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Notable Past Speakers

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Edward Albee
Maya Angelou
Corazon Aquino
Hanan Ashrawi
Isaac Asimov
Louis Brandeis
Jimmy Breslin
Patrick Buchanan
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Stokely Carmichael
Rosalynn Carter
John Chancellor
Winston Churchill
Norman Cousins
Clarence Darrow
Angela Davis
John Dean
Alan Dershowitz
Lou Dobbs
W.E.B. DuBois
Will Durant
Marian Wright Edelman
Nora Ephron
Larry Flynt
Barney Frank
Robert Frost
R. Buckminster Fuller
John Kenneth Galbraith
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Albert Gore, Jr.
Stephen Jay Gould
Terry Gross
David Halberstam
Gary Hart
Seamus Heaney
Langston Hughes
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Jesse Jackson
Marvin Kalb
Doris Kearns-Goodwin
Garrison Keillor
Edward M. Kennedy
Alexander Kerensky
John F. Kerry
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Henry Kissinger
C. Everett Koop
Jonathan Kozol
Norman Lear
John Lewis
Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot
Vachel LindsaKeith Lockhart
Archibald MacLeish
Norman Mailer
Thomas Mann
Thurgood Marshall
Margaret Mead
Bill Moyers
B.K. Nehru
Reinhold Neibuhr
Robert Novak
Tim O'Brien
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
Linus Pauling
Leonard Peikoff
Robert Pinsky
Helen Prejean
Yitzak Rabin
Ayn Rand
Robert Reich
Janet Reno
Cokie Roberts
Eleanor Roosevelt
Carl Sandburg
Margaret Sanger
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Pete Seeger
Al Sharpton
Upton Sinclair
B.F. Skinner
Lincoln Steffens
Gloria Steinem
I.F. Stone
Nina Totenberg
Laurence Tribe
Barbara Tuchman
Ted Turner
Gore Vidal
Alice Walker
Mike Wallace
Cornel West
Linda Wertheimer
Elie Wiesel
Malcolm X