Sir Samuel Brittan, 1933-2020.

• Author: Smick, David

Sir Samuel Brittan, who died at age 86 earlier this year, was a great friend of this publication. When I approached him in early 1987 about the idea of a policy magazine offering a variety of viewpoints, he responded: "Do it. I'll write and include me on your editorial advisory board." Sam Brittan was a helper.

Several years earlier, I had called the distinguished journalist to ask his opinion of the "Congressional Summit on the Dollar and Trade" that I was organizing with Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and former Congressional staff advisor Richard Medley. The "summit" became a bipartisan rejection of the floating exchange rate system and, as we worked behind the scenes with the U.S. Treasury led by James A. Baker, it laid the groundwork for the subsequent Plaza...