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1990-91 through 1999-00
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2020-21 through 2023-24
2010-11 through 2019-20
2000-01 through 2009-10
1990-91 through 1999-00
1987-88 through 1989-90
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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