Foreign Policy and the Intellectual

EDITOR'S NOTE To commemorate the seminal contributions made by Professor Morgenthau to the theory and the practice of American foreign policy, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) presents the Hans J. Morgenthau Memorial Award each year. The person to be so honored is one whose intellectual attainments and/or practical contributions to U.S. foreign policy have been judged so exemplary in the tradition of Professor Morgenthau as to merit this singular award. In 1983, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dean of American historians, addressed a stellar National Committee audience on the occasion of the NCAFP's presentation of the third Hans J. Morgenthau Memorial Award to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. Professor Schlesinger's topic, "Foreign Policy and the Intellectual," could not be more relevant today, with President Barack Obama now in the White House.