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Charles OsgoodEmmy Award-winning News Anchor and Author

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A Life in Broadcasting

Veteran CBS newsman and creator of The Osgood File, Charles Osgood is CBS News’ “Poet-in-Residence” and an icon of American broadcasting. Osgood spent 22 years hosting the Emmy Award-winning CBS Sunday Morning, continuing the show’s long tradition of in-depth profiles, great reporting, and wide-ranging coverage of news, art, entertainment, science, literature and culture.

As anchor and writer of The Osgood File radio show since 1971, Osgood combines poignant social commentary with an uncanny ability to find the irony and humor in everyday life, broadcasting to

over 400 stations every weekday morning. The Osgood File has won five Best in the Business Awards from The Washington Journal Review.

Osgood has also won four Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and the International Radio and Television Society Award for Significant Achievement. Additionally, he was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

A long time musician, Osgood has played the piano on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The New York 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 part of the Music City’s 85th birthday celebration.

In his speeches Osgood is charming, funny and may even play the piano. His presentations — an entertaining mix of stories, insights, music and television footage — have delighted audiences for years.

He anchored the CBS Sunday Night News for seven years and has reported for CBS This Morning, CBS Morning News and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Osgood has written numerous books, including See You on the Radio and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail. He was the narrator of the 2008 film Horton Hears a Who!

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General Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). As head of the country’s premier intelligence agencies, he was on the frontlines of geopolitics, the war on terror and the growing cyber challenge. After having served nearly 40 years in the Air Force, he became the longest-tenured NSA director and the number one military intelligence officer in the country, overseeing the entire security community. Hayden also served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center and served in senior staff positions at the Pentagon, at U.S. European Command, at the National Security Council and the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. He was also the deputy chief of staff for the United Nations Command and U.S. Forces in South Korea.

He was featured in the HBO documentary Manhunt, 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.

Hayden is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group and a distinguished visiting professor at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. He is on the board of directors of Motorola Solutions and serves on a variety of other boards and consultancies. In 2013, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) awarded Hayden the 29th annual William Oliver Baker Award. General Hayden is also the first recipient of the Helms Award presented by the CIA Officers’ Memorial Foundation. In 2014 he was the inaugural Humanitas

visiting professor in intelligence studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. His recent memoir, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, has been a New York Times best-seller and was selected as one of the 100 most notable books of 2016.

General Stanley McChrystal is a four-star general, the former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, and the former leader of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees the most sensitive counter-terrorism units. His leadership of JSOC is credited with the 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein and the 2006 location and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called McChrystal “one of America’s greatest warriors.”

The son and grandson of Army officers, McChrystal graduated from West Point in 1976 and trained at the Special Forces School in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was later

commissioned as an infantry officer and spent much of his career commanding special operations and airborne infantry units. During the Persian Gulf War, McChrystal served in a Joint Special Operations Task Force and commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment. He also completed year-long fellowships at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997 and at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2000. He was promoted to brigadier general in 2001.

General Stanley McChrystalFormer Commander of

U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan

General Michael HaydenFormer Director

of the CIA and the National Security Agency

General Peter Pace

USMC, Retired and Chairman, Joint Chiefs

of Staff (2005-2007)

Thursday, February 1, 2018

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

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In 2002, he was appointed chief of staff of military operations in Afghanistan. Two years later, McChrystal was selected to deliver the nationally televised Pentagon briefings about military operations in Iraq. From 2003–2008, he commanded JSOC and was responsible for leading the nation’s deployed military counter-terrorism efforts around the globe, assuming command of all international forces in Afghanistan in June 2009. President Obama’s order for an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan was based on McChrystal’s assessment of the war.

McChrystal retired from the military in 2010. He now serves on the board of directors for JetBlue Airways, Navistar and the Yellow Ribbon Fund. He is also the chairman of the board

for Siemens Government Technologies. McChrystal is the chair of Service Year Alliance, a project of Be The Change and the Aspen Institute. He is also a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he teaches a course on leadership. He is also the author of the best-selling leadership books My Share of the Task: A Memoir and Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World.

