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WASHINGTONIDEAS FORUM

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SPECIAL THANKS Pages 30 – 32

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Washington Ideas Forum Team Page 32

NOTES Pages 34 – 37

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We at the Newseum warmly welcome the distinguished participants of the Washington Ideas Forum, hosted with The Atlantic and The Aspen Institute.

The Newseum is dedicated to the principals of the First Amendment. We believe that important dialogues on vital issues like those at the Forum perpetuate and burnish the spirit of the First Amendment.

We look forward to the engagement of brilliant minds probing key questions here in the heart of America’s main street between The Capitol and the White House.

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Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us at the third annual Washington Ideas Forum. Together with The Atlantic and the Newseum, we are delighted to offer you this series of discussions on the most important issues we face.

Over the past year we’ve seen a continuing stream of evidence that our public discourse is increasingly polarized, combative, and all too often, decidedly unproductive. But the Aspen Institute — along with our friends at The Atlantic and the Newseum — remains passionately committed to the idea that smart, nonpartisan, civil dialogue and the vibrant exchange of ideas and opinions are our best hope. This is why we are all here today.

Since 2005, the Institute and The Atlantic have worked together to present the Aspen Ideas Festival, a wide-ranging gathering of leaders from business, politics, the arts, science, and media. We’ve worked hard not only to bring together the most interesting newsmakers and expert interviewers, but also to insist on dialogue that’s civil, thoughtful, and enlightening — much like the articles to be found on the pages of The Atlantic. I’m grateful to David Bradley, Justin Smith, James Bennet, Elizabeth Baker Keffer, and the rest of the excellent Atlantic team for all of their efforts in bringing the Washington Ideas Forum to life.

I hope you enjoy and learn from the discussions you’ll be part of over the next two days, and that you’ll make meaningful connections here, too. We may not all agree on how to solve our problems, but we can certainly all learn from each other, and perhaps even find some common ground.

All best,

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As in years past, it is my privilege to welcome you to the Washington Ideas Forum. Now in its third year, the Forum, I suppose, falls short of a great Washington tradition. But, it’s a pretty good tradition and a genuine privilege to host.

Our purpose and privilege, here, are to serve you - to produce, in highest concentrate, the most important ideas moving through Washington and the nation. But, equally, you serve us in affording the occasion to practice our craft. The annual Ideas Forum gathers the most-prominent journalists in the U.S. to interview the nation’s leadership class. At least by ambition, there should be great journalism on display.

And, as to that, as to great journalism, I want to nod in tribute to my two co-hosts - Walter Isaacson and Shelby Coffey. Arguably, and I would make the argument, Walter is the most-prominent U.S. magazine editor since Harold Ross edited The New Yorker in the 1920’s. (And, that was The New Yorker. How good could it have been?) Shelby Coffey introduced Style to Washington and The Washington Post before a remarkable tenure as editor-in-chief of the LA Times. Shelby is, as well, journalism’s most-elegant leading man.

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STEPHEN J. ADLER Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News, and Executive Vice President News, Thomson ReutersMARIA BARTIROMO Anchor, Closing Bell, and Anchor and Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal ReportJAMES BENNET Editor-in-Chief, The AtlanticJOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. 47th Vice President of the United StatesJOHN A. BOEHNER Speaker, United States House of RepresentativesDAVID BRADLEY Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media CompanyTOM BROKAW Special Correspondent, NBC Nightly NewsDAVID BROOKS Op-Ed Columnist, The New York TimesRONALD BROWNSTEIN Political Director, National Journal GroupSTEVE CAPUS President, NBC News MARGARET CARLSON Editorial Director, Washington Ideas ForumRICHARD B. CHENEY 46th Vice President of the United StatesLIZ CHENEY AttorneySTEVE CLEMONS Editor-in-Chief, AtlanticLIVE, and Washington Editor-at-Large, The AtlanticSHELBY COFFEY III Senior Fellow, Freedom Forum, and Trustee, NewseumCHARLIE COOK Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report, and Political Analyst, National Journal GroupKATIE COURIC ABCWILLIAM DALEY Chief of Staff, The White HouseJAMES C. DUFF President and Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Forum, and Chief Executive Officer-designate, NewseumJAMES FALLOWS National Correspondent, The Atlantic

