How the DLC Does It

.....Though the DLC offers a nominal $50 membership to anyone interested, its mass base is minuscule. "There's a New Democrat audience of about 5,000 to 10,000 people who get our stuff on a regular basis," says Matthew Frankel, the DLC's spokesman. And with a nonexistent grass-roots presence, the DLC is generally unknown except to practitioners of "inside baseball" politics. Yet the affiliation of scores of members of Congress has enabled the DLC to establish alliances with Fortune 500 corporate supporters, particularly along the so-called K Street corridor of Washington-based lobbyists and in high-tech enclaves such as California's Silicon Valley.

Once, the Reverend Jesse Jackson disparaged the DLC as "Democrats for the Leisure Class." But no one should underestimate the DLC's role in remaking the Democratic Party. Disciplined and single-minded, working tirelessly to forge alliances between individual Democratic elected officials and business groups, zealously promoting the political fortunes of their stars, and publishing a dizzying array of white papers and policy proposals, the DLC has given strategic coherence to what otherwise would have remained an inchoate tendency within the party. It has become a forum within which like-minded pro-business Democrats can share ideas, endorse one another, and commiserate about the persistence of the Old Guard.

"We're a party that's going through a transition from one ideology to another," says NDN's Rosenberg. "It was 40 years between the creation of the National Review and Newt Gingrich's takeover of Congress in 1994. We're only 16 years into this. Are we challenging old ways and leaders who've been around for a while? Are we being contentious? Yes."

Of course, it is easier to be contentious when you are well financed. And the DLC message of pro-market moderation is just what organized business wants to hear. From its modest beginnings--with a start-up budget of just $400,000 in its first year, cobbled together at fundraisers starring Robb, former President Jimmy Carter, and K Street Democratic eminence Bob Strauss--the DLC patiently cultivated wealthy individuals and corporate backers. By 1990 the combined DLC-PPI operation boasted revenues of $2.2 million, a big chunk of which came from a single source, New York hedge fund operator Michael Steinhardt, who pledged $500,000 a year for three years. (Steinhardt, whose actual donations came to half that in the end, was named chairman of the newly formed PPI's board of trustees, before falling out with the DLC in the mid-1990s.)

One by one, Fortune 500 corporate backers saw the DLC as a good investment. By 1990 major firms like AT&T and Philip Morris were important donors. Indeed, according to Reinventing Democrats, Kenneth S. Baer's history of the DLC, Al From used the organization's fundraising prowess as blandishment to attract an ambitious young Arkansas governor to replace Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia as DLC chairman. Drawing heavily on internal memos written by From, Bruce Reed, and other DLCers, Baer says that the DLC offered Clinton not only a national platform for his presidential aspirations but "entree into the Washington and New York fundraising communities." Early in the 1992 primaries, writes Baer, "financially, Clinton's key Wall Street support was almost exclusively DLC-based," especially at firms like New York's Goldman, Sachs.

The DLC's investment in Clinton paid off, of course, after the 1992 election. Not only did the DLC bask in its status as idea factory and influence broker for the White House, but it also reaped immediate financial rewards. One month after the election, Clinton headlined a fundraising dinner for the DLC that drew 2,200 to Washington's Union Station, where tables went for $15,000 apiece. Corporate officials and lobbyists were lined up to meet the new White House occupant, including 139 trade associations, law firms, and companies who kicked in more than $2 million, for a total of $3.3 million raised in a single evening. The DLC-PPI's revenues climbed steadily upward, reaching $5 million in 1996 and, according to its most recent available tax returns, $6.3 million for 1999. "Our revenues for 2000 will probably end up around $7.2 million," says Chuck Alston, the DLC's executive director.

While the DLC will not formally disclose its sources of contributions and dues, the full array of its corporate supporters is contained in the program from its annual fall dinner last October, a gala salute to Lieberman that was held at the National Building Museum in Washington. Five tiers of donors are evident: the Board of Advisers, the Policy Roundtable, the Executive Council, the Board of Trustees, and an ad hoc group called the Event Committee--and companies are placed in each tier depending on the size of their check. For $5,000, 180 companies, lobbying firms, and individuals found themselves on the DLC's board of advisers, including British Petroleum, Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola, Dell, Eli Lilly, Federal Express, Glaxo Wellcome, Intel, Motorola, U.S. Tobacco, Union Carbide, and Xerox, along with trade associations ranging from the American Association of Health Plans to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. For $10,000, another 85 corporations signed on as the DLC's policy roundtable, including AOL, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Citigroup, Dow, GE, IBM, Oracle, UBS PacifiCare, PaineWebber, Pfizer, Pharmacia and Upjohn, and TRW.

