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Charles Osgood over 400 stations every weekday morning. The Osgood File has Emmy Award-winning won five Best in the Business Awards fromThe Washington News Anchor and Author Journal Review. Osgood has also won four , three Peabody Wednesday, Awards, and the International Radio and Television Society October 25, 2017 Award for Significant Achievement. Additionally, he was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and the An Evening with Charles Osgood: National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. A Life in Broadcasting A long time musician, Osgood has played the piano on The Premier Sponsors Tonight Show With Jay Leno and performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Pops and the Boston Pops Orchestra. He is a trustee at the School Strings in Manhattan. Osgood made a special appearance at the Grand Ole Opry as Veteran CBS newsman and creator of The Osgood File, Charles part of the Music City’s 85th birthday celebration. Osgood is CBS News’ “Poet-in-Residence” and an icon of In his speeches Osgood is charming, funny and may even American broadcasting. Osgood spent 22 years hosting the play the piano. His presentations — an entertaining mix of Emmy Award-winning CBS Sunday Morning, continuing the stories, insights, music and television footage — have delighted show’s long tradition of in-depth profiles, great reporting, audiences for years. and wide-ranging coverage of news, art, entertainment, science, literature and He anchored the CBS Sunday Night News for seven years and culture. has reported for CBS This Morning, CBS Morning News and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Osgood has written As anchor and writer of The Osgood File numerous books, including See You on the Radio and A Funny radio show since 1971, Osgood combines Thing Happened on the Way to the : Humor, poignant social commentary with an Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign uncanny ability to find the irony and Trail. He was the narrator of the 2008 film Horton Hears a humor in everyday life, broadcasting to Who! Thursday, February 1, 2018

An Evening with Michael Hayden, General Stanley A. McChrystal and General Peter Pace

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Premier Sponsors General General General Michael Hayden Stanley McChrystal Peter Pace Former Director Former Commander of USMC, Retired and of the CIA and the U.S. and International Forces Chairman, Joint Chiefs in Afghanistan of Staff (2005-2007)

General Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general and Hayden is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a distinguished visiting professor at the George Mason and the National Security Agency (NSA). As head of the University Schar School of Policy and Government. He is country’s premier intelligence agencies, he was on the on the board of directors of Motorola Solutions and serves frontlines of geopolitics, the war on terror and the growing on a variety of other boards and consultancies. In 2013, cyber challenge. After having served nearly 40 years in the the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Air Force, he became the longest-tenured NSA director awarded Hayden the 29th annual William Oliver Baker and the number one military intelligence in the Award. General Hayden is also the first recipient of the country, overseeing the entire security community. Hayden Helms Award presented by the CIA Officers’ Memorial also served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency Foundation. In 2014 he was the inaugural Humanitas and Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare visiting professor in intelligence studies Center and served in senior staff positions at , at Oxford University in the United at U.S. European Command, at the National Security Kingdom. His recent memoir, Playing Council and the U.S. Embassy in . He was also the to the Edge: American Intelligence in deputy chief of staff for the and the Age of Terror, has been a New York U.S. Forces in . Times best-seller and was selected as one of the 100 most notable books of He was featured in the HBO documentary Manhunt, 2016. which looked at espionage through the eyes of the insiders who led the secret war against Osama bin Laden, and in Showtime’s The Spymasters, a detailed look at the directors of the Central Intelligence Agency.

General Stanley McChrystal is a four-star general, the commissioned as an infantry officer and former commander of U.S. and international forces spent much of his career commanding in Afghanistan, and the former leader of Joint Special special operations and airborne infantry Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees the most units. During the Persian Gulf War, sensitive counter- units. His leadership of JSOC McChrystal served in a Joint Special is credited with the 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein and Operations Task Force and commanded the 2006 location and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the the 75th Ranger Regiment. He also leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Secretary of Defense completed year-long fellowships at called McChrystal “one of America’s greatest warriors.” Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997 and at the Council The son and grandson of Army officers, McChrystal on Foreign Relations in 2000. He was promoted to brigadier graduated from West Point in 1976 and trained at the Special general in 2001. Forces School in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was later In 2002, he was appointed chief of staff of military operations for Siemens Government Technologies. McChrystal is the in Afghanistan. Two years later, McChrystal was selected chair of Service Year Alliance, a project of Be The Change to deliver the nationally televised Pentagon briefings about and the Aspen Institute. He is also a senior fellow at Yale military operations in Iraq. From 2003–2008, he commanded University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he JSOC and was responsible for leading the nation’s deployed teaches a course on leadership. He is also the author of the military counter-terrorism efforts around the globe, assuming best-selling leadership books My Share of the Task: A Memoir command of all international forces in Afghanistan in June and Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex 2009. President Obama’s order for an additional 30,000 troops World. to Afghanistan was based on McChrystal’s assessment of the In January 2011, General McChrystal co-founded the war. McChrystal Group. Its mission is to deliver innovative McChrystal retired from the military in 2010. He now serves leadership solutions to organizations which help them on the board of directors for JetBlue Airways, Navistar and transform and succeed in challenging and dynamic the Yellow Ribbon Fund. He is also the chairman of the board environments.

