Science Advisor to the President War II by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Vannevar Bush chaired this office through Roosevelt's death in 1945, and continued under Roosevelt's successor Harry S. Truman until 1951. After the war, President Harry S. Truman replaced the OSRD with the Science Advisory Committee in 1951. The office was moved to the White House on November 21, 1957, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to provide advice and recommendation in response to the Space Race started by the USSR's launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1. President Richard M. Nixon eliminated the PSAC in 1973, rather than appointing a replacement for
Counselor to the President Counselor to the President Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the President of the United States and senior members of the Executive Office of the President. The current office-holders are Kellyanne Conway and Johnny DeStefano. It should not be confused with the office of White House Counsel, who is the chief legal advisor to the President and the White House, which is also an appointed position, not a nominated and then Senate-confirmed one – unlike the Attorney General or Solicitor General. The position was created during the administration of Richard Nixon, where it