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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 20, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
UPON PRESENTATION OF THE
CHARLES STARK DRAPER PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING
The State Department
Washington, D.C.
8:50 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you, Jack. I got
worried there when Jack was saying when we want somebody that is well
known to present the prize, I was thinking Barbara's not here.
(Laughter.) But, Jack, thank you for those very kind remarks.
To our honorees, Kilby and Noyce; and to Ambassador
Dubinin, our Soviet Ambassador here who's doing such a good job for
his country; and Dr. White; Dr. Charyk; and my old friend, Dr.
Seamans; also another old friend, Steve Bechtel; Mr. Morrow; and the
Undersecretary Selin; and Don Atwood here from the Defense
Department. And members and Guests of the National Academy of
Engineering.
I'm reminded of the famous story of the guy that called
the insurance company after it closed one evening. A voice answered
and he said, "sir, I'd like to talk to you about converting my 20 pay
life into the cash value immediately. And further, I've heard more
about your key man insurance that insures the very key people, and
we'd like a little more information on that. And lastly, we have
this family -- I have six kids and we want a family health plan."
The voice on the other end said, "Look," he said, "I'm the janitor
around here just cleaning up, and after I said hello that's all I
know at all about insurance."
I feel the same way about engineering here tonight --
(laughter) -- surrounded by all this brain power. It's overwhelming.
But I am pleased to be here. I deem it a very great pleasure to help
honor and celebrate National Engineers Week. And, of course, it is
an honor to salute the first two recipients of this, engineerings
highest international award, the Charles Stark Draper Prize.
Let me begin with a story that will show you my
understanding of engineering, that I see it. It concerns three men
that were scheduled to be executed on the same day of the French
Revolution. One was a lawyer, another a politician, the third an
engineer. First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guillotine
and the blade went two-thirds of the way down the track and then
stopped. The man was set free. Next, the politican. When the
guillotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. Finally,
came the third man, the engineer, and he focused on the matter at
hand. "I think that guillotine has a problem," he told the
executioner, "but don't worry I think I have the solution."
(Laughter.)
I say that with respect -- (laughter) -- but as you see,
engineers just can't help themselves -- whatever the cost --
(laughter) -- they keep aiming for perfection. And they' helped
make our century a time of extraordinary exploration, opening doors
into an age where mankind not only moved into the future, but
reinvented it.
MORE
- 2 -
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. And their
landmark work, the microchip, an invention which has already taken
its place among the greatest of all time. Not to date myself, but
when I was growing up, PACMAN was a hiker, not a video game. The
microchip came along and changed all of that and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room
shrunk down to the size that fits on your lap -- the microchip made
all that possible. Or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of a wristwatch. Think, finally, of our
planet, and how the microchip has stirred the new breeze of
democracy.
Maybe it's a good day to salute that because today the
President of Czechoslavakia Vaclav Havel came over to the Oval Office
and then was our guest at the White House for lunch. And what a
stirring moment -- I'll just divert for one second -- I took him up
to the Lincoln bedroom, which is not normally the thing when you have
these official visits. But I wanted him to see the room in which
Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. And I
think I detected tears in his eyes, this playwright who not so many
month ago was in jail and here he is the President of a fine, new,
burgeoning democratic country. It was a very moving experience.
As I talked with him, I thought of how images of the past
year have linked the peoples of Prague and Warsaw and Budapest and
Berlin. Images of bravery and defiance -- of humanity's quest for
freedom. And it was the microchip which carried them from one nation
to another, becoming an instrument of liberty, the symbol in this
information age. Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now it is unimaginable to believe we could ever live
without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to
de-industrialize, but reindustrialize. To paraphrase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. Yet remember,
too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide that world
with further breakthroughs, for engineering is always a beginning,
never a consummation.
I know that the National Academy of Engineering shares
this belief. So it has studied how America's engineering talent
enhances our competitiveness, and is exploring new ways to protect
the globe from environmental abuse. You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
equation -- policy equation.
Our administration agrees, and so, supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We've asked for a record high $71 billion for R&D in our budget for
Fiscal 1991. And to short-circuit the prediction that America will
run short of engineers, we've introduced a National Science Scholars
Initiative to give kids a new incentive to excel in science, math,
and engineering. And I have announced an ambitious goal, one of our
national goals reached after great consultation with the governors --
but one, a goal that we can achieve -- that U.S. students will be
number one by the year 2000.
You can tell -- I hope you can tell from looking around,
that I have great respect for people who have an understanding of
science. Jim Watkins is a member of our Cabinet, Secretary of
Energy; I'm pleased to see Dr. Bromley here; and Secretary Rice; and,
of course, my own Chief of Staff John Sununu, such a man -- engineer.
Yet, ultimately, I am convinced -- not that we duck our
responsibility in the federal government -- but ultimately, I am
convinced that it is the private sector that not only has shaped
American opportunity, but will continue to bring opportunity to the
new millennium.
Look at -- Jack, I don't want to embarrass you -- but
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look at GE, spending $1.2 million a year on minority science
scholarships. And a $20 million commitment to involve more
inner-city kids in engineering. or Mobil -- launching great programs
-- grant programs to help students enhance America's technological
ability. I know that I'm going to, just through omission, risk
embarrassing others because so many in this room are responsible for
programs of this nature.
These efforts, both private and public, will sustain the
computer revolution, for they rely on the qualities of American drive
and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your Academy
says, "to the advancement of engineering and the well-being of all
humanity." And that are central to the man for whom this evening's
prize is named.
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future, and yet at the same
time a practical man. I'm reminded of a writer who was asked what he
would take if his home were on fire and he could remove only one
thing. "I would take the fire,' he replied. (Laughter.) Dr. Draper
knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius
of engineering, which explains in turn the greatness of Dr. Draper.
He said, "Only men who are free create the inventions and
intellectual works which make life worthwhile." Working in freedom,
Charles Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to
inspire -- to make history move his way.
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history and made each American proud. So let me now present to Jack
Kilby and Bob Noyce engineering's highest award -- the Charles Stark
Draper Prize. And say thank them, thanks to both of you for your
inspirational leadership.
Thank you all, and God bless the United States of
America.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
8:54 P.M. EST
ENGINEERING AWARDS / TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT / 8:45 P.M.
MR. WELCH. MR. KILBY AND DR. NOYCE. DR. WHITE,
DR. CHARYK [CHAIR-IK], DR. SEAMANS, MR. BECHTEL, MR.
MORROW. UNDERSECRETARY SELIN, AMBASSADOR DUBININ.
MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF
ENGINEERING. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THANK YOU, JACK,
FOR THAT INTRODUCTION, AND FOR YOUR WARM RECEPTION.
- 2 -
((You KNOW, AS A BOY I USED To DREAM OF BEING AN
ENGINEER. IN FACT, WHEN ONE OF MY GRANDKIDS HEARD I
WAS ADDRESSING AN AUDIENCE OF MY HEROES, HE SAID,
"COULD YOU BRING BACK ONE OF THOSE NEAT STRIPED HATS
THEY WEAR?")) // WELL, TONIGHT LET THERE BE NO
CONFUSION.
- 3 -
IT IS INDEED A PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU DURING
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK. AND TO SALUTE THE FIRST TWO
RECIPIENTS OF ENGINEERING'S HIGHEST INTERNATIONAL
AWARD, THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER PRIZE.
((LET ME BEGIN WITH A STORY WHICH I THINK CAPTURES
THE SPIRIT OF THIS EVENING. IT CONCERNS THREE MEN
SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED ON THE SAME DAY OF THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION. ONE WAS A LAWYER, ANOTHER A POLITICIAN,
THE THIRD AN ENGINEER.
- 4 -
((FIRST, CAME THE LAWYER. HE PUT HIS HEAD IN THE
GUILOTINE -- AND THE BLADE WENT TWO-THIRDS OF THE WAY
DOWN THE TRACK, THEN STOPPED. THE MAN WAS SET FREE.
