On Thursday, the American Enterprise Institute will hold their annual dinner and award General David H. Petraeus the 2010 Irving Kristol Award.
The yearly award is presented at the Institute's annual dinner to an individual, selected by the AEI Council of Academic Advisers, who has made exceptional intellectual or practical contributions to improved government policy, social welfare, or political understanding.
Often awarded to economists and political figures, this will be the first time a sitting military leader has been presented the Kristol award. Veronique Rodman, Director of Media Affairs, said Petraeus fits into the line of the award's recipients because he is "an intellectual general" and that "it's long overdue to recognize such a figure" with the Irving Kristol Award.
RSVPs closed April 23rd, but if seats were still available here's what it would cost:
$50,000 Co-chair Table
$25,000 Patron Table
$10,000 Sponsor Table
$500 Supporter (two tickets)
To an expected audience of 1,000 people, Petraeus will also give the Kristol lecture. No title is yet available, but he is expected to speak on the transformation of the military.
The Kristol Award replaces the Francis Boyer Award, named named after the former SmithKline executive in the 1940s and 1950s whose first recipient was former president Gerald R. Ford in 1977.
Since then, recipients have included George F. Will, Justice Antonin Scalia, Henry Kissinger, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Ronald Reagan. Irving Kristol was awarded the Boyer award in 1991.Find the full list of recipients and many of their speeches here.
Irving Kristol, who passed away last year at the age of 89 and commonly referred to as the "Godfather of Neoconservatism, had been a long time senior fellow at AEI.
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