The Francis Boyer Award was the highest honor conferred by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. It was named for Francis Boyer, a chief executive at Smith, Kline & French in the mid-twentieth century and a strong supporter of AEI who died in 1972.[1] The Boyer Award was replaced in 2003 by the Irving Kristol Award.

List of recipients

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Year Recipient Nationality Lecture title
1977 Gerald R. Ford   American "Toward a Healthy Economy"
1978 Arthur F. Burns   Austro-Hungarian
  American
"The Condition of the American Economy"
1979 Paul Johnson   British "The Things That Are Not Caesar's"
1980 William J. Baroody Sr.   American Award given posthumously
1981 Henry Kissinger   German
  American
"The Realities of Security"
1982 Hanna Holborn Gray   American "The Higher Learning and the New Consumerism"
1983 Alan Walters   British "The British Renaissance, 1979-?"
1984 Robert H. Bork   American "Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law"
1985 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick   American "The United States and the World: Setting Limits"
1986 David Packard   American "Management of America's National Defense"
1987 Paul A. Volcker   American "Public Service: The Quiet Crisis"
1988 Ronald Reagan   American "Freedom and Vigilance"
1989 Antonin Scalia   American
1990 Thomas Sowell   American "Cultural Diversity: A World View"
1991 Irving Kristol   American "The Capitalist Future"
1993 Dick Cheney   American "Getting Our Priorities Right"
1994 Carlos Salinas de Gortari   Mexican
1995 George F. Will   American "The Cultural Contradictions of Conservatism"
1996 Alan Greenspan   American "The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society"
1997 James Q. Wilson   American "Two Nations"
1999 Michael Novak   American "God's Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously"
2000 Christopher DeMuth   American "After the Ascent: Politics and Government in the Super-Affluent Society"
2001 Clarence Thomas   American "Be Not Afraid"
2002 Norman Podhoretz   American "America at War: The One Thing Needful"

References

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  1. ^ "Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
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