Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture with Manmohan Singh

Friday, September 24, 2004
from Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, delivers the Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture.

The Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture, inaugurated in 1969, was named for a charter member of CFR who served as its president from 1944 to 1946 and as its chairman from 1946 to 1953. This lecture is given by a distinguished foreign official who is invited to address CFR members on a topic of major international significance.

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