// NEXT, CAME THE POLITICIAN. WHEN THE GUILOTINE
STOPPED SHORT OF HIS HEAD, HE, Too, WAS SPARED. //
FINALLY, CAME THE THIRD MAN -- AND TYPICALLY, THE
ENGINEER FOCUSED ON THE PROBLEM, NOT HIMSELF. "THAT
GUILOTINE," HE TOLD THE FOREMAN, "I THINK I HAVE THE
ANSWER.")) //
- 5 -
As YOU CAN SEE, ENGINEERS JUST CAN'T HELP
THEMSELVES -- WHATEVER THE COST, THEY KEEP AIMING FOR
PERFECTION. AND THEY HAVE HELPED MAKE OUR CENTURY A
TIME OF EXTRAORDINARY EXPLORATION. OPENING DOORS INTO
AN AGE WHERE MANKIND NOT ONLY MOVED INTO THE FUTURE --
BUT RE-INVENTED IT.
TONIGHT, WE HONOR JACK KILBY AND BoB NOYCE. //
AND THEIR LANDMARK WORK -- THE MICROCHIP -- AN
INVENTION WHICH HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS PLACE AMONG THE
GREATEST OF ALL TIME. //
-6 -
NOT TO DATE MYSELF, BUT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, PAC-MAN
WAS A HIKER, NOT A VIDEO GAME. // THE MICROCHIP HAS
CHANGED ALL THAT -- AND HELPED AMERICA CHANGE THE
WORLD.
THINK, FOR EXAMPLE, OF A COMPUTER THE SIZE OF A
ROOM -- SHRUNK DOWN TO A SIZE THAT FITS ON YOUR LAP.
THE MICROCHIP MADE IT POSSIBLE. OR A CALCULATOR
SLASHED FROM THE SIZE OF A REFRIGERATOR TO THE SIZE OF
THIS WATCH. [HOLD UP ARM WITH WATCH]
- 7 -
THINK, FINALLY, OF OUR PLANET. AND HOW THE
MICROCHIP HAS STIRRED THE NEW BREEZE OF DEMOCRACY. //
TODAY, THE PRESIDENT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, VACLAV HAVEL,
VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE. AND AS WE TALKED, I THOUGHT
OF HOW IMAGES OF THE PAST YEAR HAVE LINKED THE PEOPLES
OF PRAGUE AND WARSAW, BUDAPEST AND BERLIN. IMAGES OF
BRAVERY AND DEFIANCE -- OF HUMANITY'S QUEST FOR
FREEDOM.
- 8 -
AND IT WAS THE MICROCHIP WHICH CARRIED THEM FROM ONE
NATION TO ANOTHER -- BECOMING AN INSTRUMENT OF LIBERTY
AND THE SYMBOL OF THE INFORMATION AGE. // INTEGRATED
CIRCUITS HAVE ENABLED US TO DO THE UNIMAGINABLE. Now,
IT IS UNIMAGINABLE TO BELIEVE WE COULD EVER LIVE
WITHOUT THEM.
ALREADY, THE MICROCHIP HAS HELPED AMERICA NOT TO
DE-INDUSTRIALIZE -- BUT RE-INDUSTRIALIZE. To PARAPHASE
CHURCHILL, NEVER HAS SOMETHING so SMALL DONE so MUCH
FOR SO MANY. //
- 9 -
YET REMEMBER, Too, THAT IF WE ARE TO LEAD THE WORLD, WE
MUST PROVIDE THAT WORLD WITH FURTHER BREAKTHROUGHS.
FOR ENGINEERING IS "ALWAYS A BEGINNING, NEVER A
CONSUMMATION." //
I KNOW THAT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
SHARES THIS BELIEF. So IT HAS STUDIED HOW AMERICA'S
ENGINEERING TALENT ENHANCES OUR COMPETITIVENESS. AND
IS EXPLORING NEW WAYS TO PROTECT THE GLOBE FROM
ENVIRONMENTAL ABUSE. //
- 10 -
You REALIZE THAT TRULY INFORMED DECISIONS ON ISSUES
LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE REQUIRE US TO BETTER INTEGRATE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING INTO THE PUBLIC
POLICY EQUATION. //
OUR ADMINISTRATION AGREES -- AND so SUPPORTS
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN ALL AREAS OF SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING. WE HAVE ASKED FOR A
RECORD HIGH 71 BILLION DOLLARS FOR R&D IN OUR BUDGET
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991. //
- 11 -
AND TO SHORT-CIRCUIT THE PREDICTION THAT AMERICA WILL
RUN SHORT OF ENGINEERS, WE HAVE INTRODUCED A NATIONAL
SCIENCE SCHOLARS INITIATIVE TO GIVE KIDS A NEW
INCENTIVE TO EXCEL IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND
ENGINEERING.
AND I HAVE ANNOUNCED AN AMBITIOUS GOAL -- BUT ONE WE
CAN ACHIEVE -- THAT U.S. STUDENTS WILL BE NUMBER ONE BY
THE YEAR 2000. //
- 12 -
You CAN TELL THAT I RESPECT PEOPLE WHO HAVE AN
UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE. MY CHIEF OF STAFF, JOHN
SUNUNU, IS SUCH A MAN. As ARE ADMIRAL JIM WATKINS, OUR
ENERGY SECRETARY, AND DR. ALLAN BROMLEY, MY SCIENCE
ADVISOR. YET, ULTIMATELY, IT IS THE PRIVATE SECTOR
THAT HAS SHAPED AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY -- AND WILL
CONTINUE TO BRING OPPORTUNITY TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
// Look AT GENERAL ELECTRIC, WHICH IS SPENDING $1.2
MILLION A YEAR ON MINORITY SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS.
- 13 -
AND A $20 MILLION COMMITMENT TO INVOLVE MORE INNER-CITY
KIDS IN ENGINEERING. // OR MOBIL -- LAUNCHING GRANT
PROGRAMS TO HELP STUDENTS ENHANCE AMERICA'S
TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY.
THESE EFFORTS -- BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC -- WILL
SUSTAIN THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION. FOR THEY RELY ON THE
QUALITIES OF AMERICAN DRIVE AND DETERMINATION.
- 14 -
QUALITIES THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE, AS YOUR ACADEMY SAYS,
"To THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENGINEERING
...
AND THE WELL-
BEING OF ALL HUMANITY." AND THAT ARE CENTRAL TO THE
MAN FOR WHOM THIS EVENING'S PRIZE IS NAMED. //
CHARLES DRAPER WAS, FIRST, AN IDEALIST PUSHING BACK
THE BOUNDARIES OF MANKIND'S TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE. YET
AT THE SAME TIME, A PRACTICAL MAN. ((I'M REMINDED OF A
WRITER WHO WAS ASKED WHAT HE WOULD TAKE IF HIS HOME
WERE ON FIRE AND HE COULD REMOVE ONLY ONE THING. //
- 15 -
"I WOULD TAKE THE FIRE," HE REPLIED.)) DR. DRAPER KNEW
THAT YANKEE INGENUITY REVOLVES AROUND WHAT WORKS.
FINALLY, HE WAS INDOMITABLE -- A FIGHTER WHO LOOKED
TO HIMSELF FOR INSPIRATION. ALBERT EINSTEIN ONCE SPOKE
OF THIS GENIUS OF ENGINEERING -- WHICH EXPLAINS, IN
TURN, THE GREATNESS OF DR. DRAPER. HE SAID:
"EVERYTHING THAT IS REALLY GREAT AND INSPIRING IS
CREATED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO LABOR IN FREEDOM." LABORING
IN FREEDOM, CHARLES DRAPER WELL USED THAT FREEDOM.
