Looking back at his time as the first CEA chair in American history, Nourse complained that Truman wasn't actually very interested in the thoughts of economists. U.S. News and World Report once had a lengthy survey of opinion about Mr. Truman and one of the things they said is: Mr. Truman is uncomfortable with scientists and economists. They are too precise and logical. He works on a different beam,' Nourse recalled in a 1972 interview.
While economists were clearly making inroads into policy circles in the 1940s and 1950s, they were mostly just flies on the wall. They had little authority or influence.
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