Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgment to the First Edition -- Introductory Remarks to the Second Edition -- Contours of Wisdom: Presidential Science Advice in an Age of Flux -- PART I Science Advisers and the Presidents They Served -- Science and Technology in President Clintons First 100 Days -- Science and Technology in the Bush Administration -- Science Advice to the President: Important and Difficult -- The President and His Scientific Advisers -- The Origin and Uses of a Scientific Presence in the White House -- Science and Technology: Government and Politics -- The President's Need for Science Advice: Past and Future -- Current State of White House Science Advising -- Science Advice-Out Of And Back Into the White House -- Advising Presidents on Science and Technology -- The Science Adviser's Role in the Reagan White House in 1986 -- PART II Other Perspectives -- Science and Technology and Presidential Science and Technology Advice -- Reconciling the Science Advisory Role with Tensions Inherent in the Presidency -- The Pleasures of Advising -- Helping the President Manage the Federal Science and Technology Enterprise -- Presidential Science Advising -- Don't Segregate Science Advice-Integrate It! -- The Life, Death, and Potential Future of PSAC -- Federai Science Policy and Support of Autonomous Universities: A Modest Proposal -- Politics in the Science Advising Process -- Executive Leadership for Science and Technology -- A Historian's View of Advice to the President on Science: Retrospect and Prescription -- Science Advice and the Presidency: An Overview from Roosevelt to Ford -- A Scientist in The White House: A Sociological View -- Organizational Structure and Advisory Effectiveness: The Office of Science and Technology Policy