- 16 -
USED IT TO CREATE AND TO INSPIRE -- AND TO MAKE HISTORY
MOVE HIS WAY. //
THIS EVENING, WE HONOR TWO MEN WHO THEMSELVES HAVE
MADE HISTORY -- AND MADE EACH AMERICAN PROUD. So LET
ME NOW PRESENT TO JACK KILBY AND BoB NOYCE
ENGINEERING'S HIGHEST AWARD -- THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER
PRIZE. AND SAY: THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOD
BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 14, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
POTUS 2/16/90 changes
FROM:
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
REMARKS FOR DRAPER ENGINEER AWARD
I.
SUMMARY
On Tuesday, February 20, at 8:45 p.m., you will address
about 200 people at the first Charles Draper Prize ceremony. The
two distinguished engineers, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, who
independently co-invented the microchip will be honored with the
Draper Prize. Dr. Bob White, President of The National Academy;
Dr. Joseph Charyk, Chairman of the Draper Laboratory; Dr. Robert
Seamans, Chairman of the Draper Prize Committee; and Mr. Jack
Welch, Chairman of the National Academy and CEO of General
Electric will each give brief introductory remarks. Also
attending will be Mr. Stephen Bechtel, Honorary Chairman of
National Engineering Week; Mr. Richard Morrow, Chairman of Amoco;
Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin; and the State Department host,
Undersecretary Ivan Selin.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (8 minutes, speechcards) praise Jack
Kilby and Robert Noyce for their remarkable invention. The
creation of the microchip has changed the world and nurtured the
information age, making our global village even smaller.
20 9:00 FEBIL 06
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
February 14, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
8:45 P.M.
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Dr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Mr. Bechtel, Mr. Morrow. Undersecretary
Selin, Ambassador Dubinin. Members and Guests of the National
Academy of Engineering. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Jack,
for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) // Well, tonight let
there be no confusion.
It is indeed a pleasure to be with you during National
Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients of
engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way down the track, then
stopped. The man was set free. // Next, came the politician.
2
When the guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was
spared. // Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the
engineer focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine,"
he told the foreman, "I think I have the answer.")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. // And their
landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention which has already
taken its place among the greatest of all time. // Not to date
myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a
video game. // The microchip has changed all that -- and helped
America change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this watch. [HOLD UP ARM WITH WATCH]
Think, finally, of our planet. And how the microchip has
stirred the new breeze of democracy. // Today, the President of
Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, visited the White House. And as we
talked, I thought of how images of the past year have linked the
peoples of Prague and Warsaw, Budapest and Berlin. Images of
bravery and defiance -- of humanity's quest for freedom. And it
was the microchip which carried them from one Nation to another
3
-- becoming an instrument of liberty and the symbol of the
Information Age. // Integrated circuits have enabled us to do
the unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could
ever live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
I know that the National Academy of Engineering shares this
belief. So it has studied how America's engineering talent
enhances our competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to
protect the globe from environmental abuse. // You realize that
truly informed decisions on issues like climate change require us
to better integrate science, technology, and engineering into the
public policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
introduced a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a
new incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
And I have announced an ambitious goal -- but one we can achieve
-- that U.S. students will be Number One by the year 2000. //
4
You can tell that I respect people who have an understanding
of science. My Chief of Staff, John Sununu, is such a man. As
are Admiral Jim Watkins, our Energy Secretary, and Dr. Allan
Bromley, my Science Advisor. Yet, ultimately, it is the private
sector that has shaped American opportunity -- and will continue
to bring opportunity to the New Millennium. // Look at General
Electric, which is spending $1.2 million a year on minority
science scholarships. And a $20 million commitment to involve
more inner-city kids in engineering. // or Mobil -- launching
grant programs to help high-school students enhance America's
technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. He knew no government planner decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless.
And what might have
5
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. / /
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Prize. And say: Thank you, God bless you,
and God bless the United States of America.
#
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Document No. 113193
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
02/16/90
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DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: DRAPER ENGINEER AWARD
(02/14 5:00 p.m. draft)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 14, 1990
1990 FEB 14 PM 6: 05
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
CURT SMITH
is
SUBJECT:
REMARKS FOR DRAPER ENGINEER AWARD
I.
SUMMARY
On Tuesday, February 20, at 8:45 p.m., you will address
about 200 people at the first Charles Draper Prize ceremony. The
two distinguished engineers, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, who
independently co-invented the microchip will be honored with the
Draper Prize. Dr. Bob White, President of The National Academy;
Dr. Joseph Charyk, Chairman of the Draper Laboratory; Dr. Robert
Seamans, Chairman of the Draper Prize Committee; and Mr. Jack
Welch, Chairman of the National Academy and CEO of General
Electric will each give brief introductory remarks. Also
attending will be Mr. Stephen Bechtel, Honorary Chairman of
National Engineering Week; Mr. Richard Morrow, Chairman of Amoco;
Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin; and the State Department host,
Undersecretary Ivan Selin.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (8 minutes, speechcards) praise Jack
Kilby and Robert Noyce for their remarkable invention. The
creation of the microchip has changed the world and nurtured the
information age, making our global village even smaller.
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
February 14, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
8:45 P.M.
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Dr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Mr. Bechtel, Mr. Morrow. Undersecretary
Selin, Ambassador Dubinin. Members and Guests of the National
Academy of Engineering. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Jack,
for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) // Well, tonight let
there be no confusion.
It is indeed a pleasure to be with you during National
Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients of
engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
((Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way down the track, then
stopped. The man was set free. // Next, came the politician.
2
When the guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was
spared. // Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the
engineer focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine,"
he told the foreman, "I think I have the answer.") //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. // And their
landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention which has already
taken its place among the greatest of all time. // Not to date
myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a
video game. // The microchip has changed all that -- and helped
America change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this watch. [HOLD UP ARM WITH WATCH]
Think, finally, of our planet. And how the microchip has
stirred the new breeze of democracy. 11 Today, the President of
Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, visited the White House. And as we
talked, I thought of how images of the past year have linked the
peoples of Prague and Warsaw, Budapest and Berlin. Images of
bravery and defiance -- of humanity's quest for freedom. And it
was the microchip which carried them from one Nation to another
3
-- becoming an instrument of liberty and the symbol of the
Information Age. // Integrated circuits have enabled us to do
the unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could
ever live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
I know that the National Academy of Engineering shares this
belief. So it has studied how America's engineering talent
enhances our competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to
protect the globe from environmental abuse. // You realize that
truly informed decisions on issues like climate change require us
to better integrate science, technology, and engineering into the
public policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
introduced a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a
new incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
And I have announced an ambitious goal -- but one we can achieve
-- that U.S. students will be Number One by the year 2000. //
4
You can tell that I respect people who have an understanding
of science. My Chief of Staff, John Sununu, is such a man. As
are Admiral Jim Watkins, our Energy Secretary, and Dr. Allan
Bromley, my Science Advisor. Yet, ultimately, it is the private
sector that has shaped American opportunity -- and will continue
to bring opportunity to the New Millennium. // Look at General
Electric, which is spending $1.2 million a year on minority
science scholarships. And a $20 million commitment to involve
more inner-city kids in engineering. // or Mobil -- launching
grant programs to help high-school students enhance America's
technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) ) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. He knew no government planner decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
5
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Prize. And say: Thank you, God bless you,
and God bless the United States of America.
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Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and MF. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
Mr.
Mr. Morrow.
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) // But tonight littere by
no confision
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
down the track
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Bob Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip granst -- an invention perhaps no
which has already
taken ts place among the histonic inventions of mashind all time
less crucial than the discovery of fire // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
introduced
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Porter
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
insert
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) ) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
Bob
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
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#
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DATE:
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SUBJECT:
(02/12 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
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VICE PRESIDENT
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SUNUNU
NEWMAN
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PINKERTON
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BROMLEY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
HAGIN
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Winston by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 02/13, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
OK S.R
Lt : 6v 183306
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
((First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. Or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // Or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
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2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
((First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room. --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // Or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied. )) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
#
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#
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WASHINGTON
February 13, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
COMMUNICATIONS
FROM:
JAY S. BYBEE jst
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Engineering Awards
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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this matter.
