Are American scientists and international scientists who were working in the United States looking to Europe, China, Australia, and other places where they might be able to continue? Will this mean that American science loses its allure? This executive order is a bad faith attempt to destroy an 80-year-old relationship that made American science the envy of the world. Science, the Endless Frontier was a thoroughgoing brief for basic scientific research, explaining why government support of science was an essential component contributing to the wellbeing of all. Although the Cold War tended to subvert certain priorities, a topic for another time, the Golden Age of American Science from the 1950s through the 1990s was real.