ABSTRACT
In 1957, after half-dozen years of enlivening practical freedom, the public intellectual George F. Kennan had been given the opportunity to present his policy internationally as an alternative to official American policy. The British Broadcasting Company invited Kennan to deliver a series of prestigious talks known as the Reith Lectures. The Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations became a splendid venue for Kennan's conceptions. He went on to dominate the session of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, on April 6, 1987. Kennan and Paul Henry Nitze had organizations to express their intent, Nitze in the Committee on the Present Danger, to be opposed, but only in the late 1970s, by Kennan's American Committee on East-West Accord (ACEWA). Kennan was the ACEWA honorary chairman, more honorary than active, given his other activities, and John Kenneth Galbraith, the peripatetic liberal economist, co-chairman.