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VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 02/13, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE: See comments -- Also may want to add
more re: Mayce & Kilby
Grady X4844
E0 :pd
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine,' " he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ) ) / /
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Bob
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
Grody
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their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
We have increased the government's investment in science, math ad engineery education across the
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
hard
26%
a
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
increase
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
to over
libilion
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
in FY
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
1991.
engineering. // Or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
Grady
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high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Bob, Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
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Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
# # # #
Document No. 113193
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
02/12/90
4:00 p.m. 02/13/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(02/12 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
R
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
1
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss -Pm122
Winston Thanks. by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 02/13, with a copy to my office.
RESPONSE:
Excellea +
DAB
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine, " he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied. )) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 13, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Engineering Awards
The speech is well written and tailored to this audience.
We have one suggestion which we believe will strengthen the
remarks and resonate with this group. In the second paragraph of
the third page, second sentence, we recommend replacing the word
"begun" with the word "introduced". In addition, we suggest
inserting the following passage at the end of the second
paragraph:
You may know that I have been working with the Nation's
Governors on setting -- for the first time -- education
goals for America. And that among these is a goal for U.S.
students to be the best in the world in mathematics and
ok
science achievement by the year 2000. This is an ambitious
goal. And it won't be easy. But with role models such as
tonight's honorees, America will number one.
If you have any questions or we can help in any other way,
please let me know.
CC: James W. Cicconi
SO Id EI 833 06
Document No. 113193
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
02/12/90
4:00 p.m. 02/13/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(02/12 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
P
ROGERS
CICCONI
>
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 02/13, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
down the track
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. Or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
INTRODUCED
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Math and
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
Science
goal.
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // Or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied. )) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 13, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
AUSTEN FURSE A.F.
90 13 P4: 50
SUBJECT:
Engineering Awards Draft
This event is an opportunity to go beyond the
conventional, expected, and proper "attaboy" remarks in
order to speak to wider issues. The technique of using an
essentially pro forma event to leverage a wider, deeper
message has proven very effective.
One example: the President's Wizner Park speech in
Houston, went beyond what would have been adequate -- a
pat on the back for a worthy neighborhood group -- in
order to make substantive points about his policies and
their philosophical underpinnings (e.g., crime as evil,
the necessity of just punishment, and the importance of
cultivating character). That speech received a lot of
attention in part because it built a visionary
superstructure on top of its "attaboy" frame.
The current draft could stand improvement even as an
"attaboy" speech. As it now stands, aside from the intro.
and conclusion, Kilby and Noyce are mentioned only once
(at pg. 2, para. 3, line 1), and the significance of their
contributions are lightly touched upon in the following
two grafs. The stupendous significance of their work
cries out for at least doing better justice to the facts
-- that is the minimum requirement of the "attaboy"
aspect. Much space, a full one-quarter of the speech, is
given to praise of the Draper award's namesake. Another
one-quarter is spent on jokes. This space could be used
to speak both about the award winners and a larger theme.
Their invention truly is a milestone in human history,
as numerous books and articles will attest. Attached is a
relevant excerpt from one such book by George Gilder.
Consider, for example, (and here is the visionary
superstructure to build around the "attaboy" frame) that
these two men are literally partly responsible for the
liberation of Eastern Europe.
(more)
2-2-2
The microchip symbolizes the greater freedom of
individual expression worldwide. Kilby and Noyce's
invention brought the power of the computer down to the
individual level where it could not be touched by the
central authorities: PC's, fax machines, portable xerox
machines, VCR's, etc.
Therefore, the overarching theme of the speech, going
beyond the necessary praise of the award winners, could be
to link this enormous technological achievement with the
New Breeze (not to mention increased American
competitiveness, the creation of jobs, and the assurance
of military superiority vis a vis the USSR). It is
particularly relevant given the upcoming visit of Havel
(and to a lesser extent Mandela).
Below, then, is some suggested language focusing on the
significance of Kilby and Noyce's invention in
contributing to the New Breeze:
"Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, perhaps the greatest
legacy your work has wrought lies not SO much in the
greater convenience provided by the myriad of new devices
that the microchip has made possible -- nor the endless
hours of time that have been saved by those devices -- nor
the creation of countless jobs and untold wealth -- nor
even the rich veins of knowledge and information that
would have lain untapped but for the awesome power of the
microchip.
"Your work, the etching of your imaginations on the
material of history, is perhaps best rewarded by the
microchip's worldwide liberation of human expression --
human expression that had been trapped by the heavy hand
of the state; because no tyranny can long contain an
aspiring mind in a world of personal computers, modems,
fax machines, copiers and all the thousands of ways in
which the microchip has harnessed the power of knowledge
for the individual.
"Your work has marked the beginning of a new epoch. For
years the brutal hands of state authority have hurled sand
into the eyes of history itself. But now a New Breeze
blows that same sand back in the form of the microchip --
the symbol of the Information Age.
(more)
3-3-3
"I have often spoken about the New Breeze. Very simply
it is the force of an idea: the idea of freedom and
democracy. Technological change can reinforce freedom --
it actually does, at this very moment. The technological
change of the Information Age is helping to fan the New
Breeze and ventilate long-stifled centers of expression.
Together, the Information Age, symbolized by the
microchip, and the New Breeze of freedom and democracy
reinforce each other.
"The darkness that for many nations has long obscured
vast areas of history and knowledge -- what the Czech
writer, Milan Kundera has called the "Kingdom of
Forgetting" -- is suddenly being dispelled and blown
away. Whole peoples are awaking from an artificial
amnesia imposed upon them by brute force of the state.
"What emerges to take its place will depend mainly on
what the people themselves do in those places where which
the New Breeze has been blowing. But what emerges will
also depend in part on us: on all those who have long
treasured the traditions of the free exchange of ideas and
information -- on engineers like Jack Kilby and Robert
Noyce who have helped create the knowledge-based economy
and the technologies of the Information Age.
"We, by our own actions and our own example will help
determine whether the Kingdoms of Forgetting develop into,
as it were, the Republics of Remembering -- new
commonwealths of memory: Memory not just in the sense
that the microchip has memory, but more importantly memory
in the sense of treasuring the Western traditions of
democratic, limited government that ensures our freedom.
We today can better safeguard our freedoms and our past
because great imaginations like Kilby's and Noyce's looked
to future. And for that your country is very grateful.'
###
Document No. 113193
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
02/12/90
4:00 p.m. 02/13/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
SUBJECT:
(02/12 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
:
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
WINSTON
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 02/15, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
MICROCOSM
CHAPTER
ver Mead had called it as a teenager. It was a replacement part,
5
king back hungrily at vacuum tube slots rather than forward to the
:
of the microcosm. Individual discrete transistors were relevant to
ultimate promise of the technology chiefly because they provided
ining in the ways of silicon.
The silicon transistor was the key to the cosmos only because mil-
ns could ultimately be packed together on single chips and insu-
The Monolithic Idea
ed by their own oxide. Packed so tightly together, slow silicon
nsistors would operate incomparably faster than any assemblage of
:edier germanium devices. No one at TI at the time could even
agine such a thing.
In the move into the microcosm-Planck's invisible sphere-the
idea of combining many transistors and other circuit elements on a
single piece of silicon, one chip, marked a point of no return. An
engineer could see and handle single discrete transistors and connect
them to other devices with ordinary copper wire. He could still imag-
ine that he was working with ordinary materials in a visible world.
He was still manipulating the solid stuff of his sensory experience.
But putting an entire system of electrical components on one chip the
size of a fingernail was a new challenge, which required the crossing
of a great divide. The integrated circuit would take the industry down
a slippery slope from the familiar shores of the senses into a quantum
sea.
