Speakers

 

1987
  January   Ted Koppel
  February   "Iran: Yesterday and Today"
      Hodding Carter, Paul Duke and Larry Speakes
  March   Diane Sawyer with General Brent Scowcroft
  April   Charles Kuralt
 

1988

  January   Oprah Winfrey
  February   George Will
  March   "The Cold War--Will it Thaw?"
    Marvin Kalb, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Vladimir Pozner
  April   Art Buchwald
 

1989

  January   Sam Donaldson
  February   John Chancellor and Henry Kissinger
  March   "Should Drugs be Legalized?"
    William Buckley and Charles Rangel
  April   Dr. Carl Sagan
 

1990

  January   Paul Duke, Howard Fineman and Charles McDowell
  February   "Perspectives--From Right to Left"
    Frank Carlucci, Bettina Gregory, George McGovern, William Proxmire and William Rusher
  March   Mike Wallace
  April   Alistair Cooke
 

1991

  October   Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
  January   "Crisis in the Persian Gulf"
    Admiral William Crowe, General Alexander Haig,
Robert McFarlane and Edwin Newman
  February   H. Ross Perot
  March   Art Buchwald and Andy Rooney
  April   "Space and Beyond"
      James Burke, Dr. Frank Drake and James Lovell
 

1992

  October   Barbara Walters
  January   Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher
  February   Larry King with General Norman Schwarzkopf
  March   "DNA: From Catching Criminals to
Constructing Dinosaurs"
      Patricia Cornwell, Dr. Victor McKusick and
Dr. Marc Micozzi
  April   Mark Russell
 

1993

  October   Terry Anderson
  January   "Japanese/American Trade Debate" with
Hiroki Kato and T. Boone Pickens
  February   Dr. Joyce Brothers
  March   Bill Cosby
  April   Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with
Cokie Roberts
 

1994

  November   "America in the Year 2000" Lamar Alexander,
Marvin Cetron, Senator Warren Rudman and
Chris Wallace
  January   Louis Rukeyser with
Frank Cappiello and Michael Holland
  February   President George Bush
  March   Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  April   Bob Newhart
 

1995

  November   General Colin Powell
  January   Walter Cronkite with Judy Woodruff
  February   Dave Barry
  March   Tom Clancy
  April   Jack Kemp and Senator George Mitchell
 

1996

  November   Ambassador Carla Hills and Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
  January   "Space and Flight: The First & Last Men on the Moon"
    Neil Armstrong, Captain Eugene Cernan, David Hartman and Dick Rutan
  February   Calvin Trillin
  March   Charles Kuralt
  April   "The Presidency, The Press and The People"
      Ed Bradley, David Gergen, Pierre Salinger,
Sheila Tate and Bob Woodward
 

1997

  November   Dick Cavett and Carl Reiner
  January   Ray Brady with Paul A. Volcker
  February   "To Preserve and Protect: The Story of the American Presidency"
    Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough
  March   Sir David Frost interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber
  April   "The Legal System in America"
    Marcia Clark, Philip K. Howard, Prof. Arthur Miller,
Dr. Rodney Smolla and The Hon. Kym Worthy
 

1998

  November   Bill Moyers
  January   Wynton Marsalis
  February   Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Dan Raviv
  March   Mary Tyler Moore
  April   Peter Lynch
 

1999

  November   Rt. Hon. John Major
  January   Robert S. Bennett and Dr. William Bennett with
Tim Russert
  February   Harry S. Dent, Jr. and Lou Dobbs
  March   Lily Tomlin
  April   Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Michel-Cousteau
 

2000

  November   Julie Andrews with Catherine Crier
  January   "The Century"
    Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings
  February   "Technology and the New Marketplace"
    Ray Brady, Michael Connors and John Krubski
  March   Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  April   James Carville and Newt Gingrich with
Tim Russert
 

2001
  November   Senator John Glenn
  January   Tom Brokaw
  February   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with
Daniel Schorr
  March   Frank McCourt
  April   Dr. William Kelso presents "The Rediscovery of Jamestown"
 

2002
  November   Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight!"
  January   Rabbi Marc Gellman and Monsignor Thomas Hartman
  February   Dick Clark presents "Music...The Soundtrack of
Our Lives"
  March   Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough
  April   The Hon. Madeleine Albright and The Hon. James A. Baker III with Gwen Ifill
       

2003
  November   Ken Burns: "The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Opening of the American West"
  January   The Hon. Rudolph Giuliani
  February   Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan with Gwen Ifill
  March   FBI Director Louis Freeh
  April   U. S. Senator Fred Thompson
       

2004
  November   Cal Ripken, Jr.
  January   Prof. Robert J. Shiller and Prof. Jeremy J. Siegel with Geoff Colvin "Business and the Economy"
  February   Candice Bergen presents "Photographs and Stories"
  March   The Hon. Mary Robinson "Achieving Human Rights in the 21st Century"
  April   Thomas L. Friedman
       

2005
  November   General Tommy Franks with Jamie McIntyre
  January   Michael Beschloss and Walter Isaacson
  February   Tim Russert
  March   Fareed Zakaria
  April   Frank O. Gehry. with Karen Van Lengen
       

2006
  November   Robert Redford
  January   Sherry Lansing
  Febuary   Former Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell (Ret.)
  March   Tom Wolfe
  April   Rick Wagoner
       

2007
  November   Burt Rutan
  January   Malcolm Gladwell & Alvin Toffler
  Febuary   B.B. King
  March   Jim Lehrer
  April   Dr. Jared Diamond
       

2008
  November   Vicente Fox, President of Mexico (2000-2006)
  January   Carly Fiorina
  Febuary   Michael Douglas
  March   Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  April   David Brooks