This is interesting: No president in more than 50-years has been so pokey as Donald Trump about appointing a science advisor.
That shouldn’t be a surprise, I suppose. After all, The Donald’s EPA head is busily scrubbing that department’s Web site free of mentions of climate change.
What did startle me, at first, is this: Richard Nixon and Barack Obama were the fastest about appointing a science advisor. Then I recalled that Nixon launched the EPA and, of course, Obama’s reliance upon science is well-known. Nixon wasn’t too scrupulous about the Constitution, but both men governed as reality-based pragmatists. I guess small, hardly-noticed things can tell you a lot.