Yet this invention was not made at a major industrial or university
laboratory full of quantum physicists and expensive equipment. Mak-
ing the plunge instead were two engineers at two small companies,
following the logic of information technology wherever it should
lead.
One of these engineers arrived early in 1958 at the Dallas head-
quarters of Texas Instruments. A tall, quiet man named Jack Kilby,, he
had been designing small systems for hearing-aid companies at a firm
74
MICROCOSM
The Monolithic Idea
75
in Wisconsin called Centralab. He would apply unpackaged transis-
do with silicon? Obviously transistors
diodes
already being
tors and other devices to a ceramic substrate and then connect them
done. But by contrast silicon did not make very good resistors and
by depositing metal lines and resistors on the surface of the ceramic
capacitors, both crucial to managing power and storing it in most
by a silk-screen process. Although far inferior to true integrated cir-
circuits. It would be original, certainly, to make a silicon resistor. But
cuits-ICs on single chips-this hybrid approach was more efficient
it would also be absurd to use preciously purified silicon to make a
than wiring together separately packaged devices. Kilby's idea was
device that cost a penny in carbon. Yet, thought Kilby, who had
appealing enough that as late as 1964, IBM, in a moment of typical
contrived various novel capacitors for Centralab, one just might be
conservatism, adopted it for the breakthrough 360 mainframe com-
able to produce a silicon capacitor. Its performance wouldn't ap-
puter series.
proach that of the standard metal and ceramic capacitor but it would
Kilby's first assignment in Texas, however, was to develop "micro-
do the job
particularly in the low power world of solid state
modules" that seemed actually inferior to the ceramic systems he had
For that matter, you could make a silicon resistor
And come to
built in Wisconsin. The micromodule concept envisaged encasing
think of it-this was the idea that would revolutionize electronics-
each transistor or other component, together with all its wiring, in a
"if you could make all the essential parts of a circuit out of one
separate plastic package. These identical modules could be plugged
material, you could manufacture all of them, all at once, in a mono-
together like Lego blocks. The key appeal of the micromodule to TI
lithic block of that material."
was its sponsor, the U.S. Army. Its appeal to the Army was its secure
This was the integrated circuit: a group of transistors and other
footing in the known world of the macrocosm. With careful direc-
components interconnected on one tiny piece of semiconductor. It
tions, even a small child could assemble any specified circuit from
could be a hearing aid, a computer memory cell, a radio oscillator
these fungible units.
in the end it might even be logic for avionics or a hand-held calculator
The problem was, so it seemed to Kilby, that the small child would
(Kilby would later patent a calculator chipset, together with a tiny
grow old and gray before any important project was finished. By the
thermal printer for the readout). Kilby did not know what the limits
time Kilby arrived at TI, military systems for such functions as missile
would be. But his thought process captured the essence of the semi-
control, space travel, supercomputers, airplane avionics, and other
conductor revolution in America.
complex uses entailed many millions of components. Built out of so-
Because it consisted of a series of second-best solutions-inferior
called micromodules, they would fill skyscrapers. The Army's proposal
resistors and capacitors, for example-which ended only in a radical
in fact illustrated the futility of macrocosmic approaches to micro-
drop in manufacturing costs, Kilby's concept would have been un-
cosmic technology.
likely to emerge from a laboratory of pure science. A breakthrough in
Still, the Army wanted it and was willing to pay, so Kilby set out
product design, it likely would have sprung neither from a capital
to design appropriate modules
and if they were tiny enough, per-
equipment producer nor from a semiconductor factory, both of which
haps
if they were cheap enough, possibly
they
could
be
focus on existing products. Because it threatened the jobs of computer
dumped on the market to sell as miniature Lego blocks at Christmas,
engineers who made their living combining electronic components
Then, in July 1958, TI dispersed for one of its mass vacations, leaving
into elegant configurations on circuit boards, the new device would
Jack Kilby-as a recent arrival unentitled to time off-in effective
not have been invented or accepted readily in the computer industry.
command of the semiconductor laboratory. An exciting sense of free-
A synthesis of technical and economic speculations based on materials
dom possessed him. It was a chance, thought Kilby, to come up with
science, circuit design, processing techniques, and a wild hunch, it
something different.
was the kind of solution most doggedly obstructed by the usual divi-
From extended interviews with Kilby, T. R. Reid, author of a vivid
sions of labor and specialization in large companies. And it happened
history of The Chip, composed an inventor's fugue, which went some-
at Texas Instruments, in part, because most of the company was not
thing like this: "If Texas Instruments was going to do something
there.
it probably had to involve silicon." Fair enough.
What could you
When the company returned from vacation, however, things began
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76
wrong. Kilby's boss, Willis Adcock, was enough intrigued work by
learning from the master. In Noyce's presence, Shockley would call
former colleagues at Bell to check out any novel results the young
to his go new employee's crabbed circuit sketches to set him to pro-
man achieved.
ducing of diffusing two impurities onto the wafers in hot ovens, where they devices
prototypes. But TI was then moving toward a new system could
For example, before Esaki's Nobel Prize-winning invention of the
tunnel diode was announced, Noyce presented to Shockley a detailed
be processed like so many cookies. Because the first diffused his proto-
proposal for such a device. But Shockley was not interested. He never
germanium "mesa" transistors, Kilby agreed to make from the
seemed quite to realize that the young men he had assembled in Palo
were types on a piece of germanium. It was a fatal step away
Alto-for all their humble beginnings and bulging Windsor knotted
microcosm. device was called the mesa because in shape it resembled a flat-
ties-were in many ways superior to the polished authorities he had
The southwestern mountain rising above the sands of a usually
left behind him at Bell Labs.
topped substrate. Because the emitter and base were in the protruding
Eventually the group left Shockley in favor of an offer from Fair-
silicon the mesa was accessible from above and was isolated from sticking neigh- out
child of Syosset, Long Island, which was interested in establishing a
semiconductor firm. Shockley is now said to see Noyce as "traito-
part, mesas by air. Previous transistors had lead wires of silicon or
boring from their two ends below the surface of the block one
rous." But by holding the eight key men from Shockley Labs to-
Thus they could not be pushed together or made one on chip
gether, Noyce succeeded not only in saving Shockley's most precious
germanium. of semiconductor. Mesas could be built in groups on the mesa
legacy to the industry but also in creating the team that would bring
piece the wires getting in the way. The wires between
the world of electronics massively back to Shockley's original vision
without could be added later. The mesa seemed a godsend for integrated
of a field effect transistor (FET). Elegantly simple and casy to minia-
tops circuits, and indeed it would play a critical role in their development mesas to
turize, eventually the FET would be a key to the microcosm.
The eight defectors from Shockley Semiconductor were Noyce,
at two companies. But only Jack Kilby would actually use
Moore, Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Eugene Kleiner, metallurgist
make integrated circuits.
it was that for his revolutionary device Kilby chose a fatefully On a
Sheldon Roberts, Jay Last, an expert on photo optics from Corning
So material and a fatally obsolescent transistor design.
Glass, and Jean Hoerni, a physicist with two doctorates. In a sense
obsolete sliver of germanium less than one half inch long, with spidery gold con-
they were the founders of Silicon Valley. While rapidly expanding
wires awkwardly soldered from one mesa top to another, Kilby contact
their numbers-hiring among others a tall, burly young engineer
trived one of the ugliest little devices since the original point
named Charles Sporck from a GE components factory in Schenectady,
New York, and Andrew Grove-they set to work to redefine the
transistor. of the device back in Mountain View, California, however,
industry.
