Toward the end of the Eisenhower administration, he was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science, and, as a member of President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education, he was a key contributor to its 1983 report "A Nation at Risk".
Hen mod slutningen af Eisenhowersadministrationen var en forfatter til Seaborg Rapporten om akademisk naturvidenskab og, som medlem af præsidents Ronald Reagans National Commission on Excellence in Education, var han en vigtig bidragsyder til rapport "A Nation at Risk" fra 1983.