Abstract
DO HISTORY and historians have a legitimate role to play in the task of making policy? Obviously, if policymakers feel no need for history or if historians fail to identify a usable past, we are wasting our time discussing the lessons of experience. What, then, is the rationale for history as an aid to policymakers? Is historical thought an indispensable aspect of policymaking? Surely the behavior of our public men constitutes a presumptive case for the high utility of history in policymaking. Statesmen inveterately dwell on historical developments and their lessons. A former Secretary of State is no exception; Dr. Henry Kissinger spoke forthrightly in this vein:
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