Shortly after serving as US ambassador to India, the famous American economist John Kenneth Galbraith was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve as America's representative on a special two-person committee struck to resolve a decade-long dispute between American and Canadian airlines over reciprocal landing rights. Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson chose, as his nation's representative, the great Canadian-born economist... John Kenneth Galbraith:

"After I negotiated with myself on the few serious points of difference," Galbraith later recalled, "I rendered a judgment satisfactory to the carriers of both countries."