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Tony Blankely
For seven years,
Tony Blankley served as Press Secretary to Newt Gingrich. In
that role, he not only helped create the messages, which shook
the country, but also helped create policy. Mr. Blankley’s knack
for appetizing sound bites (which he calls his “poor man’s
poetry”) and sound political strategy made him one of
Washington’s premiere sources of ideas and insights.
Mr. Blankley has quickly become a favorite speaker of
corporate and association audiences around the country. He uses
his background in both the executive and congressional branches
to design speeches which provide insight into today’s headlines,
and the issues that will fill tomorrow’s.
Zbiginew
Brzezinski
Counselor, Center for Strategic & International Studies; and
Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy, the Paul
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University, Washington, DC. From 1977 to 1981, National
Security Advisor to the President of the United States. In 1981
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his role in the
normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his
contributions to the human rights and national security policies
of the United States.”
Craig Crawford
Craig Crawford is one
of Washington DC’s most popular pundits. His wit and wisdom are
featured almost daily on national television and radio programs.
Crawford is a contributor under contract appearing regularly for
“The Early Show” on CBS, on cable television for CNBC and MSNBC,
and on radio for the CBS Network. He is frequently interviewed
for political reports on the NBC “Nightly News” and the CBS
“Evening News.”
Hugh Downs
Hugh Downs is a longtime anchor of ABC Television’s primetime
news magazine 20/20, is one of the most familiar figures in the
history of the medium. He left the program in September of 1999
to write and lecture and enjoy other activities: travel, flying
and riding. Downs has enjoyed a distinguished 64-year career in
radio and television as a reporter, newscaster, interviewer,
narrator, and host. In 1885 he was certified by the Guinness
Book of World Records as holding the record for the greatest
number of hours on network commercial television. In the course
of his career he has broadcast from every continent and both
poles.
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman's insight, common sense, and verbal flair have
attracted a fervent national following since 1976, when her
Boston Globe column was first syndicated by the Washington Post
Writers Group. Today, her column appears on op-ed pages
in over 440 newspapers across the country. Goodman has been with the
Boston Globe, where she is an associate editor as well as a columnist,
since 1967.
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch was born in
the Bronx on December 12,1924. He served as the 105th Mayor the City of
New York for three terms from 1979 to 1989. In 1989, he ran for a fourth
term as Mayor and was defeated by David Dinkins. He is currently a partner in the law firm of Robinson Silverman Pearce
Aronsohn & Berman LLP. He is a Visiting Professor at New York
University and will teach a course at Brandeis University in the
spring of 1999. Mr., Koch writes a weekly column for the Daily
News.
Andrea
Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for
NBC News, a position she’s held since November 1994. She
reports on evolving foreign policy issues in the United States
and abroad for all NBC News broadcasts, including “Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw,” “Today” and for MSNBC.
Senator George Mitchell
George
J. Mitchell, one of the country's top political speakers, was
appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to complete the
unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie. Mitchell left the
Senate in 1995 as the Senate Majority Leader, a position he had
held since January 1989. Recently, he served as Chairman of the
Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland. His leadership there has
earned him worldwide praise.
Daniel Schorr
Veteran
reporter-commentator Daniel Schorr, the last of Edward R.
Murrow’s legendary CBS team still fully active in journalism,
currently interprets national and international events as Senior
News Analyst for National Public Radio. Schorr’s career of more
than six decades has earned him many awards for journalistic
excellence, including three Emmys, and decorations from European
heads of state. He has also been honored by civil liberties
groups and professional organizations for his defense of the
First Amendment.
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters has arguably
interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist
in history. Ms. Walters' interviews on “20/20” and on “The
Barbara Walters Specials” read like a "Who's Who" of newsmakers,
including her interviews with every American President and First
Lady since Richard Nixon.
Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward
is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post
where he worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American
journalism prize. The Pulitzer Prize was given to the Post
in 1973 for the reporting of Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the
Watergate scandal. Woodward is the only contemporary American
writer to author or co‑author eight # 1 national best-selling
non‑fiction books.
John Zogby
John
Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International, is by all accounts the
hottest pollster in the United States today.
"All
hail Zogby, the maverick predictor who beat us all," proclaimed the
Washington Post in November 1996 after Zogby alone called the presidential
election with pinpoint accuracy. |
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