General Peter Pace retired from active duty on October 1, 2007, National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group, and has after more than 40 years of service in the served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and Marine Corps. on the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board. Pace served as leader-in-residence and the Poling Chair of Business Pace was sworn in as 16th chairman of the and Government for the Kelley School of Business, Indiana on September 30, 2005. In this capacity, he served as the University. He is a distinguished visiting research scholar for principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Fordham University and an adjunct faculty member Defense, the National Security Council and the Homeland of . Security Council. Prior to becoming chairman, he served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace holds the Pace is associated with a number of charities focused on distinction of being the first Marine to have served in either supporting the troops and their families. He is chairman of the of these positions. board for Wall Street Warfighters Foundation, an organization that provides training support and job placement services Born in and raised in Teaneck, NJ, Pace was for disabled veterans interested in careers in the financial commissioned in June 1967, following graduation from the services industry. He is a long-standing member of the board of United States Naval Academy. He holds a master’s degree in directors for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, a Business Administration from George Washington University, charity that provides scholarship bonds to children of attended the Harvard University Senior Executives in National Marines or Federal law enforcement personnel who were killed and International Security program and graduated from the while serving our country. He serves on the advisory board . for Snowball Express, a charity focused on providing positive During his distinguished career, Pace held command at virtually activities for children of our fallen military members. He and every level, beginning as a Rifle Leader in Vietnam. his wife Lynne are on the advisory board for Our Military Kids, He also served in Europe, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and an organization that supports children of deployed Guard Somalia. and Reserve personnel with tutoring and enrichment activities. In June, 2008, Pace was awarded the Presidential Medal of Pace and Lynne have a son, Peter; a daughter, Tiffany; a Freedom, the highest civilian honor a President can bestow. daughter-in-law, Lynsey Olczak Pace; and three grandchildren, He is currently serving on the board of directors of several Linden, Hadley and Holden Pace. corporate entities involved in management consulting, private equity and IT security. He is a member of the Director of Elizabeth Vargas Award-winning Journalist and Author

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Overcoming Anxiety: A Private Struggle, A Public Recovery

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As an award-winning anchor and correspondent, Elizabeth Vargas has Vargas has also interviewed a wide range of traveled the world covering breaking news stories, reporting in-depth celebrities, from actors and musicians, to business investigations and conducting newsmaker interviews. Currently the leaders and authors, including: Ellen DeGeneres, co-anchor of ABC’s 20/20 with , Vargas was credited by The Jeff Skoll, Sheryl Crow, Madonna, Johnny Depp, New York Times for reinvigorating the newsmagazine format with her Hugh Hefner, Jessica Simpson, Mick Jagger, “intellectually brave” reporting. Drew Barrymore, Dan Brown, Alanis Morissette and Cat Stevens. During the historic Iraqi elections in December 2005, she reported extensively for World News Tonight from Baghdad on both civilian life In September 2016, Vargas’ memoir Between in Iraq and American military involvement there. She has interviewed Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction was leaders from around the world including President Bush from the released by Grand Central Publishing. The book details her struggles oval office in the White House. Vargas has also anchoredABC News with anxiety and alcohol, and tells a powerful story of healing and coverage of live, breaking news stories including the deaths of President coping. A special episode of 20/20 aired in conjunction with the Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and covering Hurricane book’s release, in which Vargas and discussed Vargas’ Katrina’s devastation from the U.S. Gulf Coast. Vargas won an Emmy in experiences, reported on the link between anxiety and alcohol abuse, 2000 for Outstanding Instant Coverage of a News Story for anchoring and interviewed both addiction experts and people recovering from live coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case. addiction.

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T. Boone Doris Kearns Dr. Fareed Michael John Charlie Pickens Goodwin Zakaria Pollan Glenn Rose 2015 2015

Les Jack Gerald Laurie Jaque Graham Charlie Mariel Wexner Kessler McCue Olin Robertson Wyatt Rose Hemingway 2016 2016 2016 2017 2017 2016

Michael Jon David Peggy Patrick J. General Sandel Meacham McCullough Noonan Kennedy David H. Petraeus

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