''Readers unfamiliar with the CFR should know that the organization was founded in 1921, largely in response to the refusal by the U.S. Senate to approve the treaty allowing the United States to join the League of Nations. CFR members were prominent among those establishing the United Nations near the conclusion of World War II and have also been disproportionately represented among cabinet member in both Democrat and Republican administrations since the late 1940s, particularly as heads of the State Department. As for the significance of the CFR in U.S. foreign policy, consider this list of secretaries of state who have been CFR members, with the party affiliation of the administration in which they served in parentheses following each:
Edward Stettinius (D), George Marshall
(D), Dean Acheson (D), John Foster Dulles (R), Christian Herter (R),
Dean Rusk (D), William Rogers (R), Henry Kissinger (R), Cyrus Vance (D),
Edmund Muskie (D), Alexander Haig (R), George Shultz (R), James Baker
(R), Lawrence Eagelberger (R), Warren Christopher (D), William
Richardson (R), Madeleine Albright (D), Colin Powell (R), and
Condoleezza Rice (R). Though Hillary Clinton is not a CFR member, Bill
Clinton is.
As a result of this pervasive CFR influence, U.S. foreign policy rarely changes to any significant degree from one presidential administration to another, even when the party in power changes. When Barack Obama became president, he kept on former president Bush’s Secretary of Defense, CFR member Robert M. Gates, until 2011.''
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