member of the Senate, I was invited to become a member."

On August 23, 1961, Mr. George S. Franklin, Jr., Executive Director of
the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote a letter answering a question
about President Kennedy's membership. Mr. Franklin said:

"I am enclosing the latest Annual Report of the Council with a list
of members in the back. You will note that President Eisenhower is
a member, but this is not true of either President Kennedy or
President Truman."

President Kennedy is not listed as a member in the 1960-61 Annual Report
of the CFR.

The complete roster of CFR members, as set out in the 1960-61 Annual
Report, is in Appendix I of this volume. Several persons, besides
President Kennedy, whom I have called CFR members are not on this
roster. I have called them CFR members, if their names have ever
appeared on _any_ official CFR membership list.

The Council is actually a small organization. Its membership is
restricted to 700 resident members (American citizens whose residences
or places of business are within 50 miles of City Hall in New York
City), and 700 non-resident members (American citizens who reside or do
business outside that 50-mile radius); but most of the members occupy
important positions in government, in education, in the press, in the
broadcasting industry, in business, in finance, or in some
multi-million-dollar tax-exempt foundation.

An indication of overall accomplishments of the Council can be found in
its Annual Report of 1958-59, which reprints a speech by Walter H.
Mallory on the occasion of his retiring after 32 years as Executive
Director of the Council. Speaking to the Board of Directors of the
Council at a small dinner in his honor on May 21, 1959, Mr. Mallory
said:

"When I cast my mind back to 1927, the year that I first joined the
Council, it seems little short of a miracle that the organization
could have taken root in those days. You will remember that the
United States had decided not to join the League of Nations.... On
the domestic front, the budget was extremely small, taxes were
light ... and we didn't even recognize the Russians. What could
there possibly be for a Council on Foreign Relations to do?

"Well, there were a few men who did not feel content with that
comfortable isolationist climate. They thought the United States
had an important role to play in the world and they resolved