I was surprised and a bit troubled on learning that being president of this organization required a Presidential Address-what in the world would I talk about? I have not done any significant research for nearly two decades and, although my experience during that time may have some relevance for policy analysis or, perhaps better, public management, I'm not ready to talk about it. I am still trying to put together what, if anything, I learned from my public and business management experience-particularly their similarities and differences. At the moment I have only impressions, and even those are not very clear. Another possible address topic might have been selected by following in the footsteps of Dick Elmore and focusing on a specific public policy/management education issue-in his case, executive education for public managers. The issue I considered was whether students of public policy and management are sufficiently emphasizing the international and comparative aspects of the fields they are studying. We did devote a day of the spring meeting to that issue, and I was enlightened by the presentations of Brett Hammond, Charlie Wolf, Bob Putnam, Peter Gourevitch, and John Palmer. I am sure those in attendance took away some good ideas to try at their own institutions. Although I learned a great deal from the discussion, I decided there was not much I could add. I am delighted that this year's Program Committee has made special efforts to include these comparative and international aspects of policy analysis in this year's program. Having decided I couldn't add anything very useful to that discussion, I called Lee Friedman, the editor of the Journal, to tell him that I thought I would better serve the interest of the organization if I told a couple of jokes and left the rest of the time for the luncheon attendees to talk to each other. He was very nice and didn't disagree when I said I doubted I had anything very useful to say, but he did feel it would be unfortunate to miss a year in the tradition of publishing the Presidential Address in the Journal. He urged