2007

Robert MacNeil
Broadcast Journalist & Author
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2006

William Safire
Columnist and Author
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2004

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Journalist and Author
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2003

Robert Redford
Actor, Director, & Activist
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2002

Zelda Fichandler
Founding Director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and Chair of the Graduate Acting Program and Master Teacher of Acting and Directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
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2001

Frank Rich
Op-ed columnist for The New York Times
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2000

Terry Semel
Past Chairman and Co-CEO of Warner Bros. & Warner Music Group
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1998

Dr. Billy Taylor
Jazz musician & educator
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1997

Alan K. Simpson
Former U.S. Senator
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1995

Winton Malcolm Blount
Chairman of Blount, Inc., philanthropist, former U.S. Postmaster General
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1993

Barbara Jordan
Former U.S. Congresswoman
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1992

Franklin D. Murphy
Former CEO of the Times Mirror Company
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1991

John Brademas
Former Congressman, President Emeritus of New York University
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1989

Leonard Garment
Special Counsel to Presidents Nixon and Ford
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