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MAJOR GARRETT Congressional Correspondent, National JournalTIMOTHY GEITHNER Secretary of the United States Department of the TreasuryALEX GIBNEY Film director and producerJEFFREY GOLDBERG National Correspondent, The AtlanticDAVID GREGORY Moderator, Meet the PressGWEN IFILL Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week, and Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHourWALTER ISAACSON President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aspen InstituteVALERIE B. JARRETT Senior Advisor, The White HouseHENRY KISSINGER 56th Secretary of the United States Department of StateLARRY KUDLOW Host, The Kudlow ReportDAVID LEONHARDT Washington Bureau Chief, The New York TimesCHRIS MATTHEWS Host, Hardball and The Chris Matthews ShowMARWAN MUASHER Former Foreign Minister of Jordan and Vice President for Studies, Carnegie EndowmentPERVEZ MUSHARRAF Former President of PakistanNORAH O’DONNELL Chief White House Correspondent, CBS NewsDAVID RHODES President, CBS NewsDOROTHY ROBYN Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, United States Department of DefenseDAVID M. RUBENSTEIN Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle GroupMARCO RUBIO United States SenatePAUL RYAN United States House of Representatives KAI RYSSDAL Host, MarketplaceANTONIN SCALIA Associate Justice, United States Supreme CourtERIC SCHMIDT Executive Chairman, Google Inc.BEN SHERWOOD President, ABC NewsANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Profressor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityERIC SPIEGEL President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens CorporationREX W. TILLERSON Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exxon Mobil CorporationCHUCK TODD Chief White House Correspondent and Political Director, NBC NewsANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, CaliforniaCHRIS WALLACE Host, Fox News SundayBRIAN WILLIAMS Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly NewsJUAN WILLIAMS Political Analyst, Fox News Channel




JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., has shown leadership on important issues facing the nation as the 47th Vice President of the United States. The Vice President was tasked with implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which aims to rebuild our economy

and lay the foundation for a sustainable economic future. He is also Chair of the Middle Class Task Force, a White House initiative targeted at raising the living standards of middle class Americans. He provides sustained, high-level focus for the Administration on Iraq policy, advises the President on international issues, and represents the US through international travel from Europe to South America and the Middle East to Africa. Prior to his election, Biden served in the United States Senate for 36 years. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee for 17 years, he was widely recognized for his work on criminal justice issues, including the 1994 Crime Bill and the Violence Against Women Act. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Biden played a pivotal role in shaping US foreign policy on issues related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.

JAMES BENNET joined The Atlanticin 2006 as Editor-in-Chief. Before joining The Atlantic, Bennet was Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times. During his three years in Israel, his coverage of the Middle East conflict was widely acclaimed for its balance

and sensitivity. Prior to his work in Jerusalem, he served as the Times’ White House Correspondent and was preparing to join its Beijing bureau when he was offered the Atlantic editorship. His much-lauded long-form writing for The New York Times Magazine was responsible for catching the eye of David Bradley during his year-long search for a new editor. Upon accepting the position, Bennet told a Times reporter that he saw the Atlantic job as “a chance to help, encourage, and preserve the practice of serious, long-form journalism.” Bennet is a graduate of Yale University and began his journalism career at The Washington Monthly.

STEPHEN J. ADLER was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News and Executive Vice President News of Thomson Reuters in 2011, where he oversees the editorial operations and strategy for the company. Adler joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 as Senior Vice President and Editorial

Director of the company’s Professional Division. In that role, Adler built and directed news operations to deliver original journalism and relevant information products and services on content in Legal, Tax & Accounting, and Healthcare & Science businesses. Earlier, Adler was Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek; during his five-year tenure, the magazine and website won more than 100 major journalism awards. Previously, he spent sixteen years at The Wall Street Journal, managing investigative reporting teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes. Adler is author of The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom, which won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and co-editor of the best-selling Letters of the Century: America 1900—1999 and Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present.

MARIA BARTIROMO is Anchor of CNBC’s Closing Bell and Anchor and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Report. She regularly contributes to NBC and affiliate programs, including NBC’s Todayand CNBC Asia’s daily broadcasts, and writes a monthly column in

USA Today. Bartiromo is the author of several books, including The Weekend That Changed Wall Street and The 10 Laws of Enduring Success. She has received many awards: a 2008 News and Documentary Emmy for the Bailout Talks Collapse program; a Gracie Award for Greenspan: Power, Money & the American Dream; and a second Emmy for the 2009 documentary Inside The Mind of Google. In 2009, The Financial Times named her one of the “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade.” She was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame Class of 2011 for her impact on the cable industry.




JOHN A. BOEHNER is the 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and is serving his eleventh term representing the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio. In his current role, he is focused on removing government barriers to private-sector job

creation and economic growth, cutting government spending, reforming Congress, and rebuilding the bonds of trust between the American people and their representatives in Washington. Since being elected to Congress in 1990, Boehner has served on numerous committees and worked on several notable pieces of legislation. In 2006, he was elected House Majority Leader and, for the 104th and 105th Congress, was House GOP Conference Chairman. From 2001 to 2006, he chaired the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, working on the No Child Left Behind Act. He authored 1996’s Freedom to Farm Act as a member of the Agriculture Committee and worked on 1994’s Contract with America and Congressional Accountability Act. He attended Xavier University in Ohio, and ran a small business in the plastics and packaging industry before his election to public office.

DAVID BRADLEY is Chairman and Owner of Atlantic Media Company, the parent organization of The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines and their affiliated media groups. Prior to entering media, Bradley founded and owned two (now

public) research companies – The Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board. With 50,000 applicants each year, the enterprises are the largest employers of young professional talent in the Washington region. Bradley serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, New America Foundation, KIPP DC, Bridges of Understanding, and the Manila-based Child Protection Unit. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Bradley graduated from Swarthmore College, received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. He was a Fulbright scholar in the Philippines.