In January 2011, General McChrystal co-founded the McChrystal Group. Its mission is to deliver innovative leadership solutions to organizations which help them transform and succeed in challenging and dynamic environments.

General Peter Pace retired from active duty on October 1, 2007, after more than 40 years of service in the United StatesMarine Corps.

Pace was sworn in as 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 30, 2005. In this capacity, he served as theprincipal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council and the HomelandSecurity Council. Prior to becoming chairman, he served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace holds thedistinction of being the first Marine to have served in either of these positions.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Teaneck, NJ, Pace was commissioned in June 1967, following graduation from the United States Naval Academy. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from George Washington University,attended the Harvard University Senior Executives in National and International Security program and graduated from theNational War College.

During his distinguished career, Pace held command at virtually every level, beginning as a Rifle Platoon Leader in Vietnam. He also served in Europe, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and Somalia.

In June, 2008, Pace was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor a President can bestow.He is currently serving on the board of directors of several corporate entities involved in management consulting, privateequity and IT security. He is a member of the Director of

National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group, and hasserved on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and on the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board. Pace served as leader-in-residence and the Poling Chair of Business and Government for the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He is a distinguished visiting research scholar for Fordham University and an adjunct faculty memberof Georgetown University.

Pace is associated with a number of charities focused on supporting the troops and their families. He is chairman of theboard for Wall Street Warfighters Foundation, an organization that provides training support and job placement servicesfor disabled veterans interested in careers in the financial services industry. He is a long-standing member of the board ofdirectors for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, a charity that provides scholarship bonds to children ofMarines or Federal law enforcement personnel who were killed while serving our country. He serves on the advisory boardfor Snowball Express, a charity focused on providing positive activities for children of our fallen military members. He andhis wife Lynne are on the advisory board for Our Military Kids, an organization that supports children of deployed Guardand Reserve personnel with tutoring and enrichment activities.

Pace and Lynne have a son, Peter; a daughter, Tiffany; a daughter-in-law, Lynsey Olczak Pace; and three grandchildren,Linden, Hadley and Holden Pace.

As an award-winning anchor and correspondent, Elizabeth Vargas has traveled the world covering breaking news stories, reporting in-depth investigations and conducting newsmaker interviews. Currently the co-anchor of ABC’s 20/20 with David Muir, Vargas was credited by The New York Times for reinvigorating the newsmagazine format with her “intellectually brave” reporting.

During the historic Iraqi elections in December 2005, she reported extensively for World News Tonight from Baghdad on both civilian life in Iraq and American military involvement there. She has interviewed leaders from around the world including President Bush from the oval office in the White House. Vargas has also anchored ABC News coverage of live, breaking news stories including the deaths of President Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and covering Hurricane Katrina’s devastation from the U.S. Gulf Coast. Vargas won an Emmy in 2000 for Outstanding Instant Coverage of a News Story for anchoring live coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case.

Vargas has also interviewed a wide range of celebrities, from actors and musicians, to business leaders and authors, including: Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Skoll, Sheryl Crow, Madonna, Johnny Depp, Hugh Hefner, Jessica Simpson, Mick Jagger, Drew Barrymore, Dan Brown, Alanis Morissette and Cat Stevens.

In September 2016, Vargas’ memoir Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction was

released by Grand Central Publishing. The book details her struggles with anxiety and alcohol, and tells a powerful story of healing and coping. A special episode of 20/20 aired in conjunction with the book’s release, in which Vargas and Diane Sawyer discussed Vargas’ experiences, reported on the link between anxiety and alcohol abuse, and interviewed both addiction experts and people recovering from addiction.

Elizabeth VargasAward-winning Journalist and Author

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Overcoming Anxiety: A Private Struggle, A Public Recovery

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