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The Council on Foreign Relations at 100: The History

The Council on Foreign Relations: A Short History

Peer into a history of members, leaders, programs, and impact from CFR’s 1921 founding to its entrance into a new century.

1922

Georges Clémenceau

November 21, 1922. CFR’s first marquee event featured former Prime Minister Georges Clémenceau of France (shown here, second from the right, during his visit to New York that month) accompanied by a number of U.S. dignitaries, including diplomat and Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine Hamilton Fish Armstrong.

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