Sample of Past Conversations Speakers*

Geraldine Brooks

Foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Pulitzer
Prize winning author

William H. Brown

Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives

General Josiah Bunting

Superintendent of VMI, President of Hampton-Sydney College,
President of Briarcliff College

William Colby

Director of the CIA

Ambassador Michael Collins

Irish Ambassador to the United States

Pat Collins General

assignment reporter for News 4 for 30 years

Thomas Curley

President of the Associated Press

Ambassador Jaime DeOjeda

Spanish Ambassador to the United States

M. Stanton Evans

American journalist, author and educator. Author of Blacklisted
by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and
His Fight Against America’s Enemies

Bertram & Diana Firestone

Owners of Genuine Risk, the second filly to ever win the
Kentucky Derby

The Honorable Johanna Fitzpatrick

Chief Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals

Dr. Tracy Fitzsimmons

President, Shenandoah University

Tina Gulland

Head of the Washington Post’s radio and TV projects; Executive
Producer of weekly public affairs TV show Inside Washington.

Dr. Margaret Hamburg

Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration

The Honorable Thomas Hogan

Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts;
Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of the District of
Columbia; and a member of the FISA Court

Brit Hume

Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News; Managing
Editor of the Fox News Channel; anchor of the Special Report
with Brit Hume on Fox News

Jonathan Jarvis

Director of the U.S. National Parks Service

General P.X. Kelley

The 28th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps

Joe May

Electrical engineer, inventor & politician; served in the Virginia
House of Delegates for 20 years representing the 33rd District

John McLaughlin

Acting Director of the CIA

The Honorable William Mims

Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court

John Morton

Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency

Margaret Richardson

Commissioner of the IRS

Barbara Riggs

Deputy Director of the Secret Service

Cokie Roberts

Well-known journalist and author: a contributing senior news
analyst for NPR; a regular on-air analyst for ABC.

Dean Rusk

Secretary of State

Bob Ryan

First on-air meteorologist of the Today Show, Chief Meteorologist
of the NBC affiliate WRC-TV

Jan Scruggs

Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Kenneth Starr

Federal Court of Appeals Judge, U.S. Solicitor General, the
Independent Counsel under President Clinton who investigated
the Monica Lewinsky affair

Admiral Leighton Smith

Commander in Chief of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Allied
Forces Southern Europe during the Yugoslav War

Kim Strassel

Member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board; writes
the weekly Wall Street Journal column, “Potomac Watch”;
frequent panelist on political talk shows.

The Honorable James Symington

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
representing Missouri

Evan Thomas

Award winning journalist and author; Assistant Managing
Editor of Newsweek; regular panelist on the weekly public
affairs TV show, Inside Edition.

Vernon Walters

Deputy Director of the CIA; U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations; Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Mark Warner

Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia; U.S.
Senator from Virginia

Frank Wolf

Member of U.S. Congress for 34 years


*In some cases, the positions shown for speakers were held before or after they spoke at Conversations.

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