TOM BROK AW is one of the most trusted and respected figures in broadcast journalism. Hired in 1966, Brokaw has anchored The Today Show and NBC Nightly News, where he was Managing Editor. Brokaw reported in 30+ documentaries on subjects including race, AIDS, the

war on terror, health care, Los Angeles gangs, Bill Gates, literacy, immigration, and the evangelical movement. He collaborated with NBC’s Peacock Productions for Discovery’s Emmy-winning documentary Global Warming: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw and The History Channel’s 1968 with Tom Brokaw and KING.He is the author of The Greatest Generation; The Greatest Generation Speaks; An Album of Memories; A Long Way from Home; and BOOM! Voices of the Sixties. Brokaw is the recipient of numerous honors and an impressive list of “firsts,” including an exclusive interview with Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev. He was the only anchor to report on-site the night the Berlin Wall fell and was the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses.

DAVID BROOKS became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic, and a commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Brooks joined

The Weekly Standard in 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years, most recently as Op-ed Editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa, and Europe. His first post at the Journal was as Editor of the book review section. Brooks’ career began as a police reporter for the City News Bureau, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times. He is author of Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense and is the editor of the 1996 anthology Backward and Upward: the New Conservative Writing. In 2011, he released his third book The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.




RONALD BROWNSTEIN is Political Director of National Journal Group, where he directs long-term editorial strategy and writes a weekly column for the magazine. He also writes regularly for sister title The Atlantic and coordinates political coverage across both

publications. Previously, Brownstein was National Affairs Columnist for The Los Angeles Times and, earlier, was National Political Correspondent and author of the weekly “Washington Outlook” column. Brownstein is a National Journal alumnus, having served as White House, National Politics, and West Coast Correspondents. He appears regularly on the major networks and served as a political analyst for CNN from 1998 to 2004. In 2007, he published his sixth book The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America. Brownstein was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In addition, he is the recipient of the National Women’s Political Caucus’ Exceptional Merit in Media award, the National Council on Public Polls’ Excellence in Media award, and the Los Angeles Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. The American Political Science Association presented him its lifetime achievement award in 2007.

MARGARET CARLSON is Editorial Director of the Washington Ideas Forum, Washington Editor for The Week, and a columnist at Bloomberg News. Previously, Carlson was the first woman columnist for TIME magazine, where she also held the posts of

White House Correspondent and Deputy Bureau Chief. Prior to joining TIME, Carlson was Managing Editor of The New Republic, Washington Bureau Chief for Esquiremagazine, and Editor of The Washington Weekly. She has covered every presidential election since 1988 and provides political commentary on various television shows. She is the author of Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House.

STEVE CAPUS was named President of NBC News in 2005 and, in this role, he holds responsibility for all aspects of the network news division, MSNBC, and NBC News Channel. Capus is also the arbiter of issues involving ethics, style, standards, safety, and other matters

that affect journalistic bearing. Earlier, Capus served as NBC News Senior Vice President and was Executive Producer of NBC Nightly News during the newscast’s anchor transition from Tom Brokaw to Brian Williams. Capus has held numerous additional roles with NBC broadly, including Executive Producer of The News with Brian Williams, Supervising Producer of Today, and Broadcast Producer of NBC News Sunrise. He sits on the Boards of MSNBC.com, The Weather Channel, the Freedom Forum, and Newseum and has received four Emmy Awards, eight Edward R. Murrow Awards, one duPont-Columbia Award, and six National Headliner Awards. In 2007, he earned the Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

RICHARD B. CHENEY was the 46th Vice President of the United States under President George W. Bush. He has had a distinguished career as a businessman and public servant, serving four Presidents and as an elected official. Before assuming the Vice Presidency, he was

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Company and served as United States Secretary of Defense during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. From 1979 to 1989, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, where he also held the post of Deputy Majority Leader and, from 1975 to 1978, was President Gerald Ford’s White House Chief of Staff. His career in public service began in 1969 when he joined the Nixon Administration and held a number of positions at the Cost of Living Council, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the White House. Cheney earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wyoming.


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LIZ CHENEY is an attorney and specialist in United States Middle East policy. From 2005 to 2006, she was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, serving as the second-ranking State Department official responsible for US policy in the

Middle East. Earlier at the Department of State, she was responsible for the establishment of the $300 million Middle East Partnership Initiative to support political, economic, and educational reform and the empowerment of women in the Middle East. She has also worked at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, and practiced law at White & Case LLP in the area of international project finance. She is currently collaborating with former Vice President Richard Cheney on his memoirs, is Chairman of the Boards of KeepAmericaSafe.com and of the Institute for the Study of War, and is a member of the International Board of Visitors at the University of Wyoming.

