Science Advisor to the President War II by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Vannevar Bush chaired this office through Roosevelt's death in 1945, and continued under Roosevelt's successor Harry S. Truman until 1951. After the war, President Harry S. Truman replaced the OSRD with the Science Advisory Committee in 1951. The office was moved to the White House on November 21, 1957, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to provide advice and recommendation in response to the Space Race started by the USSR's launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1. President Richard M. Nixon eliminated the PSAC in 1973, rather than appointing a replacement for
Animation in the United States in the television era the 1960s, Walt Disney's current animated films ("One Hundred and One Dalmatians", "The Sword in the Stone", the live-action/animated combo "Mary Poppins", and "The Jungle Book") generated hefty revenue for the studio, as did the regular reissues of earlier animated films. "Poppins", in particular, won five Academy Awards (and received with the studio's first Best Picture nomination) and topped the 1964 box office charts while launching the film career of its star, Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar. "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color", now on NBC, became a Sunday night television institution that kept Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy,