- Alan Keyes
Dr. Alan Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is a former Reagan administration diplomat, a Harvard-educated constitutional scholar, and a conservative political activist. He is also a former television and radio talk show host. He has run twice for President of the United States and three times for the U.S. Senate in 1988, 1992, and 2004 as a Republican. - Robert McFarlane
Robert McFarlane After a distinguished career of public service culminated in President Ronald Reagan's cabinet as his National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane founded his own energy development company, Global Energy Investors LLC, sponsoring major international power projects in Brazil, Pakistan, the Philippines, and China. He has also served as a consultant to foreign governments on energy, infrastructure, and privatization policies. - Tony Blankley
Anthony "Tony" Blankley (born 1948 in London, United Kingdom) is the editorial page editor for "The Washington Times", co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program "Left, Right & Center", and author of "The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?" Additionally, Blankley is a regular "talking head" for various television shows, including "The McLaughlin Group" and "The Diane Rehm Show". - Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves is a writer, syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. - Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. - Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is a journalist, television commentator, and writer. She covers burgeoning international issues for all NBC News broadcasts, including "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams", "Today", and MSNBC. She is also often a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews. She frequently anchors the 11AM hour of MSNBC Live. Mitchell graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, … - Daniel Ellsberg
In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, then a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S Decision-making in Vietnam. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study of Vietnam for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gave a copy to The New York Times. - Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. After earning his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as an associate and a partner in the Los Angeles, CA office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. - David Dreier
Water is a priority issue for Congressman Dreier. One of the midnight regulations would discontinue the EPA's monitoring of a water contaminant called perchlorate. A chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, perchlorate has been linked to thyroid problems in children, pregnant women, and newborns. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not only in Rep. Dreier's district, it is a superfund cleanup site which has a history of water contamination from -- wait for it -- perchlorate. - Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but. - Brian Lamb
Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. He hosts "Washington Journal" once a week, and hosted the C-SPAN show "Booknotes" from 1989 to 2004. Lamb now hosts a weekly one-hour program called "Q&A" in which he interviews people from a wide range of backgrounds, such as journalists, teachers, politicians, authors, and technology innovators. - Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter has been in show business for more than 60 years and has co-produced and acted in numerous dramatic shows and motion pictures. His best-known shows established records for longevity. - Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is also the former board chair of Pacifica Radio. She is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the primary professional organization for historians of the United States. At Penn, Berry teaches American legal history. - Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern was one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz, Ukraine on July 21, 1920, Isaac Stern was ten months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928. He studied there until 1931, then studied privately with Louis Persinger. - Douglas H. Ginsburg
Judge Ginsburg is a graduate of Cornell University and of the University of Chicago Law School (1973), where he was the Articles Editor of the Law Review. He was law clerk to Hon. Carl G. McGowan on the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice Thurgood of the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the Harvard Law School Faculty (1975-83). - Charles Z. Wick
Charles Z. Wick (October 12 1917 -) was director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) under President Reagan (1981-1988). As USIA director, Wick launched the first live global Satellite television network. - Scott Simon
Scott Simon is an American journalist, and the host of National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Saturday". - Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. He was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore of French-Canadian background March 22, 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota. L'Amour's books remain enormously popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. - J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972) was an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was the founder of the present form of the agency, and remained director for 48 years until his death in 1972, at age 77. During his life he was highly regarded by the US public, but in the years since his death many allegations have tarnished his image. - Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft". - Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 - July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain. - Marjorie Holt
Marjorie Sewell Holt, a Republican, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented Maryland's 4th congressional district from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1987. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended Jacksonville Junior College. In 1940–1941 she attended the University of Florida College of Law, and was admitted to the Florida bar in 1949, and the Maryland bar in 1962 and commenced practice in Anne Arundel County, Maryland In 1972, … - Diarmuid O'Scannlain
Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain (born 1937, New York City) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers is located in Portland, Oregon. Nominated by President Reagan on August 11, 1986, to a seat vacated by Judge Robert Boochever; Confirmed by the Senate on September 25, 1986, and received commission on September 26, 1986. - Peter Roussel
A native Texan, Peter Roussel began his career in 1969 as Press Secretary to then U.S. Congressman George H. W. Bush. When Mr. Bush subsequently served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-1973) and Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973-1974), Mr. Roussel was his Personal Press Officer. Mr. Roussel went on to serve two tours of duty in the White House. - James M. Beggs
James Montgomery Beggs (born January 9, 1926) served as the 6th Administrator of NASA. Nominated by President Reagan on June 1, 1981, Beggs took his oath of office and entered the post on July 10, 1981, serving until December 4, 1985. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beggs was a 1947 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served with the United States Navy until 1954. In 1955, he received a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. - Leon Harris
Leon Harris (born 1961 in Akron, Ohio), is an American newscaster. Harris was born to Leon Sr. and Lorrene Harris in Akron, Ohio. He has three brothers: Marcus, Jerry and J.J., who still reside in Akron, while his sister Kimberly lives in Houston. He graduated from Buchtel High School in 1979, and earned a National Merit Scholarship to Ohio University where he met his wife, Dawn Lomax, whose family is also from Akron. - Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon (born April 9 1921) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel. - Sgt Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is, arguably, the most successful actor in history, having catapulted from a career as a Warner Bros. contract player and later television star into the governorship of California and two terms as President of the United States. As president, his folksy oratory skills earned him the sobriquet "The Great Communicator" while his his movie-star charisma helped him avoid responsibility for breaches of the public trust that might have resulted in impeachment for a lesser mortal.... - Robert D. Crane
Dr. Robert Dickson Crane (born on March 26, 1929) is the former adviser to the late U.S. President Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and over 50 professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information management. His great-grandfather was one of the financial founders of Northwestern University. - Red Steagall
Russell ("Red") Steagall (Born December 22, 1937) is a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe. He has performed for heads of state, including a special party for President Reagan at the White House in 1983, and has completed three overseas tours for the United States Information Agency to the Middle East, the Far East, and South America. - Raymond J. Dearie
Judge Raymond J. Dearie (born 1944 in Rockville Center, New York) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was nominated by President Reagan on February 3, 1986, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333; confirmed by the United States Senate on March 14, 1986, and received commission on March 19, 1986. - Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Ann McLaughlin Korologos has served as a member of Kellogg Company's Board of Directors since 1989. As a member of Kellogg Company's Board of Directors, Ms. Korologos serves on the Compensation Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee, and the Social Responsibility Committee. She currently services as chairman of the RAND Board of Trustees. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. - Don W. Wilson
Don W. Wilson was born in 1942. Wilson was appointed the Archivist of the United States by President Reagan and served from December 4, 1987 to March 24, 1993. On May 18, 1992 in his official capacity as Archivist, he certified the ratification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. - Margaret D. Tutwiler
Margaret Tutwiler was sworn in on July 16, 2001, as the new U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco. From January of this year until June, Ms. Tutwiler served in the White House as Assistant to the President and Special Adviser for Communications. She held the same position for President Bush's father from August 1992 until January 1993. - William Henry Draper III
William Henry Draper III is a prominent American businessman, son of William Henry Draper Jr.. Father of Timothy C. Draper. Attended Yale with George H. W. Bush, graduated in 1950, the year after George H. W. Bush, and was a member of Skull and Bones. Co-founded the venture capital firm Draper & Johnson Investment Company in 1962. One of the founding investors in George W. Bush's Arbusto Energy in 1977. - Leonard Lauder
Leonard Lauder was chief executive of Estée Lauder Companies until 1999; now he serves as chairman of the board. Today Estee Lauder dominates the prestige cosmetics industry with such brands as Estee Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C., Aveda, Bobbi Brown and Stila. Son William takes over as CEO in 2004. He is the son of Joseph and Estée Lauder, and the older brother of Ronald Lauder. Leonard Lauder has long been a major benefactor of the Whitney Museum of American Art, … - Harold Volkmer
Harold Lee Volkmer (born April 4 1931 in Jefferson City, Missouri) is an American politician from Missouri. He is a Democrat who served 20 years in the United States House of Representatives. - David Manker Abshire
David M. Abshire is president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and president of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation of New York. He is the vice chairman of the board of CSIS and was its cofounder in 1962. He cofounded with Kazuo Inamori the CSIS Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy. Dr. Abshire is a graduate of West Point and was decorated during the Korean War as a company commander. - Robert H. Barrow
General Robert Hilliard Barrow (born February 5, 1922) was the 27th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) from 1979-1983. Now retired, Barrow served for 41 years, including overseas command duty in three wars. - Franklin L. Lavin
Franklin L. Lavin (Frank Lavin) is the Undersecretary for International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce. Born in Canton, Ohio, in 1957, he previously served as the United States Ambassador to Singapore from 2001 to 2005. The Undersecretary position, in addition to its policy making role, oversees the U.S. International Trade Administration. Educated at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, …
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