Dear Colleagues, Dr. Marburger recently spoke to the AAAS Policy Forum on the topic of "Budgetary and Policy Context for R&D in FY 2009". The text of the address can be found at: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/speeches/05-08-08%20jhm%202008%20AAAS%20Policy%20Forum.pdf This was his seventh, and perhaps last, appearance as the President's Science Advisor and head of the White House science advisory apparatus at this forum. As such, it presents an interesting insight into the strategies which the administration has attempted to follow and, perhaps, a summary of what he would like the legacy of his tenure to be. Norman Graf