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Green, Max: Files Folder Title: Committee for the Free World Box: 31 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Green, Max: Files Folder Title: Committee for the Free World Box: 31 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ <~·' ' ~'-".e•-o.:' \99 A conference of the ~ Committee for the Free World · . May 11-131 1984 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Washington, D.C. Friday, May 11 6:30 PM Reception Saturday, May 12 9:00 AM Registration and Cof f~e 10:00 AM Opening Address: Irving Kristel 11 Wha.t rs Going On Out There? II Moderator: Norman Podhoretz Panelists: James Q. Wilson, Suzanne Garment, Thomas Sowell, Ben J. Wattenberg, Chester E. Finn, Jr. 12:00 PM Lunch Guest Speaker: Owen Harries 2:00 PM Continuation of morning panel with audience discussion 8:30 PM Party at the Decatur House 748 Jackson Place (on Lafayette Square) Sunday, May 13 10:00 AM "Can the Political System Respond?" Moderator: Austin Ranney Panelists: Eugene V. Rostow, Michael Novak, Nelson Polsby, Laurence H. Silberman, Penn Kemble 12:00 PM Lunch Guest Speaker: Vladimir Bukovsky 1:30 PM Continuation of morning panel with audience discussion 3:00 PM Conference Ends Committee for the Free World 211 East 51 st Street. New York, New York 100221(212)759-7737 lnlemallonal Chairman RAYMOND ARON Chairman DONALD RUMSFELD Secretary NEAL KOZODOY Treasurer ROBERT B. GLYNN Executive Director MIDGE D.ECTER Deputy Director STEVEN C. MUNSON April, 1984 Board of Dlrectore WILLIAM BARRETT author and philosopher, U.S. LUIGI BARZINI author, Italy SAUL BELLOW author. U.S. ALAIN BESANCON Ecole des Hautes EIU'des, FranQ9* ENZO BETTIZA II Giornale, Italy GERO BUCERIUS ·Dfe·Zeit, We Germany JEAN·CLAUDE CASANOVA We are very glad you are coming to our conference, Commentaire, France "The State of the Nation -- 1984." I am sending this ALUN CHALFONT author, U.K. note just to go over some of the details. CARL GERSHMAN author, U.S. (on leave) SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH With the exception of the party, all the conference publisher. U.K. functions will be held at the Hyatt Regency, 400 New JOHANNES GROSS author, W. Germany Jersey Avenue, N.W. We expect the first session to start PAUL JOHNSON author, U.K. at 10:00 AM, sharp, on Saturday, the 12th, so please JEANE KIRKPATRICK U.S. Ambassador, UN come at 9:00 AM to register and pick up your materials. (on leave) LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI University of Chicago, U.S. The party, which promises to be great fun, is being HILTON KRAMER The New Criterion, U.S. held at the Decatur House, 748 Jackson Place, on IRVING KRISTOL The Public Interest, U.S. Lafayette Square. You may want to bring a guest. Please LEOPOLD LABEDZ Survey, U.K. let us know it is ~omeone not already registered. MELVIN J. LASKY Encounter, UK SEYMOUR MARTIN UPSET Stanford University, U.S. NICHOLAS LOBKOWICZ Sincerely, University of Munich, W. Germany GOLO MANN historian. W. Germany INDRO MONTANELLI II Giornale, Italy ~ NORMAN PODHORETZ Anne Green, Commentary, U.S. Conference Coordinator ROSARIO ROMEO University of. Rome, Italy ERWIN SCHEUCH University of Cologne, 815 North Belgrade Road W. Germany HUGH SETON-WATSON Silver Spring, Md. 20902 University of London, U.K. EDWARD.SHILS (301) 649 4553 author, U.S. & U.K. TOM STOPPARD playwright U.K. HUGH THOMAS Centre for Policy Studies, U.K. GEORGE URBAN historian. U.K. JACQUELINE WHELDON author, U.K. GEORGE F. WILL columnist, U.S. ...!l?I - ~ THE STATE OF THE NATION - 1984 A Conference of the Committee for the Free World Hyatt Regency Hotel, Washington D.C. May 11 - 13, 1984 Participants Vladimir Bukovsky spent twelve years in Soviet prisons, work camps, and psychiatric hospitals before being released to the West in 1976. He is the author of an autobiographical book, To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter I and a founder or Resistance International. -- Chester E. Finn, Jr. is professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University and the author of several studies of educational and social policy. He was an official adviser on the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO conference on education that · was held in Paris in April, 1983. Suzanne Garment is an associate editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, for which she writes a weekly Washington column. She is the co-author (with Daniel P. Moynihan) of A Dangerous Place. - Owen Harries is John M. Olin Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Formerly he was Australian Ambassador to UNESCO (1982 to 1983), senior adviser to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, and head of policy planning in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs. Penn Kemble is chairman of the executive committee of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and a board member of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. His articles have appeared in Commentary, The New Republic, and Public Opinion. Irving Kristo! is co-editor of the Public Interest and a member of the Board of Contributors of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of On the Democratic Idea--rn-Amer1ca, Two Cheers for Capitalism, ana-ReIIections of a~conservative:-r::ooking Ba~ Looking Ahead. -- Michael Novak is Resident Scholar in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of, among other books, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Confession of a Catholic.-- Norman Podhoretz is editor of Commentary. His books include Making It, Breaking Ranks, The Present Danger, and Why We Were in Vietnam-.- -~- -- Nelson W. Polsby is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Congress and the Presidency, Presidential Elections (with Aaron wT1davsk"y)~-ana-Po11tica1l:nnovation-rn Xmerrca.-:--- Austin Ranney is Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute and co-director of its Program in Political and Social Processes. He is the author of many books and articles on American government and politics, has served on various government and Democratic-party commissions, and is a member of the executive committee of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. 1 Eugene V. Rostow is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University. He served as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1981 to 1983, and as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1966 to 1969. He is a former chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger. Laurence H. Silberman is a partner of the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1975 to 1977 and as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1974 to 1975. He is the author of numerous articles on law, politics, and foreign policy. Thomas Sowell is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Hi~ books include Ethnic America, The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective, and Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Real1tY? Ben J. Wattenberg is Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-editor of Public Opinion. He was one of the co­ founders and is now chairman of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. He is the author of many books on American government and politics and has twice (1972 and 1976) helped to write the Democratic National Platform. James Q. Wilson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. His books include Varieties of Police Behavior, American Government: Institutions and PoliCies, and Thinking About Crime. 2 .
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