Hearing engineer working at Fairchild Semiconductor quietly brought was
Together the group swept past TI in integrated circuits and in the
one forth similar designs he had been working on. His name the true
process transformed Kilby's hunch into one of the most important
inventions in the history of technology. Known as the planar inte-
Robert some Noyce, and most people in the industry regard him as
grated circuit, Fairchild's concept comprised the essential device and
inventor of the integrated circuit.
of a minister in an Iowa farm community, Noyce as a from boy
process that dominates the industry today. In the 1960s, it gave Fair-
had the of barns. During his course through Grinnell College, MIT, into
The created son a flying machine and used it to glide down safely
child a lead in the new phase of the industry comparable to the van-
tage that TI had achieved in the 1950s manufacturing silicon
transistors. Ultimately it moved the industry deep into the micro-
and tops Philco-Ford Semiconductor, this "can-do" confidence grew
cosm, and put America on the moon.
a sense of high destiny in the world.
Then he came a cropper. At Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories,
The first steps toward dominance came from the team of Moore
also in Mountain View, where Noyce worked from 1955 to twenties 1959,
and Hoerni. Setting out to design large diffusion furnaces that could
had treated Noyce like a youth in his
process scores of silicon wafers at one time, they began batch-process-
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MICROCOSM
The Monolithic Idea
79
ing the very kind of transistor that TI was then making in germanium:
between TI and Fairchild-despite conceiving of it and building pro-
the mesa. The precision of the diffusion method, as mastered by Gor-
totypes well after Kilby.
don Moore, allowed Fairchild rapidly to make its mark in this tech-
The decision was just. The image of those mesas, with wires run-
nology.
ning between them like gold transmission lines above the intervening
Nevertheless, there were flaws in the mesa. For one thing, it still
desert, countervailed the claim in his patent application that they
needed tiny gold wires hooked up to the promontory. For another,
could be "laid down" on the surface. They couldn't. The wires could
its exposed surfaces tended to attract contaminants. This problem
not be laid down without an insulator and Kilby had offered none.
became Fairchild's historic opportunity.
Indeed, none would work on germanium mesas. Planar silicon diox-
To protect the mesa from contaminants during manufacture,
ide insulation was what made the IC a reality and made Noyce the
Hoerni and Moore began playing with the idea of depositing a layer
real inventor (with key assists from Hoerni and Moore).
of silicon dioxide over its surface. But running a thin silicon dioxide
Just as important as these conceptual advances in the move to the
film up and down the mesa's steep slopes was nearly impossible, even
microcosm, however, was an entire chain of manufacturing tech-
with the new diffusion method. It would be better, Hoerni thought,
niques that Moore, Sporck, and the other Fairchild engineers per-
to have a plain. Thus he stumbled into the historic idea of flattening
fected over the following years. Although integrated circuits operate
the mesa. Then he saw he could use the flat layer of silicon dioxide
with incomprehensible speed, they can take long months to produce.
for two purposes at once. Unlike the oxides of other elements, silicon
Even in 1989, with the most modern equipment, the usual fabrication
dioxide could both protect devices from chemicals during fabrication
process-often after many man-years of design work-usually takes
and insulate them during their electrical operations.
some six weeks or more. During Fairchild's world-beating rush of
Suddenly an entirely new and better approach to semiconductor
1959 and 1960, the process dragged out over a year.
production began to emerge in his mind. The diffusion process made
The diffusion step, in which gaseous impurities or dopants slowly
it possible to create transistors not by adding layers to the top, but by
sink into the surface of the substrate, occurs at a temperature ap-
diffusing the impurity "dopants" into the surface. Hoerni proposed
proaching the melting point of silicon (1200 degrees Celsius), and
that a single transistor be created, with a flat surface and with all its
takes a period of hours. Then comes the photolithography: creating a
regions accessible on that surface. Such a device, which Hoerni called
pattern on a chip by exposing its surface-covered with a light-sensi-
"planar," would solve the problem of contamination because a rela-
tive chemical called photoresist-to light through a glass photomask
tively flat topography could be protected nicely by a planar film of
inscribed with the design.
that excellent insulator, silicon dioxide, that could easily be grown on
In effect, the designs are projected onto the wafer like a slide on a
silicon by heating it in an oxidation furnace with pure oxygen or
screen, but with all the lenses reversed to miniaturize the image rather
steam.
than magnify it. After the design is set by exposing the photoresist to
This concept revolutionized the semiconductor world, for it
light, the resist is etched away in accordance with the desired pattern.
prompted Bob Noyce to think of integrating large numbers of elec-
The designs are "developed," hundreds on each wafer at a time, much
tronic components on one flat chip of silicon. Neatly disposing of the
like a photograph of hundreds of chips.
nagging, labor-intensive problem of bonding gold wires to each elec-
By repeating these steps for several layers, the pattern of transistors
trode (as was necessary in Jack Kilby's mesa IC), Noyce proposed to
and other IC components is created. Finally, a scheme of holes, or
interconnect the parts by aluminum lines evaporated onto the insulat-
vias, is developed in the oxide insulator. These holes are for the me-
ing oxide surface. The aluminum could be connected with each tran-
tallization: the evaporated layer of aluminum, photo-etched into pre-
sistor through holes in the oxide.
cise patterns, that would actually integrate-by interconnecting-the
While Kilby had invented two integrated circuits, Noyce was ready
elements in the circuit.
to show how to mass-produce them. And because Noyce was clearer
Thus eliminated were all the thousands of wires-sticking out from
in specifying the mode of interconnection and insulation, he was
both ends and from the top of each discrete component-that made
in
IC
of
litigation
transistor manufacture and packaging a laborious expensive and fre-
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The Monolithic Idea
81
quently unreliable process. At every potentially disruptive step, partic-
ularly during the etching away of unwanted metal, the Fairchild
production went severely awry. Military contracting grew rapidly and
TI lost some of its creative edge, particularly in the metal oxide silicon
nventors used silicon dioxide to protect the device.
These general techniques embraced thousands of exacting particu-
(MOS) technologies of Gordon Moore's parable. One day in 1966,
Willis Adcock, Kilby's former boss, quit TI and walked dazzled
ars, and it is the details that are everything in semiconductor work.
Suffice it to say that it took nearly three years for other companies to
through Fairchild, marveling at their efficiency with the planar pro-
cess. The invisible sphere had shifted again.
master the intricate interplay among the different steps. By the time
others worked it all out in the mid-sixties, Fairchild had become the
dominant company in the microcosm, moving fully into "the invisible
sphere" that Planck had defined.
Like their intellectual precursors in physics, these callow young men
could find no casy idiom to describe their achievements. Their feats
defied every analogy to the world in which they-and all of us-were
raised and in which our very language was formed. They had to deal
in sizes that confound any metaphor of the minute, from motes to
mites; in numbers, of precise trillions of drifting or diffusing elec-
rons, that dwarf the merely astronomical; in speeds-nanoseconds
(billionths of seconds)-that render agonizingly and viscidly slow the
snapping of a finger. Even to begin they had to create clean rooms
that flout any standard of the immaculate, any concept of sterilization,
any simile of snow.
Cleanliness for these purposes is judged in particles of a diameter
more than 1 micron per cubic foot. "Class 100," then necessary in a
semiconductor fabrication area, measures one hundred times cleaner
than the some 10,000 such particles per cubic foot in the operating
room of a hospital. One of these infinitesimal particles athwart a
transistor channel looms in the micrographic photos-as in the com-
mon speech of the Valley-as a "boulder." Now taken for granted in
an industry moving to class 10 and below, these conditions had to be
created for the first time at Fairchild.
Like TI before it, Fairchild achieved its breakthroughs with vir-
tually no government assistance while its largest competitors-chiefly
the vacuum tube companies-were receiving collectively hundreds of
millions of dollars in grants. But when the government needed a way
to 'miniaturize the circuitry for its Minuteman missiles and its space
flights, it did not use micromodules or any of the other exotic tech-
nologies it had subsidized. It turned first to Fairchild rather than to
its early favorites and beneficiaries. Fairchild's lack of military entan-
glement in the late fifties finally allowed the company to get the bulk
of military and aerospace contracts in the early 1960s.
