Speaker Events

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Heads of State and Government

Prince Albert of Monaco
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Queen Noor
Raul Alfonsin
Vicente Fox
Madame Pandit
Corazon Aquino
Mikhail Gorbachev
Romano Prodi
Queen Beatrix
Chaim Herzog
Yitzhak Rabin
Benazir Bhutto
Lyndon Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Willy Brandt
Mary McAleese
Mrs. Anwar Sadat
George W. Bush
Mohammed Mossadegh
Margaret Thatcher
George H.W. Bush
Boris Yeltsin
Jimmy Carter
Benjamin Netanyahu
Kateryna Yushchenko
Abba Eban
Richard Nixon
 


Government Officials, Leaders, and Advocates

Madeleine Albright
Princess Alia Al-Hussein
Prince Turki Al-Faisal
Howard Baker
James Baker III
George Ball
Joe Biden
Julian Bond
Amb. Richard Boucher
Donna Brazile
L. Paul Bremer
Stephen G. Breyer
EU Amb. John Bruton
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Patrick Buchananan
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Frank C. Carlucci
Bob Casey
Ahmed Chalabi
Dick Cheney
Michael Chertoff
Warren Christopher
Joseph S. Clark
Wesley K. Clark
William Cohen
William E. Colby
Andrew Cordier
William J. Crowe, Jr.
Mario Cuomo
Bob Dole
Allen Dulles
Abba Eban
Marian Wright Edelman
John Edwards
Douglas Feith
Louis J. Freeh
Richard Gardiner
Newt Gingrich
Rudy Giuliani
Al Gore
Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer
Carlos Gutierrez
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Lee Hamilton
W. Averell Harriman
Gary Hart
John Heinz
Carla Hills
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
Jesse Jackson
Amb. Said Jawad
Vernon Jordan
Janis Karpinski
Robert Kayan
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Henry Kissinger
Ed Koch
Teddy Kollek
C. Everett Koop
Robert S. McNamara
George Mitchell
Walter Mondale
Ralph Nader
Paul Nitze
Michael Nutter
George Packard
Reza Pahlavi
Rod Paige
Colin Powell
Dan Quayle
H.E. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Ralph Reed
Robert Reich
Edwin Reischaur
Edward Rendell
Bill Richardson
Condoleezza Rice
Elliot Richardson
Nelson Rockefeller
Mitt Romney
Dennis Ross
Robert Rubin
William Ruckleshaus
Donald Rumsfeld
Dean Rusk
Amb. Klaus Scharioth
James R. Schlesinger
Arlen Specter
Andy Stern
Shirin Tahir-Kheli
George Tenet
Dick Thornburgh
Stansfield Turner
Kurt Volker
Caspar Weinberger
Christine Todd Whitman
Amb. Michael Wilson
Harris Wofford
Paul Wolfowitz
Andrew Young

Journalists and Media Personalities

Dave Barry
Peter Beinart
Kristin Breitweiser
Mika Brzezinski
Tom Brokaw
David Brooks
Art Buchwald
James Burke
Hodding Carter
Eleanor Clift
Jim Cramer
Lou Dobbs
E.J. Dionne
Michael Elliott
Linda Fasulo
Anthony Feinstein
Thomas L. Friedman
David Frum
David Gergen
Ellen Goodman
Don Graham
Jeff Greenfield
James Hoge, Jr.
Peter Jennings
Larry King
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
William Kristol
Paul Krugman
Quil Lawrence
Jim Lehrer
Mara Liasson
Chris Matthews
Andrea Mitchell
Brian Murphy
Alan Murray
Dee Dee Myers
Clyde Prestowitz
Dan Rather
Cal Ripken Jr.
Cokie Roberts
Steve Roberts
Andy Rooney
Sally Quinn
Tim Russert
William Safire
Harrison Salisbury
Robert J. Samuelson
Daniel Schorr
Hedrick Smith
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Lesley Stahl
Andrew Sullivan
Barbara Walters
Brian Williams
Judy Woodruff
Bob Woodward

CEOs and Executives

Giovanni Agnelli
C. Michael Armstrong
Norman Augustine
John Bogle
John Brennan
Edgar M. Bronfman
David L. Cohen
Steve Forbes
John Hofmeister
Mike Eskew
Henry Kaufman
Herb Kelleher
James P. Kelly
Tom McKillop
Warren V. Musser
Joseph Neubauer
Cesar Pelli
Jack Perkowski
Brian L. Roberts
James D. Robinson, III
Andy Grove
David W. Johnson
David Rockefeller
John Rowe
Hubert Schoemaker
Juergen E. Schrempp
Charles Schwab
Roger B. Smith
George Soros
Ted Turner
Paul Volcker
Heinrich von Pierer
Sanford I. Weill
Jack Welch

Authors and Celebrities

Billy Baldwin
Bono
Leonard Bernstein
The Capitol Steps
Tom Clancy
John Cleese
Bill Cosby
Alan Dershowitz
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Betty Friedan
David Halberstam
Cole Hamels
Charlton Heston
Sir Edmund Hillary
Ariana Huffington
Allison Janney
Sergei Khrushchev
Stephen King
Dominique Lapierre
Greg Mortenson
Malika Oufkir
George Plimpton
Sydney Pollack
Cal Ripken Jr.
Paul Rusesabagina
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Beverly Sills
Sam Snead
Isaac Stern
Rick Steves
Gore Vidal

Scholars and Analysts

Akbar Ahmed
Fouad Ajami
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Max Boot
Benjamin Barber
Michael Beschloss
Lynne V. Cheney
Eric Chivian
Noam Chomsky
E.J. Dionne
David Frum
Frank Fukuyama
John Kenneth Galbraith
Leslie Gelb
Vartan Gregorian
Harry Harding
Richard Haass
Josef Jaffe
Bernard Lewis
Walter Russell Mead
Vali Nasr
Joseph Nye
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Daniel Pipes
Kenneth Pollack
Walt Rostow
Louis Rukeyser
Jeremy Siegel
Steven Simon
Natan Sharansky
Lester Thurow
Fareed Zakaria