14th November 1944: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill smokes a cigar and listens to Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower speak during World War II. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In his famous 1961 farewell address to the nation, then-President Dwight Eisenhower stated that “[while] holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Curtis Ellis is Policy Director with America First Policies. He served as senior policy advisor on the 2016 Trump-Pence campaign, on the Presidential Transition Team, and as special adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Labor in the International Labor Affairs Bureau.
