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advisable at this time. The Advisory Board, therefore, respectfully recommends to the Board of Regents that such efforts not be undertaken until circumstances materially change.

The Advisory Board notes with pleasure that, in a step which it approved on January 24, 1973, there has been established in the National Museum of History and Technology, the study center--known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research--authorized under Section 2(a), Public Law 87-186, quoted above.  It is the conviction and the recommendation of the Advisory Board that the Eisenhower Institute, working in concert with the curatorial and exhibits components of the National Museum of History and Technology, can and should play a vital part in the development of future programs toward the portrayal of the historic contributions made by the Armed Forces of the United States.

It is further recommended that, both within that museum and at Fort Washington, there be carried out the purposes of Section 2(a), Public Law 87-186, which provides that:

The Smithsonian Institution shall commemorate and display the contributions made by the military forces of the Nation toward creating, developing, and maintaining a free, peaceful, and independent society and culture in the United States of America.  The valor and sacrificial service of the men and women of the Armed Forces shall be portrayed as an inspiration to the present and future generations of America.  The demands placed upon the full energies of our people, the hardships endured, and the sacrifice demanded in our constant search for world peace shall be clearly demonstrated.  The extensive peacetime contributions the Armed Forces have made to the advance of human knowledge in science, nuclear energy, polar and space exploration, electronics, engineering, aeronautics, and medicine shall be graphically described. The Smithsonian Institu-