AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: THE NEXT 25 YEARS

Mr. Raymond Price, President of The Economic Club, New York City

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I'm delighted to be here, and I was certainly flattered when Noel

asked me to deliver this inaugural lecture in the Mary Belknap series

- partly because of my admiration for the FPA, but especially

because of my respect and affection for my friend Mary Belknap.

She has done so much to make this institution what it is today, and

she's such a warm and wonderful human being. Mary, thanks so

And Bob, thank you for those very kind words. I also

appreciate your kind mention of my former boss and mentor, and

friend for the last 27 years of his life, President Nixon. I can

remember when there were fewer such words..FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION

Considering tonight's announced topic, the next quarter

century, that time frame does, for me, have a certain resonance. It

was just over a quarter century ago - on August 9, 1974 - that

President Nixon became, rather abruptly, a former president.

So before I get to the core of what I want to talk about

him, at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 7 th. But by then his decision had

precisely the centrality, for most of today's voting public, of domestic,

Asia - and that these would require his skills, not Spiro Agnew's..FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION

focus. Whether, steeped as we are in a culture of escape and

years - from December 1941 to August 1945. Since then, the culture

responsibilities in the world over the next quarter century is not

his co-conspirators pursued around the globe.

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