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 | | AEI's largest event is its annual dinner, held each year in Washington, D.C. Up to two thousand guests gather for the gala, which features an individual who has made notable intellectual or practical contributions to improved public policy and social welfare. |
 | | Named for a distinguished chief executive of SmithKline in the 1940s and 1950s, the Boyer Award was first conferred in 1977, on former president Gerald R. Ford. |
 | | Boyer Award recipients have included prominent statesmen, intellectuals, jurists, educators, and executives--among them, in 1991, Irving Kristol. |
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