Hon. Harry S. Truman, 33rd President Of The United States;
March 26, 1962
Clinton Rossiter, Professor of Government, Cornell University;
February 6, 1963
Frederick B. Pike, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame;
May 5, 1965
James Macgregor Burns, Professor of Political Science, Williams College;
April 5, 1966
Lewis S. Feuer, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto;
December 5, 1966
Theodore C. Sorensen, Presidential Assistant to John F. Kennedy;
May 12, 1967
William J. Brennan Jr., Supreme Court Justice;
October 6, 1967
Edward W. Brooke III, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts;
May 9, 1968
Richard Hofstadter, Professor of History, Columbia University;
November 21, 1968
Birch Bayh, United States Senator from Indiana;
May 5, 1969
Richard D. McCarthy, U.S. Congressman from New York;
January 22, 1970
Edwin O. Reischauer, Professor of Far Eastern Studies, Harvard University;
April 23, 1970
Stewart Alsop, Syndicated News Columnist;
November 10, 1970
Sidney Hook, Professor of Philosophy, New York University;
April 1, 1971
John J. Gilligan, Governor of Ohio;
March 9, 1972
Daniel P. Moynihan, Professor of Urban Politics, Harvard University;
March 23, 1972
Alexander Eckstein, Professor of Economics and Chinese Studies, University of Michigan;
April 27, 1972
Mark Russell, Political Satirist;
October 19, 1972
James Reston, Vice President of The New York Times;
March 1, 1973
William Proxmire, United States Senator from Wisconsin;
January 15, 1974
George S. McGovern, United States Senator from South Dakota;
February 14, 1974
Barber B. Conable Jr., Representative from the 30th Congressional District;
April 10, 1975
Garry Wills, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Author and Lecturer;
April 24, 1975
Edmund Muskie, United States Senator from Maine;
October 2, 1975
Edward C. Banfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University;
March 11, 1976
Theodore J. Lowi, Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University;
January 25, 1977
Elizabeth Drew, Political Commentator and Author;
April 5, 1977
John V. Lindsay, 103rd Mayor of New York City, Attorney at Law, Novelist, ABC-TV Personality;
November 16, 1977
Carl Bernstein, Journalist and Author;
April 5, 1978
Jack Kemp, Congressman, 38th District of New York;
November 8, 1978
Daniel Bell, Sociologist and Futurist;
May 2, 1979
Alexander Ginzburg, Soviet Human Rights Activist in Exile;
November 26, 1979
Malcolm Toon, Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union;
October 16, 1980
Henry J. Nowak, Congressman, 37th District of New York State;
March 23, 1981
John J. LaFalce, Congressman, 36th District of New York State;
November 30, 1981
Zdzislaw Rurarz, Former Polish Ambassador to Japan;
February 21, 1982
Richard Reeves, Author and Syndicated Columnist;
April 26, 1983
Paul E. Tsongas, United States Senator from Massachusetts;
November 2, 1983
Alfonse M. D’Amato, United States Senator from New York;
October 30, 1984
Allen Matusow, Dean of Humanities, Rice University
with William Rusher Editor and Publisher, National Review;
March 27, 1985
Diane Sawyer, CBS Correspondent, Co-editor, “60 Minutes”;
March 25, 1986
Arkady Shevchenko, Former Soviet Ambassador and
Undersecretary General, United Nations;
September 17, 1986
James L. Sundquist, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Government Studies Program, Brookings Institute;
April 28, 1987
Andrew M. Greeley, Priest and Sociologist;
November 2, 1987
James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois;
October 3, 1988
Jeff Greenfield, Chief Political Commentator, ABC-TV;
May 3, 1989
Daniel P. Moynihan, United States Senator from New York;
December 10, 1990
Neil Sheehan, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner;
February 21, 1991
Barber B. Conable Jr., Retired President, World Bank Group;
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives;
November 14, 1991
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States;
March 16, 1993
Terry Anderson, Former Middle East Hostage;
March 9, 1994
George J. Mitchell, Retired United States Senator from Maine;
March 6, 1995
Bill Bradley, United States Senator from New Jersey;
October 21, 1996
Larry J. Sabato, Election Analyst; February 13, 1997
Susan Molinari, Congresswoman, 13th District of New York,
with Bill Paxon, Congressman, 27th District of New York;
February 20, 1997
Kweisi Mfume, President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP;
March 20, 1997
Bernice A. King, Renowned Reverend, Orator and Author;
February 25, 1999
James W. Michaels, Group Vice President/Editorial, Forbes;
April 15, 1999
Charles E. Schumer, United States Senator from New York;
November 15, 1999
Cornel West, Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University;
February 11, 2000
Molly Ivins, Columnist, Fort Worth Star-Telegram;
April 3, 2001
Jack Quinn, U.S., Congressman, 30th District of New York State;
September 17, 2001
Morris Dees, Co-founder of The Southern Poverty Law Center;
February 12, 2002
Mark Shields, Political Correspondent for PBS and Moderator of CNN’s “The Capital Gang”;
March 6, 2002
Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania; Chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights;
February 11, 2003
Anthony C. Zinni, Former Presidential Envoy to the Middle East; General, United States Marine Corp (Ret.);
April 3, 2003
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania;
February 23, 2004
Richard Benedetto, White House Correspondent/Columnist for USA TODAY; Political Columnist for Gannett News Service;
September 23, 2004
Dee Dee Myers, Former White House Press Secretary; Political Analyst and Commentator; Consultant to NBC’s “The West Wing”;
October 14, 2004
John Kasich, Host, The Heartland with John Kasich, FOX News Channel; Former United States Congressman;
April 18, 2006
Michael F. Scheuer ’74, PhD, CBS News Terrorism Analyst; Former CIA Officer;
February 1, 2007
Carl M. Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief, Reader’s Digest and Contributing Editor, National Journal;
January 23, 2008
Francis Fukuyama, PhD, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University;
April 15, 2008
Brian Higgins, Congressman, 27th District of New York;
November 10, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Environmental Activist and Attorney;
April 16, 2009
James McPherson, PhD; American history expert and Pulitzer Prize winner; September 15, 2009
Linda Thomas, PhD; professor of theology and anthropology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; Co-Sponsored With The Canisius Institute For The Global Study Of Religion., October 29, 2009