1990-91 through 1999-00

1999-2000

  • George Bush - Former President of the United States
  • Bill Moyers - Journalist
  • George Stephanopoulos - Political Scientist
  • Alice Walker - Poet, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist and Biographer

1998-99

  • General Colin Powell - Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Presidential Advisor and Author
  • Elie Wiesel - Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Professor and Author
  • Tommy Lasorda - Former Manager of the L.A. Dodgers and Member Baseball Hall of Fame

1997-98

  • Carol Burnett - Actress
  • Marian Wright Edelman - Author, Founder of the Children's Defense Fund
  • Andy Rooney - CBS News correspondent, Author
  • Maya Angelou - Author

1996-97

  • Henry Louis Gates - Author
  • Edward James Olmos - Actor
  • P.J. O'Rourke - Author and Political Satirist
  • Toni Morrison - 1993 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

1995-96

  • Rita Dove - U.S. Poet Laureate 1993-95
  • David Gergen - Journalist and Political Pundit
  • Gail Sheehy - International Best-Selling Author
  • Howard Stringer - Expert on the Information Superhighway

1994-95

  • The McLaughlin Group - PBS Political Talk Show
  • Garry Wills - Scholar, Classicist and Journalist

1993-94

  • Dick Cheney - Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
  • George F. Will - Political Commentator
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault - Journalist

1992-93

  • Terry Anderson - Former Chief of AP's Beirut Bureau, Former Hostage
  • Arthur Schlesinger - Historian and Author
  • Ellen Goodman - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist

1991-92

  • Peter Arnett - CNN Correspondent
  • Vladimir Pozner - Soviet Commentator
  • Tom Wolfe - Author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities"

1990-91

  • Carl Sagan - Scientist and Author of "Cosmos"
  • Patricia Schroeder - United States Congresswoman
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski - Former Presidential National Security Officer