Welcoming Remarks
EDWIN J. FEULNER: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Ed Feulner, and I am President of The Heritage Foundation. On behalf of The Heritage Foundation, I welcome you to our conference on public diplomacy entitled “Regaining America’s Voice Overseas.”
Public diplomacy is a topic near and dear to my heart. From 1982 to 1994, under three Presidents, I served as a member–and for nine years as the Chairman–of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. I have been involved in the details and the programs of America’s talented international communicators ever since.
The first thing I learned about public diplomacy is that public diplomacy is too important–and too different–to be left to the very talented State Department professionals who “earn their stripes” by influencing government-to-government relations di-rectly.
It is my pleasure to welcome…
