A Member of the CFR Talks Back

by Zygmunt Nagorski

In the middle of New York City—that symbol of decadence, amorality, and sin—hidden under the roof of a turn-of-the-century, one-family house, an institute exists. It is an unusual and little-known body. It was there that Dwight Eisenhower wrestled with some of the problems of an Atlantic Alliance. It was in the pages of that institute’s journal that George Kennan expounded his policy of containment of the Soviet Union. It was under that roof that Henry Kissinger labored over his first major foreign policy book. And it is through that door on a side street in the center of Manhattan that foreign leaders pass to deliver their messages, to discuss their problems, to take the pulse of American foreign policy.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

by Zygmunt Nagorski

In the middle of New York City—that symbol of decadence, amorality, and sin—hidden under the roof of a turn-of-the-century, one-family house, an institute exists. It is an unusual and little-known body. It was there that Dwight Eisenhower wrestled with some of the problems of an Atlantic Alliance. It was in the pages of that institute’s journal that George Kennan expounded his policy of containment of the Soviet Union. It was under that roof that Henry Kissinger labored over his first major foreign policy book. And it is through that door on a side street in the center of Manhattan that foreign leaders pass to deliver their messages, to discuss their problems, to take the pulse of American foreign policy.