President's Science Advisor. This committee continued under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
Television Information Office survey on public reactions to television following the quiz show scandals in the late 1950s. The TIO published other reports following the Elmo Roper survey, with similar objectives. TIO also created a library, created television program study guides for elementary and secondary schools, and ran expensive ads in popular magazines including the New Yorker and Saturday Review. All of these actions were used to convince political and social leaders that television had the potential to greatly benefit America. Television Information Office The Television Information Office (TIO) was created by the National Association of Broadcasters in the United States in October