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...memoirs, John Kenneth Galbraith recalls the days when under graduates applied for admission into Harvard's various houses. Galbraith, who was an assistant tutor in Winthrop House at the time, remembers that at the top the interview form, Winthrop house master Ronald Ferry had listed abbreviations for some nine elite boarding schools, in descending order of prestige...
...Tuesday November 9th, 1993, around 400 Harvard students gathered at the Forum of the John F. Kennedy School of Government to celebrate Professor John Kenneth Galbraith's 85th Birthday and watch the debate on NAFTA between Vice President Al Gore '69 and Ross Perot. After the debate, Galbraith commented on what has been the most widely seen event on cable TV's history. He criticized Perot's lack of coherence and the exaggeration of both debaters on the impact NAFTA would have in the U.S. economy...
However, as Galbraith offered his concluding remarks, I found myself becoming more perplexed with the disturbing U.S. centrism that continues to limit and threaten Latin America's development: "It does not matter what the outcome on NAFTA is. In six months, no one will remember it." Sadly enough, that may be true of the United States. But is it true in Mexico as well? Clearly, the answer is no. In fact, NAFTA is conceivably the most important piece of foreign legislation that has marked Mexico's history as an independent nation...
History has shown that Americans have short term memories with regard to Latin American issues. What U.S. citizen remembers and can fully justify Operation "Just" Cause? Can anyone--except perhaps a federal agent--truly say that they know what happened in Nicaragua? The validity of Galbraith's statement is truly frightening. In six months, or maybe even less, NAFTA will just be another acronym in U.S. foreign policy history. But the truth is that if NAFTA does not get approved when voted in the U.S. Congress this week, not only Mexico, but much of Latin America, will remember the rejection...
Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus JohnKenneth Galbraith called the debate "a marvel ofincoherence...