James Baker: Foreign Policy and International Relations
Former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III, who recently served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, delivered the fifth Kissinger Lecture on Foreign Policy and International Relations in a program sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center. An endowment was established in 1999 by friends and colleagues of former Secretary of State Kissinger to support an annual appointment to the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, in addition to an annual Kissinger lecture at the Library. The lecturer, an individual who has achieved distinction in the field of foreign affairs, is chosen by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-4027

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