| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
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2002 |
July 16 | FRED STARR (Policy Institute Chairman) | Topic: "Any Good News from Afghanastan & Central Asia?" |
| 2001 |
July 15 | DANIEL KAMMEN (Prof. of Energy Unv. of Calif. Berkeley) | Topic: "The Coming Energy Transition" |
July 19 | RICHARD MULLER (Prof. Physics Unv. of Calif. Berkeley) | Topic: "Military Secrets of the Ocean, Atmosphere & UFOs |
| 2000 |
July 18 | JAMES R. LILLEY, Former Ambassador to China & Korea | "China, Taiwan & the U.S. in the 21st Century" |
July 21 | MARTIN ANDERSON, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution | "Status of Missile Defense" |
July 22 | JOHN MAJOR, Former Prime Minister of England | "World View" |
July 29 | HENRY KISSINGER, Former Secretary of State in Reagan Administration | "Do We Need a Foreign Policy?" |
| 1999 |
July 16 | DAVID BRODER, Author & Syndicated Columnist | "Direct Democracy--Curse or Blessing?" |
July 20 | JOHN SPENCER | "Africa--Are We Wasting Our Time?" |
July 21 | FRANK POPOFF, Chairman of the Board of DOW Corporation | "Environmental Journey" (ed. note: the irony the irony) |
| 1998 |
July 17 | WILLIAM PERRY, former Secretary of Defense | "Preventive Defense & American Security...21st Century" |
July 18 | LOU GERSTNER, Chairman & CEO of IBM Corporation | "The Networked World: Are We Ready For It?" |
August 1 | JAMES A. BAKER lll, Former Secretary of State in Reagan Administration | "The Imperative of American Leadership" |
| 1997 /font> |
July 11 | AMB. JAMES WOOLSEY, former CIA Director | "Rogues, Terrorists..:National Security in the Next Century" |
July 15 | CHRISTOPHER DeMUTH | "The Triumph of the Market & the Politics of Affluence" |
July 25 | ANTONIN SCALIA, Sitting Justice-U.S. Supreme Court | "CHURCH, STATE & THE CONSTITUTION"!!!!! |
| 1996 |
July 13 | GOV. PETE WILSON, Governor of California | "Keeping Faith With Leland Stanford" |
July 16 | DAVID M. KENNEDY, Author & U.S. History Professor | "Can the U.S. Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants?" |
July 25 | GEORGE P. SHULTZ, Bechtel Exec. & Secretary of State-Reagan administration | |
| 1995 |
July 20 | ROBERT NOVAK, Conservative Columnist | "Behind the Beltway-How the GOP is transforming Washington's Tribal Society" |
July 21 | ALEX J. MANDL (Executive V.P. AT&T) | Topic: "Communications & Weaving Spiders -- the Complex Web of Futuristic communications" |
July 22 | NEWT GINGRICH, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives | Topic Unknown (surprise speaker) |
July 29 | GEORGE BUSH SR., Former President of the U.S.A. | "Reflections: Past, Present and Future" |
| 1993 |
July 17 | CASPAR W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Defense--Reagan Administration | "The World and Mr. Clinton" |
July 28 | CHARLES W. HOSTLER | "Desert Storms Aftermath" |
| 1992 |
July 18 | RICHARD NIXON, Past President of U.S.A. | Topic Unknown |
July 22 | GEN. VERNON WALTERS, involved in CIA coup in Chile | "Integration of the European Economic Community" |
July 24 | PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN | "Middle East Peace Process" |
| 1991 |
July 20 | JOHN LEHMAN, Secretary of the Navy in Reagan Administration | Topic: "Smart Weapons" |
July 20 | HELMUT SCHMIDT, Former Chancellor of Germany | "The Enormous Problems of the 21st Century" |
July 22 | ELLLIOT RICHARDSON, Secretary of Defense/Attorney General in Nixon Administration | "Defining a New World Order" |
July 26 | RICHARD CHENEY, Secretary of Defense in Bush Sr. Administration | "Major Defense Problems of the 21st Century" |
July 17 | GEORGE SHULTZ, Secretary of State in Reagan administration | Topic: "Agenda for America" |
| 1989 |
July 14 | FRANK BORMAN (Astronaut) | "The Future of the U.S. in Manned Space Flight" |
July 22 | MICHEL ROCARD, Prime Minister of France | "Europe: 1992......" |
July 28 | MALCOLM FORBES, Industrialist | "Who's On First?" |
| 1986 |
July 17 | SIDNEY D. DRELL | Topic: "Arms Control and Star Wars" |
July 19 | WILLIAM H. WEBSTER, Director of the F.B.I. | "Spies and Terrorists: Confronting the Enemies Within" |
July 21 | ALEX HALEY, Author of Roots | "Why Am I Here?" (good question) |
July 25 | DAVID PACKARD, Co-founder of Hewlitt Packard | "A Presidential Commission" |
| 1983 |
July 17 | EDMUND W. LITTLEFIELD (C.E.O. General Electric/Utah Mining) | "Enjoying the Corporate Climb" |
July 21 | A.W. CLAUSEN (C.E.O. Bank of America/President: World Bank) | "The Global Economy--Time to Get Out of the Woods" |
July 22 | FRED HENDERSON lll | Topic: "Commercial Opportunities in Space: the Next Decade" |
July 25 | ADM. ROBERT FOLEY | "World Naval Power" |
| 1981 |
July 16 | MARVIN L. GOLDBERGER | Topic: "Space War-Fact vs. Fancy" |
July 17 | JOHN SWEARINGEN, Chair of the Bd. Standard Oil of Indiana | "Energy 1981" |
July 17 | CASPER WEINBERGER, Secretary of Defense: Reagan Administration | "Rearming America" |
| 1980 |
July 24 | GEORGE LENCZOWSKI | "The Persian Gulf Crisis" |
July 25 | FRED HARTLEY, C.E.O. Union Oil | "Oil" |
July 26 | EDWARD TELLER, Scientist & Father of the H bomb | "Nuclear Energy" |
August 1 | FERDINAND GRAF VON GALEN | "World Bank and International Monetary Systems" |