STEVE CLEMONS is Washington Editor-at-Large for The Atlantic and Editor-in-Chief of AtlanticLIVE. At AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s premium events division, Clemons develops concepts and editorial content and leads programs as an interviewer, moderator, and

host. Clemons is currently a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, which he helped launch twelve years ago and where he served as Executive Vice President for eight years and founded its American Strategy Program. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute and Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman, and was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center. Clemons was one of Washington’s early political bloggers, publishing the widely read and influential Washington Note. He frequently writes about topics related to foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy.

SHELBY COFFEY III is currently Senior Fellow of the Freedom Forum and a Trustee of the Newseum. He was President of CNN Business News and CNNfn, the financial network, from 1999 to 2001. Previously, Coffey served as Executive Vice President of

ABC News. He worked as Editor and Executive Vice President of The Los Angeles Times from 1989 to 1997 and was named Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation in 1995. Prior to joining the Times, Coffey was Editor of US News and World Report and The Dallas Times Herald. He began his journalism career at The Washington Post as a sports reporter and held a variety of editorial positions there over the next 17 years.

CHARLIE COOK is Editor and Publisher of The Cook Political Report and a political analyst for the National Journal Group where he writes for the weekly magazine and NationalJournal Daily. He also writes a regular column for the Washington Quarterly, published

by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a political analyst for NBC News. Prior to joining National Journal in 1998, Cook wrote a twice-weekly column in Roll Call for 12 years. He also served as an election night analyst for CBS in 1990 and 1992 and for NBC since 1994. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on US elections and political trends, Cook has appeared on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs, as well as on Good Morning America,Today, Nightline, Meet the Press, and This Week.


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KATIE COURIC is an award-winning journalist, veteran TV personality, and New York Times best-selling author. Her new syndicated daytime talk show Katie will premiere in September 2012 on ABC. She also writes a monthly column for Glamour which features an

interview with a new female role model every month. Prior to joining the Disney/ABC Television Group, Couric was Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, a 60 Minutes correspondent, and an anchor of CBS News primetime specials. When she debuted on Evening News in 2006, Couric became the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast. In 2000, Couric launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance in association with the Entertainment Industry Foundation to fund new medical research in colorectal cancer. Couric is also a co-founder of Stand Up to Cancer, which twice included partnerships with her network news counterparts resulting in live commercial-free, primetime broadcasts featuring legendary recording artists and stars from the worlds of film, television, and sports.

WILLIAM DALEY is Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, a post he assumed in early 2011. Previously, Daley served as Vice Chair, Chairman of the Midwest Region, and head of the Office of Corporate Responsibility for JPMorgan Chase & Co. Daley

served as President of SBC Communications from 2001 to 2004. Daley was Campaign Chairman for Al Gore’s presidential run in 2000. Prior to that, Daley served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1997 to 2000. Daley also served as Special Counsel to President Clinton in 1993, focusing on international trade issues. Earlier, Daley was a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt; was President and Chief Operating Officer of Amalgamated Bank of Chicago; and was a lawyer at the firm of Daley and George. He has also served on the boards of a number of corporate, academic, medical, charitable, and civic organizations.

JAMES C. DUFF is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Freedom Forum, a non-partisan foundation that promotes better understanding of Constitutional freedoms and the First Amendment; Chief Executive Officer-designate of the Newseum; and Chief

Executive Officer of the Diversity Institute, a school that focuses on increasing diversity in newsrooms. Prior to this, Duff served as Director of the United States Courts Administrative Office, where he oversaw an annual budget of $7 billion that supported 35,000 employees nationwide. From 1996 to 2000, Duff counseled Chief Justice William Rehnquist, including in the Chief Justice’s role as presiding officer of the presidential impeachment trial in 1999. Earlier, Duff was Managing Partner of the Washington office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. While there, he was Counsel and Secretary to the Freedom Forum and its related entities. Duff is former Chair of the Supreme Court Fellows Commission and a board member of the Supreme Court Historical Society. He has been an adjunct faculty member in constitutional law at Georgetown University for ten years.

JAMES FALLOWS is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic,where he has worked for nearly 30 years with posts in DC, Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Beijing. He also spent two years as Chief White House Speechwriter for

Jimmy Carter, two years as Editor of US News & World Report, and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. Fallows has been Chairman of the Board of the New America Foundation since its founding in 1999 and is also now the Chair in US Media at the US Studies Centre at Australia’s University of Sydney. His two most recent books are Blind Into Baghdad and Postcards from Tomorrow Square; he is at work on another book about China. Fallows is a five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, which he has won once. He is also a recipient of the American Book Award for nonfiction and a New York Emmy award for the documentary series Doing Business in China.




ALEX GIBNEY is an American film director and producer who directed the 2008 Oscar-winning film Taxi to the Dark Side and the 2006 Oscar-nominated film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.Other credits as director include Casino Jack and the United States

of Money and Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. His credits as producer include the Oscar-nominated No End in Sight, Who Killed the Electric Car?, and Herbie Hancock: Possibilities. In addition to the Oscar, Gibney has received numerous other awards, including the Grammy, multiple Emmys, the Peabody Award, and the duPont-Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism. Gibney recently finished Catching Hell,a film for ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, and is at work on a documentary feature for Universal on WikiLeaks.

MAJOR GARRETT is a congressional correspondent for National Journal.Prior to National Journal, Garrett reported for Fox News, where he was Chief White House Correspondent. During his eight years at Fox, Garrett also covered Congress, two presidential

elections, the war in Iraq, and many other issues of national importance. Before joining Fox News, Garrett was a White House correspondent for CNN, covering Presidents Bush and Clinton. Prior to that, he was a senior editor and congressional correspondent for US News and World Report, where he reported on Congress and the impeachment of President Clinton. From 1990 to 1995, he was a congressional reporter for The Washington Times and, from 1995 to 1997, he was the newspaper’s Deputy National Editor. Garrett has authored three books, including The Enduring Revolution in 2005 which was recently voted one of the best non-fiction political books of all time by readers of Chris Cillizza’s Washington Post “The Fix” blog.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a National Correspondent. In 2002, Goldberg was appointed to be a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and, in 2001, was named the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem

Foundation. Previously, Goldberg was Middle East Correspondent and Washington Correspondent for The New Yorker. He has also served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine.Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, which was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, among other titles. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism; the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human rights reporting; the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism; and the Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

TIMOTHY GEITHNER was sworn in as the Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in 2009. Prior to his nomination, Geithner served as the ninth President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he also served

as Vice Chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Geithner first joined the US Department of Treasury in 1988 and proceeded to work in three administrations for five Secretaries of the Treasury in a variety of posts. He served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 1999 to 2001 under Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers. Earlier, he was Director of the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund and, prior to that, worked for Kissinger Associates, Inc. He earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.




GWEN IFILL is Moderator and Managing Editor of Washington Week and Senior Correspondent for PBS NewsHour. Ifill reports on a wide range of issues from foreign affairs to US politics and policies and has covered six presidential campaigns and moderated two vice

presidential debates. Before coming to PBS in 1999, Ifill was Chief Congressional and Political Correspondent for NBC News, White House Correspondent for The New York Times, and a local and national political reporter for The Washington Post. She also reported for the Baltimore Evening Sun and Boston Herald American.Ifill serves on the boards of the News Literacy Project and the Committee to Protect Journalists, is a fellow with the American Academy of Sciences, and is author of 2009’s The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Her work as a journalist has been honored by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center, Ebony magazine, and Boston’s Ford Hall Forum. Ifill has received more than 20 honorary doctorates.

DAVID GREGORY was named Moderator of Meet the Press in 2008. He additionally contributes to NBC News and MSNBC programs including Today, Nightly News, and Morning Joe. Gregory first came to Washington in 1998 to cover the Clinton impeachment

for MSNBC and went on to serve as NBC’s Chief White House Correspondent during the presidency of George W. Bush. He has covered three presidential campaigns and reported extensively on the aftermath of September 11, including the run up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from both Washington and around the world. Gregory joined NBC News in 1995 and served as a correspondent based in Chicago and Los Angeles, covering the OJ Simpson trials and the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

WALTER ISA ACSON was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC, in 2003. Isaacson was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CNN from 2001 to 2003

and Editor of TIME magazine beginning in 1996. He first joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, National Editor, and Editor of New Media before becoming Editor. He began his career at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. Isaacson is Chairman of the Board of Teach for America and was appointed by President Obama to serve as Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international US broadcasts. He is Vice-Chair of Partners for a New Beginning, a public-private group tasked with forging ties between the US and the Muslim world. He is also on the boards of United Airlines, Tulane University, and Harvard University. Following Hurricane Katrina, he was Vice-Chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.


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Advisory Board; as Chairman of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America; and as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. From 1973 to 1977, he was the 56th Secretary of State. Kissinger is a member of the International Council of JPMorgan Chase & Co.; a Counselor to and Trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; an Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy Association; an Honorary Member of the International Olympic Committee; a member of the Board of ContiGroup Companies, Inc.; and an Advisor to the Board of American Express Company. Among many awards, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the Medal of Liberty in 1986. He has authored numerous books, most recently On China (2011); Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (2003); and Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (2003).

DAVID LEONHARDT was named Washington Bureau Chief of The New York Times in September 2011. Previously, Leonhardt wrote the paper’s “Economic Scene” column, focusing on the housing bubble, the economic downturn, the budget deficit, health reform,

and education. Leonhardt earlier was a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and helped found the

“Economix” blog. In 2005, he was one of the reporters who produced “Class Matters,” the paper’s series on social class in the United States. In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, called “Keeping Score.” Prior to joining the Times in 1999, he worked for BusinessWeekand The Washington Post. Leonhardt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2011 and won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for his Times magazine article “Obamanomics.” He earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University.

LARRY KUDLOW hosts CNBC’s primetime The Kudlow Report as well as the nationally syndicated radio broadcast The Larry Kudlow Show. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and is a contributing editor of National Review magazine and columnist and economics

editor for National Review Online. During President Reagan’s first term, Kudlow was Associate Director for Economics Planning at the Office of Management and Budget, where he was engaged in the development of the administration’s economic and budget policy. He is the author of American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity, which was published in 1998.

VALERIE B. JARRETT is a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She is also Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls and oversees the Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs; Public Engagement; Urban Affairs; and Olympic, Paralympic, and

Youth Sport. Jarrett earlier served as Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and as Senior Advisor to the President’s 2008 campaign.Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Jarrett was Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company. Previously, Jarrett held positions in both the public and private sector, including posts as Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, Commissioner of Planning and Development for Chicago, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Daley, and Deputy Corporation Council for Finance and Development. She also practiced law with two private law firms. Jarrett has served on many corporate and non-profit boards, including the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the University of Chicago.





PERVEZ MUSHARRAF served as President of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008 and as Chief Executive from 1999 to 2001. He occupied what TIME magazine described as “the most dangerous job in the world” and played a crucial role in fighting the global war on

terrorism. One of his largest achievements as President was leading Pakistan’s turnaround from being an almost bankrupt state, helping lift the country off the list of Highly Indebted Poor Countries. During his Presidency, Musharraf also worked to increase freedom of expression and women’s empowerment. On the world stage, Musharraf is a strong advocate of “Enlightened Moderation,” his vision for the Muslim world to move away from militancy and extremism and towards upward socioeconomic mobility. He is a retired four star general and served as Pakistan’s tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. In 2006, he published his autobiography In the Line of Fire: A Memoir.

MARWAN MUASHAR is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East, as well as a senior fellow at Yale University. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President of

External Affairs at the World Bank. From 2002 to 2004, he served as Foreign Minister of Jordan and, from 2004 to 2005, as Deputy Prime Minister; his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, civil society, and communications. In 1995, Muasher opened Jordan’s first embassy in Israel and, in 1996, became Minister of Information; previously, he served at the Ministry of Planning, at the Prime Minister’s office as Press Adviser, and as Director of the Jordan Information Bureau in Washington. Muasher began his career as a journalist for the Jordan Times. He is the author of the 2008 book The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation.

BRIAN MOYNIHAN is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Bank of America. Moynihan leads one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Bank of America serves consumers, businesses of all sizes, and institutional investors with a full

range of banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk management products and services. In the years prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2010, Moynihan led each of the company’s businesses: Global Wealth & Investment Management; Global Corporate & Investment Banking; and Global Consumer & Small Business Banking. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brown University, and the Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian Institution.

CHRIS MATTHEWS is Host of NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show, which first aired in 2002, and MSNBC’s Hardball, which launched in 1997. Matthews has been on the air every weekday night since Hardballlaunched. Matthews’ television career began in 1994 as host of a

two-hour nightly program on the NBC-owned America’s Talking network. Earlier, he served as Washington Bureau Chief for The San Francisco Examiner. His professional introduction to politics began when he worked in the Senate and later served as a presidential speechwriter. Matthews is the author of five best-selling books: Hardball: How Politics is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game; Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America; Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think; American: Beyond our Grandest Notions;and Life’s a Campaign. His newest book Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero is due for release in November 2011.




NORAH O’DONNELL joined CBS News as Chief White House Correspondent in 2011, where she is the principal substitute anchor for the Sunday morning public affairs program Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer and contributes to 60 Minutes. O’Donnell was

previously Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC, served as a contributing correspondent for Today and Weekend Today, and appeared regularly on The Chris Matthews Show. During her career at NBC, O’Donnell covered the Pentagon, Congress, and the White House. O’Donnell joined NBC News in 1999 and, earlier, was an MSNBC contributor and staff reporter for Roll Call. Her assignments have taken her around the globe, reporting from every continent except Antarctica. She reported from the Pentagon on September 11 and received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News Coverage for the Dateline NBC story “D.C. In Crisis.” Washingtonian magazine has named her one of the

“100 Most Powerful Women” in Washington. O’Donnell earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown University.

DOROTHY ROBYN serves as Deputy Under Secretary for Installations and Environment at the United States Department of Defense, where she provides oversight of US military bases worldwide. Department installations cover 28 million acres of land and include

300,000 buildings and other structures valued at more than $800 billion. Her responsibilities include policy, programs, and budgets related to the management of the physical infrastructure as well as environmental cleanup, conservation, and stewardship. She also leads efforts to improve base energy security through reducing demand for traditional energy, developing renewable sources, and using the bases as test beds for next-generation energy technologies. Prior to joining the Department in 2009, she was a principal with The Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm. From 1993 to 2001, she was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and served on the staff of the National Economic Council. From 1983 to 1987, she was on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN is Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, which he co-founded in 1987. Now one of the world’s largest private equity firms, Carlyle manages more than $150 billion from 36 offices around the world. Prior to founding Carlyle, Rubenstein practiced law in the

Washington office of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. During the Carter Administration, Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Earlier, he also served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and also practiced law in New York. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Kennedy Center, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, Vice Chairman of the Boards of Duke University and the Brookings Institution, and President of the Economic Club of Washington. Rubenstein is on the Boards of Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Council on Foreign Relations, Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Strategic and International Studies, American Academy in Berlin, and Ford’s Theatre.

