Scientists and Engineers for Johnson–Humphrey was a group of prominent scientists consisting of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second adviser

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, Kennedy adviser

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and many scientists that took part in the Manhattan project. This group's sole purpose was to make sure that

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, whom Nobel Laureate Harold Urey called a "blustery, threatening man", was not elected president.''The Republican War on Science'', Chris Mooney, pg 29

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