The United States Senator from Minnesota is famous for his aggressive stance on heated issues of the day. He is less known, at least to non-academicians, for his unpublicized efforts on behalf of the social sciences. Here Senator Humphrey reviews the government's record on social research support and advocates a new charter of the social sciences.
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See for example, Graham, Milton D., "Federal Utilization of Social Science Research, Exploration of the Problems: A Preliminary Paper," The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., August 1954 and "National Support for Behavioral Science ," February 1958.
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