DAVID RHODES was named President of CBS News in February of 2011. As President, he oversees all network newsgathering and breaking news coverage, including programs such as CBS Evening News, The Early Show,CBS Sunday Morning, and Face the Nation, and content for CBSNews.

com and CBS News Radio. Prior to joining CBS, Rhodes served in senior roles at Bloomberg, including as Head of US Television. As Bloomberg launched a new approach to its global TV product, he assumed responsibility for the US channel’s programming, development, editorial, newsgathering, production, and operations. During this time, he launched an all-new look and feel for the channel’s programming and made significant changes in the channel’s on-air talent and overall positioning. Earlier, Rhodes held various positions in newsgathering and management at Fox News, rising to Vice President of News in charge of the network’s day-to-day spot news coverage, domestic news bureaus, and hard-news programs. Rhodes holds an undergraduate degree from Rice University.




PAUL RYAN is serving his seventh term in the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin’s First Congressional District. In Congress, Ryan is focused on identifying solutions to balance the federal budget and improve the national economy towards

prosperity. As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan authored the Fiscal Year 2012 budget resolution, a plan to spur job creation, slow government spending, and reduce the debt burden. Ryan is also a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Ryan earned his undergraduate degree from Miami University in Ohio.

ANTONIN SCALIA has served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1986. Prior to being nominated by President Reagan to that post, Scalia served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Earlier, he served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel; Chairman of the United States Administrative Conference; and General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy. He has additionally held law professorships at Georgetown University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia. He also maintained a private practice in Cleveland, OH.

KAI RYSSDAL became host of Marketplace in 2005; he previously hosted the Marketplace Morning Report for more than four years. Prior to joining Marketplace, Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report, a news and information program distributed to

public radio stations throughout California by KQED-FM in San Francisco. Before his career in public radio, he was a member of the United States Foreign Service and served in Ottawa, Canada, and Beijing, China. Earlier, Ryssdal spent eight years in the United States Navy, first flying from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and then as a Pentagon staff officer. His radio work has won first place awards from the Radio and Television News Directors Association and the national Public Radio News Directors Association. He earned his undergraduate degree from Emory University.

MARCO RUBIO was elected to the United States Senate in 2010. He currently serves on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the Committee on Foreign Relations; the Select Committee on Intelligence; and the Committee on Small Business

and Entrepreneurship. Immediately prior to his election, he practiced law in Florida and also served as a visiting professor at Florida International University’s Metropolitan Center, as Florida Chairman of GOPAC, and as a political analyst for Univision during the 2008 election cycle. From 2000 to 2008, Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives. During this period, he served as Majority Whip, Majority Leader, and Speaker of the House, promoting an agenda of lower taxes, better schools, a leaner and more efficient government, and free market empowerment.





ERIC SPIEGEL joined Siemens Corporation in January 2010 as President and Chief Executive Officer. As Chief Executive Officer in the global company’s largest single market, he is responsible for growing the US business in the Industry, Energy, and Healthcare

sectors. Prior to joining Siemens, Spiegel spent 25 years in global consulting working with complex organizations in the energy, industrial, and automotive fields. He came to Siemens from Booz & Company, where he most recently was a Senior Vice President and Managing Partner of the firm’s Global Energy, Chemicals, and Power consulting practice. He also held the post of leader of the firm’s Washington, DC, offices. While at Booz, Spiegel was Managing Director of Booz Allen Hamilton International in Tokyo from 1999 to 2003. Spiegel was an original member of the Board of Directors for Booz & Company and was previously a member of the Board of Directors for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. An expert on the global energy industry, Spiegel is co-author of the 2009 book Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future.

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State. Prior,

Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, where she rebuilt the School’s international relations faculty and created a number of new centers and programs. She has written or edited six books, including A New World Order and The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. She appears regularly on CNN, BBC, NPR, and PBS and has served on boards of organizations ranging from the Council of Foreign Relations and the New America Foundation to the McDonald’s Corporation and the Citigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group. Upon leaving the State Department, she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award. Foreign Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009 and 2010.

ERIC SCHMIDT currently serves as Executive Chairman of Google, having previously held the title of Chief Executive Officer. Since joining the company in 2001, Schmidt has helped grow Google from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global leader in technology. In his

current role, he is responsible for the external matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships; government outreach and technology thought leadership; and advising senior leadership on business and policy issues. Prior to Google, Schmidt held leadership roles at Novell and Sun Microsystems.He is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council in the United Kingdom. He holds graduate and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

BEN SHERWOOD was named President of ABC News in 2010. He is responsible for all aspects of ABC News’ broadcasts, including World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Primetime, and This Week with Christiane Amanpour.

Additionally, Sherwood oversees ABC News Radio, ABCNEWS.com, satellite service NewsOne, and ABC News NOW. During his first year at ABC News, the network responded rapidly to breaking news around the world, from the tragedy in Tucson and revolution in the Middle East to the Japanese tsunami, killing of Osama bin Laden, devastating storms in the mid-West, and famine in Africa. ABC News landed exclusive interviews with key newsmakers including Commander Mark Kelly, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and Jaycee Dugard. He is the author of three best-selling books: The Man Who Ate the 747; The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud; and The Survivors Club.




