Huntington, Samuel P. "Foreign Aid for What and for Whom." Foreign Policy v. 1 (1970): 161-189.

“Foreign Aid: Billions in Search of a Good Reason” was the title of a 1963 Fortune article by Charles J. V. Murphy. Seven years later, the billions may be fewer in number, but the search for the good reason is all the more intense. The continued quest for a rationale for foreign aid is one of its distinguishing characteristics as an area of public policy. It is a quest which has been pursued through countless commissions, study groups, conferences, reports, and memoranda. President Nixon told the most recent presidential task force that its primary mission was to come up with a new concept or purpose for foreign aid. This search for a rationale will come to a public head in the spring of 1971 when Congress will probably pass the first completely new authorization act for foreign aid since it approved the Kennedy Administration program in 1961. This legislation will presumably set the course for the U.S. foreign assistance program for the 1970’s.

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