Programs · Remarkable Evening

Past Speakers

	2023 George Bush, 43rd President of the United States and Founder of the George W. Bush Presidential Center
	2022 Dr. Mark T. Esper, 27th United States Secretary of Defense
	2022 Dr. Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
	2021 Dr. Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
	2020 Walter Isaacson, Bestselling Author; Acclaimed Historian and Journalist; Professor of History, Tulane University
	2019 Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2017-2019)
	2018 Jon Meacham, Author, Historian
	2018 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Author, Historian
	2018 Joseph J. Ellis, Author, Historian
	2017 Colin Powell, Four Star General in the U.S. Army, U.S. Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Advisor
	2016 David Brooks, Political and social analyst
	2016 Thomas Friedman, Author and columnist
	2016 Ana Navarro, Political strategist and commentator
	2015 Robert Gates, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of the C.I.A
	2015 Leon Panetta, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of the C.I.A.
	2014 George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States and Founder of the George W. Bush Foundation
	2013 Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1997 – 2007)
	2013 & 2014 David Gergen, Professor of Public Service and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and senior political analyst for CNN
	2012 Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States
	2011 Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor
	2010 James Bradley, New York Times Bestselling Author
	2009 Michael Beschloss, Author & Presidential Historian
	2008 Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute & Biographer
	2007 John Irving, Academy Award & National Book Award-winning novelist
	2006 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author & Historian
	2005 Dr. Ronan Tynan, Irish Tenor & Champion Disabled Athlete
	2004 Wendy Wasserstein, Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award-winning playwright
	2002 & 2003 David McCollough, Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Historian