Meanwhile, at TI, Haggerty's balance between defense and civilian
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE
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Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?") ) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
( (First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
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focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. Or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET]
Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
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integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
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policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // Or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
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whom this evening's prize is named. //
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boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) ) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
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DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Dr.
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
Mr Morrow
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[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Mr. Dr. Bechtel Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
( (You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
But there's no confusion
those neat striped hats they wear?") // tonight,
X
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
((Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
((First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
down the shoft
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
/
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. "). ) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
X
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of
watch. [Hold up Drm with a cakulator wristwotch
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
introduced We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
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engineering. 11 or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) ) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
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DATE: 02/12/90
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REMARKS:
Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss
Winston by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 02/13, with a copy to my office.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
TO: CHRISS WINSTON
February 14, 1990
NSC concurs with the Presidential remarks for the engineering awards to
be given February 20, 1990.
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CC: James W. Cicconi
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
1990 FEB 12 PM 6: 20
February 12, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Mr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Dr. Bechtel. Members and Guests of the
National Academy of Engineers. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you,
Jack, for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) //
Tonight, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you during
National Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients
of engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
( (Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
((First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way, then stopped. The
man was set free. // Next, came the politician. When the
guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. //
Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the engineer
2
focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine," he told
the foreman, "I think I have the answer. ")) //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. // And
their landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention perhaps no
less crucial than the discovery of fire. // Not to date myself,
but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a video game.
// The microchip has changed all that -- and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this pen. [PULL PEN CALCULATOR FROM
POCKET] Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could ever
live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
3
I know that the National Academy shares this belief. So it
has studied how America's engineering talent enhances our
competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to protect the globe
from environmental abuse. // You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. // And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
begun a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a new
incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Yet, ultimately, it is the private sector that has shaped
American opportunity -- and will continue to bring opportunity to
the New Millennium. // Look at General Electric, which is
spending $1.2 million a year on minority science scholarships.
And $20 million annually to involve more inner-city kids in
engineering. // or Mobil -- launching grant programs to help
high-school students enhance America's technological capability.
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
4
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) )) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. No government planner, he knew, decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? //
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. //
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Engineering Prize. And say: Thank you, God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
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Document No. 113193
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
02/16/90
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: DRAPER ENGINEER AWARD
(02/14 5:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
PINKERTON
DEMAREST
WINSTON
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
needs
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
HITE HOUSE FAX 1
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PG. 10
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 14, 1990
1990 FEB Pil 5. 05
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
CURT SMITH
Cs
SUBJECT:
REMARKS FOR DRAPER ENGINEER AWARD
I. SUMMARY
On Tuesday, February 20, at 8:45 p.m., you will address
about 200 people at the first Charles Draper Prize ceremony. The
two distinguished engineers, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, who
independently co-invented the microchip will be honored with the
Draper Prize. Dr. Bob White, President of The National Academy;
Dr. Joseph Charyk, Chairman of the Draper Laboratory; Dr. Robert
Seamans, Chairman of the Draper Prize Committee; and Mr. Jack
Welch, Chairman of the National Academy and CEO of General
Electric will each give brief introductory remarks. Also
attending will be Mr. Stephen Bechtel, Honorary Chairman of
National Engineering Week; Mr. Richard Morrow, Chairman of Amoco;
Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin; and the State Department host,
Undersecretary Ivan Selin.
II. DISCUSSION
The attached remarks (8 minutes, speechcards) praise Jack
Kilby and Robert Noyce for their remarkable invention. The
creation of the microchip has changed the world and nurtured the
information age, making our global village even smaller.
HITE HOUSE FAX 1
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PG.11
(Smith/Blessey)
5 P.M.
February 14, 1990
DRAPER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENGINEERING AWARDS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990
STATE DEPARTMENT
8:45 P.M.
Mr. Welch. Mr. Kilby and Dr. Noyce. Dr. White, Dr. Charyk
[CHAIR-ik], Dr. Seamans, Mr. Bechtel, Mr. Morrow. Undersecretary
Selin, Ambassador Dubinin. Members and Guests of the National
Academy of Engineering. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Jack,
for that introduction, and for your warm reception.
((You know, as a boy I used to dream of being an engineer.
In fact, when one of my grandkids heard I was addressing an
audience of my heroes, he said, "Could you bring back one of
those neat striped hats they wear?")) // Well, tonight let
there be no confusion.
It is indeed a pleasure to be with you during National
Engineers Week. And to salute the first two recipients of
engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark
Draper Prize.
((Let me begin with a story which I think captures the
spirit of this evening. It concerns three men scheduled to be
executed on the same day of the French Revolution. One was a
lawyer, another a politician, the third an engineer.
((First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guilotine
face up
-- and the blade went two-thirds of the way down the track, then
stopped. The man was set free. // Next, came the politician.
WHITE HOUSE FAX 1
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When the guilotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was
spared. // Finally, came the third man -- and typically, the
engineer focused on the problem, not himself. "That guilotine,"
he told the foreman, "I think I have sec you're the answer.")) problem //
As you can see, engineers just can't help themselves --
whatever the cost, they keep aiming for perfection. And they
have helped make our century a time of extraordinary exploration.
Opening doors into an age where mankind not only moved into the
future -- but re-invented it.
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. // And their
landmark work -- the microchip -- an invention which has already
taken its place among the greatest of all time. 11 Not to date
myself, but when I was growing up, PAC-Man was a hiker, not a
video game. // The microchip has changed all that -- and helped
America change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room --
shrunk down to a size that fits on your lap. The microchip made
it possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of this watch. [HOLD UP ARM WITH WATCH]
Think, finally, of our planet. And how the microchip has
stirred the new breeze of democracy. // Today, the President of
Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, visited the White House. And as we
talked, I thought of how images of the past year have linked the
peoples of Prague and Warsaw, Budapest and Berlin. Images of
bravery and defiance -- of humanity's quest for freedom. And it
was the microchip which carried them from one Nation to another
IHITE HOUSE FAX 1
SAT 17 FEB 90 01:07
PG. 13
3
-- becoming an instrument of liberty and the symbol of the
Information Age. // Integrated circuits have enabled us to do
the unimaginable. Now, it is unimaginable to believe we could
ever live without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to de-
industrialize -- but re-industrialize. To paraphase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. // Yet
remember, too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide
that world with further breakthroughs. For engineering is
"always a beginning, never a consummation." //
I know that the National Academy of Engineering shares this
belief. So it has studied how America's engineering talent
enhances our competitiveness. And is exploring new ways to
protect the globe from environmental abuse. // You realize that
truly informed decisions on issues like climate change require us
to better integrate science, technology, and engineering into the
public policy equation. //
Our Administration agrees -- and so supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We have asked for a record high 71 billion dollars for R&D in our
budget for Fiscal Year 1991. 11 And to short-circuit the
prediction that America will run short of engineers, we have
introduced a National Science Scholars initiative to give kids a
new incentive to excel in science, mathematics, and engineering.
And I have announced an ambitious goal -- but one we can achieve
-- that U.S. students will be Number One by the year 2000. 11
lite HOUSE FAX 1
SAI 17 FEB 90 01:08
PG.14
4
You can tell that I respect people who have an understanding
of science. My Chief of Staff, John Sununu, is such a man. As
are Admiral Jim Watkins, our Energy Secretary, and Dr. Allan
Bromley, my Science Advisor. Yet, ultimately, it is the private
sector that has shaped American opportunity -- and will continue
to bring opportunity to the New Millennium. // Look at General
Electric, which is spending $1.2 million a year on minority
science scholarships. And a $20 million commitment to involve
more inner-city kids in engineering. // or Mobil -- launching
grant programs to help high-school students enhance America's
technological capability,
These efforts -- both private and public -- will sustain the
computer revolution. For they rely on the qualities of American
drive and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your
Academy says, "To the advancement of engineering
and the
well-being of all humanity." And that are central to the man for
whom this evening's prize is named. //
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future. Yet at the same
time, a practical man. ((I'm reminded of a writer who was asked
what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove
only one thing. // "I would take the fire," he replied.) Dr.
