Abstract
The members of John F. Kennedy's presidential administration and American social scientists were inordinately fond of one another. There was an implicit faith among Kennedy liberals that American social scientists had mastered knowledge about the real world and that the knowledge of the past--mere "conventional wisdom" in John Kenneth Galbraith's scornful words--could be replaced by the latest analysis to cure any and all intractable human miseries. For every problem and each endeavor, Kennedy reached toward university professors and research specialists. For their part, those practical thinkers who were called upon were eager to share their work. Like the bespectacled milquetoast who finally gets a chance to prove himself, they scurried off to Washington, gushing praise for the new president.
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