REX W. TILLERSON is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world’s largest publicly traded oil and natural gas company, with more than 80,000 employees and operations on six continents. Tillerson was named to his current

post in 2006, having held several managerial roles in the company’s operations throughout the United States, Middle East, and Russia. He oversees ExxonMobil’s upstream, downstream, and chemical businesses, which supply energy and petrochemicals to support economic growth around the world. ExxonMobil’s application of advanced technologies has made it a leader in conventional and unconventional energy production; today, ExxonMobil is the largest natural gas producer in the United States. Tillerson is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Business Roundtable. He is also National President of the Boy Scouts of America. Tillerson is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

CHUCK TODD is Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. Since 2007, he has also served as NBC News’ Political Director. He additionally is NBC News’ on-air political analyst for NBC Nightly News with Brian

Williams, Today, Meet the Press, and MSNBC. Beyond these responsibilities, Todd oversees all aspects of the network’s political coverage and is also the editor of First Read, NBC’s must-read guide to Washington, DC, political news and trends. Before joining NBC News, Todd was Editor-in-Chief of National Journal’s The Hotline. He also serves as a contributing editor to The Atlantic and frequently contributes op-ed essays for various publications, including the New York Timesand Washington Post. In 2009, Todd co-authored the definitive election result analysis book for the 2008 campaign How Barack Obama Won.

ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA was elected the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles in 2005. In his role as Mayor, Villaraigosa is focused on improving schools, protecting the rights of working people, improving mobility and public transit, and making neighborhoods safer by

keeping crime rates at historic lows. As Mayor, he has spearheaded efforts to pass Measure R, a $40 billion investment in public transit in Los Angeles. Additionally, he founded the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, one of the largest school turnaround projects in the country. Under his leadership, Los Angeles has reached critical environmental milestones such as implementing the Clean Truck Program and sourcing 20 percent of its energy from renewable resources. Prior to being elected Mayor in 2005, he served on the Los Angeles City Council and, previously, was Speaker of the California State Assembly. Villaraigosa currently serves as President of the United States Conference of Mayors.

CHRIS WALLACE is the host of Fox News Sunday, FOX Broadcasting Company’s Sunday morning public affairs program. He also contributes to Fox News Channel’s political and election news coverage. Before joining Fox, Wallace spent 15 years at ABC

News where he served as Primetime Thursday Senior Correspondent and a substitute host for Nightline. Prior to ABC, Wallace was with NBC News, most recently as Chief White House Correspondent. Wallace has won every major broadcast news award, including three Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award, and the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton. Wallace earned praise when he served as a panel member at the “First in the South” 2007 GOP Presidential Debate in South Carolina. Wallace played an integral role in Fox News’ “You Decide 2004” election coverage, reporting live from major election events, including election night, presidential debates, conventions, New Hampshire Primary, and Iowa Caucuses. Wallace has been described as an “equal opportunity inquisitor” by The Boston Globe and “an aggressive journalist,” “sharp edged,” and “solid” by The Washington Post.




JUAN WILLIAMS is a top political analyst for Fox Television and a regular panelist for Fox News Sunday. He formerly hosted NPR’s nationally broadcast Talk of The Nation and served as NPR’s White House Correspondent and Senior News Correspondent. Prior to

NPR, Williams spent 21 years at The Washington Post, serving as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, prize-winning investigative reporter, top magazine writer, and White House correspondent. He has authored seven books, including Enough – The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America- and What We Can Do About It; Eyes on the Prize – America’s Civil Rights Years; and My Soul Looks Back in Wonder. His most recent book is Muzzled – The Assault on Honest Debate. He has won multiple journalism awards for his writing and investigative reporting along with an Emmy for television documentary writing. He was given widespread, critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including Politics-The New Black Power.

BRIAN WILLIAMS is only the seventh Anchor and Managing Editor in the history of NBC Nightly News. Previously, Williams served as NBC’s Chief White House Correspondent and was Anchor and Managing Editor of The News With Brian Williams on MSNBC

and CNBC. He has traveled the world extensively, including two years with the President on board Air Force One. He has covered numerous nominating conventions and presidential campaigns and elections and has moderated seven presidential debates. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. He has written for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Williams is the most highly decorated network evening news anchor of the modern era, having received eleven Edward R. Murrow Awards, 12 Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Award, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the George Foster Peabody Award. In 2006, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.


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The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. The Aspen Institute does this primarily in four ways: seminars, young-leader fellowships around the globe, policy programs, and public conferences and events. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and an international network of partners.aspeninstitute.org 202.736.5800

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WASHINGTON IDEAS FORUM - The Atlanticatlanticlive.theatlantic.com/WashingtonIdeasForum2011_ProgramGui… · We look forward to the engagement of brilliant minds probing key questions