The National Press Club
Newt Gingrich on Reforming Medicaid()
August 19, 2005 Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, speaks about reforming Medicaid at the National Press Club. Gingrich proposes a new model for the program "that maximizes Americans' ability to live as long as possible, as healthily as possible, with the highest possible quality of life at the lowest possible cost."
PBS President and CEO Pat Mitchell()
May 24, 2005 PBS President and CEO Pat Mitchell speaks to the National Press Club amid recent efforts by Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- which subsidizes PBS and NPR stations -- to address what he says is a liberal bias in public broadcasting.
Burt Rutan, Space Flight Engineer()
May 19, 2005 Burt Rutan, founder and chief executive of the Mojave, Calif.-based aerospace research company Scaled Composites, made international headlines as the designer/developer of SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft to reach space. He addresses the topic "Space for the Rest of Us."
Kenyan Peace Activist Wangari Maathai()
May 13, 2005 Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to the National Press Club about the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace. In the 1970s Maathai opened an agency in Kenya, The Green Belt Movement, which enabled poor people to earn a rudimentary living by planting trees and shrubs.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and James Roosevelt()
April 26, 2005 As the Senate Finance Committee holds the first Senate hearing on President Bush's Social Security plan, Sen. Barack Obama addresses the National Press Club on the topic of Social Security and its future. Obama is introduced by James Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin Roosevelt.
Ben Bradlee, Anne Eleanor Roosevelt()
April 10, 2005 Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post speaks to the National Press Club about his battle with polio. Bradlee is joined by Anne Eleanor Roosevelt, national chair of the Salk vaccine 50th anniversary, and secretary of the March of Dimes board of trustees.
Angelina Jolie, Actress, U.N. Goodwill Ambassador ()
March 8, 2005 Actress Angelina Jolie, in her role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, discussed plans for the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, which should open this spring.
Former Sen. Sam Nunn ()
March 9, 2005 Former Sen. Sam Nunn spoke to the National Press Club about weapons proliferation. Nunn is co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a non-profit group in Washington that works to reduce global threats from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
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