1999
Gerald R. Ford
U.S. President, 1974–77
2000
Story Musgrave
NASA Astronaut
2001
Madeleine K. Albright
U.S. Secretary of State, 1997–2001
2002
Rudy Giuliani
Mayor of New York City, 1994–2001
2003
General Tommy R. Franks (Ret.)
Commander-in-Chief
U.S. Central Command Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2000–03
2005
General Colin L. Powell (Ret.)
U.S. Secretary of State, 2001–05;
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989–93
2006
Tom Brokaw
NBC News Anchor, 1982–2004;
Author
2008
Tony Blair
British Prime Minister, 1997–2007
2009
Fareed Zakaria
Editor-at-large of TIME
Host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”
2011
Tenzin Gyatso
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
2012
Robert M. Gates
U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2006–11
2014
Colin Powell
U.S. Secretary of State, 2001–05
2015
Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State, 2005-09
2016
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States