Draper knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. He knew no government planner decided
that Marconi would invent the wireless. And what might have
HITE HOUSE FAX 1
SAT 17 FEB 90 01:08
PG. 15
5
happened -- or worse, might not -- had Henry Ford been forced to
wait for Washington's approval before testing his model-T? 11
If he had, Barbara and I might have come here on a bicycle built
for two. //
Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius of engineering --
which explains, in turn, the greatness of Dr. Draper. He said:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
individuals who labor in freedom." Laboring in freedom, Charles
Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to inspire
-- and to make history move his way. 11
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history -- and made each American proud. So let me now present
to Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce engineering's highest award -- the
Charles Stark Draper Prize. And say: Thank you, God bless you,
and God bless the United States of America.
#
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 20, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
UPON PRESENTATION OF THE
CHARLES STARK DRAPER PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING
The State Department
Washington, D.C.
8:50 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you, Jack. I got
worried there when Jack was saying when we want somebody that is well
known to present the prize, I was thinking Barbara's not here.
(Laughter.) But, Jack, thank you for those very kind remarks.
To our honorees, Kilby and Noyce; and to Ambassador
Dubinin, our Soviet Ambassador here who's doing such a good job for
his country; and Dr. White; Dr. Charyk; and my old friend, Dr.
Seamans; also another old friend, Steve Bechtel; Mr. Morrow; and the
Undersecretary Selin; and Don Atwood here from the Defense
Department. And members and Guests of the National Academy of
Engineering.
I'm reminded of the famous story of the guy that called
the insurance company after it closed one evening. A voice answered
and he said, "Sir, I'd like to talk to you about converting my 20 pay
life into the cash value immediately. And further, I've heard more
about your key man insurance that insures the very key people, and
we'd like a little more information on that. And lastly, we have
this family -- I have six kids and we want a family health plan."
The voice on the other end said, "Look," he said, "I'm the janitor
around here just cleaning up, and after I said hello that's all I
know at all about insurance."
I feel the same way about engineering here tonight --
(laughter) -- surrounded by all this brain power. It's overwhelming.
But I am pleased to be here. I deem it a very great pleasure to help
honor and celebrate National Engineers Week. And, of course, it is
an honor to salute the first two recipients of this, engineerings
highest international award, the Charles Stark Draper Prize.
Let me begin with a story that will show you my
understanding of engineering, that I see it. It concerns three men
that were scheduled to be executed on the same day of the French
Revolution. One was a lawyer, another a politician, the third an
engineer. First, came the lawyer. He put his head in the guillotine
and the blade went two-thirds of the way down the track and then
stopped. The man was set free. Next, the politican. When the
guillotine stopped short of his head, he, too, was spared. Finally,
came the third man, the engineer, and he focused on the matter at
hand. "I think that guillotine has a problem," " he told the
executioner, "but don't worry I think I have the solution."
(Laughter.)
I say that with respect -- (laughter) -- but as you see,
engineers just can't help themselves -- whatever the cost --
(laughter) -- they keep aiming for perfection. And they've helped
make our century a time of extraordinary exploration, opening doors
into an age where mankind not only moved into the future, but
reinvented it.
MORE
- 2 -
Tonight, we honor Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. And their
landmark work, the microchip, an invention which has already taken
its place among the greatest of all time. Not to date myself, but
when I was growing up, PACMAN was a hiker, not a video game. The
microchip came along and changed all of that and helped America
change the world.
Think, for example, of a computer the size of a room
shrunk down to the size that fits on your lap -- the microchip made
all that possible. or a calculator slashed from the size of a
refrigerator to the size of a wristwatch. Think, finally, of our
planet, and how the microchip has stirred the new breeze of
democracy.
Maybe it's a good day to salute that because today the
President of Czechoslavakia Vaclav Havel came over to the Oval Office
and then was our guest at the White House for lunch. And what a
stirring moment -- I'll just divert for one second -- I took him up
to the Lincoln bedroom, which is not normally the thing when you have
these official visits. But I wanted him to see the room in which
Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. And I
think I detected tears in his eyes, this playwright who not so many
month ago was in jail and here he is the President of a fine, new,
burgeoning democratic country. It was a very moving experience.
As I talked with him, I thought of how images of the past
year have linked the peoples of Prague and Warsaw and Budapest and
Berlin. Images of bravery and defiance -- of humanity's quest for
freedom. And it was the microchip which carried them from one nation
to another, becoming an instrument of liberty, the symbol in this
information age. Integrated circuits have enabled us to do the
unimaginable. Now it is unimaginable to believe we could ever live
without them.
Already, the microchip has helped America not to
de-industrialize, but reindustrialize. To paraphrase Churchill,
never has something so small done so much for so many. Yet remember,
too, that if we are to lead the world, we must provide that world
with further breakthroughs, for engineering is always a beginning,
never a consummation.
I know that the National Academy of Engineering shares
this belief. So it has studied how America's engineering talent
enhances our competitiveness, and is exploring new ways to protect
the globe from environmental abuse. You realize that truly informed
decisions on issues like climate change require us to better
integrate science, technology, and engineering into the public
equation -- policy equation.
Our administration agrees, and so, supports research and
development in all areas of science, technology, and engineering.
We've asked for a record high $71 billion for R&D in our budget for
Fiscal 1991. And to short-circuit the prediction that America will
run short of engineers, we've introduced a National Science Scholars
Initiative to give kids a new incentive to excel in science, math,
and engineering. And I have announced an ambitious goal, one of our
national goals reached after great consultation with the governors --
but one, a goal that we can achieve -- that U.S. students will be
number one by the year 2000.
You can tell -- I hope you can tell from looking around,
that I have great respect for people who have an understanding of
science. Jim Watkins is a member of our Cabinet, Secretary of
Energy; I'm pleased to see Dr. Bromley here; and Secretary Rice; and,
of course, my own Chief of Staff John Sununu, such a man -- engineer.
Yet, ultimately, I am convinced -- not that we duck our
responsibility in the federal government -- but ultimately, I am
convinced that it is the private sector that not only has shaped
American opportunity, but will continue to bring opportunity to the
new millennium.
Look at -- Jack, I don't want to embarrass you -- but
MORE
- 3 -
look at GE, spending $1.2 million a year on minority science
scholarships. And a $20 million commitment to involve more
inner-city kids in engineering. Or Mobil -- launching great programs
-- grant programs to help students enhance America's technological
ability. I know that I'm going to, just through omission, risk
embarrassing others because so many in this room are responsible for
programs of this nature.
These efforts, both private and public, will sustain the
computer revolution, for they rely on the qualities of American drive
and determination. Qualities that will contribute, as your Academy
says, "to the advancement of engineering and the well-being of all
humanity." And that are central to the man for whom this evening's
prize is named.
Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the
boundaries of mankind's technological future, and yet at the same
time a practical man. I'm reminded of a writer who was asked what he
would take if his home were on fire and he could remove only one
thing. "I would take the fire," " he replied. (Laughter.) Dr. Draper
knew that Yankee ingenuity revolves around what works.
Finally, he was indomitable -- a fighter who looked to
himself for inspiration. Albert Einstein once spoke of this genius
of engineering, which explains in turn the greatness of Dr. Draper.
He said, "Only men who are free create the inventions and
intellectual works which make life worthwhile." Working in freedom,
Charles Draper well used that freedom. Used it to create and to
inspire -- to make history move his way.
This evening, we honor two men who themselves have made
history and made each American proud. So let me now present to Jack
Kilby and Bob Noyce engineering's highest award -- the Charles Stark
Draper Prize. And say thank them, thanks to both of you for your
inspirational leadership.
Thank you all, and God bless the United States of
America.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
8:54 P.M. EST