Francis Boyer Award
# Francis Boyer Award

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. The Boyer Award was replaced in 2003 by the Irving Kristol Award.

## List of recipients

| 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" |