And for $25,000, 28 giant companies found their way onto the DLC's executive council, including Aetna, AT&T, American Airlines, AIG, BellSouth, Chevron, DuPont, Enron, IBM, Merck and Company, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Texaco, and Verizon Communications. Few, if any, of these corporations would be seen as leaning Democratic, of course, but here and there are some real surprises. One member of the DLC's executive council is none other than Koch Industries, the privately held, Kansas-based oil company whose namesake family members are avatars of the far right, having helped to found archconservative institutions like the Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy. Not only that, but two Koch executives, Richard Fink and Robert P. Hall III, are listed as members of the board of trustees and the event committee, respectively--meaning that they gave significantly more than $25,000.

The DLC board of trustees is an elite body whose membership is reserved for major donors, and many of the trustees are financial wheeler-dealers who run investment companies and capital management firms--though senior executives from a handful of corporations, such as Koch, Aetna, and Coca-Cola, are included. Some donate enormous amounts of money, such as Bernard Schwartz, the chairman and CEO of Loral Space and Communications, who single-handedly finances the entire publication of Blueprint, the DLC's retooled monthly that replaced The New Democrat. "I sought them out, after talking to Michael Steinhardt," says Schwartz. "I like them because the DLC gives resonance to positions on issues that perhaps candidates cannot commit to."

A key member of the event committee for the 2000 annual fall dinner was Mike Lewan, who runs a boutique lobbying house that has represented clients such as Oracle and BellSouth. In the late 1980s, Lewan, who joined the DLC because he was "one of those disaffected Democrats," went to work as Lieberman's chief of staff--and promptly introduced the Connecticut senator to the DLC. Today, Lewan helps recruit support for the DLC on K Street. "It's astonishing to me how much support the DLC is getting from the professional Washington people, the lawyers, the lobbyists," he says. "There's a relationship and a trust level that's been built up."

Joining Lewan on the event committee were several dozen of Washington's elite lobbyists, including representatives from the Dutko Group, Greenberg Traurig, the Wexler Group, Verner, Liipfert, and SVP Kessler and Associates, all with blue-chip clients, along with lobbyists for Chevron, Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney, and others. One was Arthur Lifson, vice president for federal affairs at Cigna Corporation, one of the nation's largest health insurers and a company that stands to gain enormously if, say, Medicare were privatized along the lines proposed by the DLC and by one of its founders, Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. "The DLC is trying to bring some fresh ideas to Medicare and to dealing with the uninsured," says Lifson, whose company is listed as a member of the DLC's policy roundtable. "It builds on changes that are taking place in the marketplace, rather than turning everything on its head [like] Hillary Care." Lifson frankly endorses the DLC as a counterweight to "populists ... at the other end of the party."

In 1996 Lieberman, Breaux, and Simon Rosenberg founded the New Democrat Network political action committee. "Our role is to add political muscle," says Rosenberg. In the 1997–1998 reporting period, its first full cycle, NDN raised $1.4 million directly, and another $1.2 million in so-called "bundled" contributions, gathered at fundraisers for individual candidates and funneled through NDN. In the 1999–2000 period, NDN more than doubled its take, raising $4 million directly and bundling $1.45 million more, plus $450,000 for GoreLieberman. Nearly $2 million of NDN's take in the last cycle came in large, unregulated soft-money chunks from companies such as Aetna, AT&T, and Microsoft and from trade groups such as the Securities Industry Association, who helped sponsor a $1.2-million fundraiser honoring Lieberman on February 13.

NDN's brochures sound like investment prospectuses. "NDN acts as a political venture capital fund to create a new generation of elected officials," says the PAC. "NDN provides the political intelligence you need to make well-informed decisions on how to spend your political capital. Just like an investment advisor, NDN exhaustively vets candidates and endorses only those who meet our narrowly defined criteria."

With three full-time fundraisers plus consultants in New York and Los Angeles, NDN runs a prolific schedule, holding more than 100 events last year. Most of them are typical Washington, D.C., money events, with the usual cast of characters from PACs and lobbying houses; a smaller number are held around the country. NDN also holds some large-scale happenings: Last year, its annual legislative retreat was held at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, where members of the congressional New Democrat caucuses mingled with wealthy contributors from the private sector. Even more ambitious was its annual retreat in June, a three-day gathering spread out all over the San Francisco Bay Area, at which no less than 23 House and Senate Democrats met with executives who paid $1,000 each for the event, which was cosponsored with TechNet.

To many up-and-coming politicians, NDN's events are heaven-sent forums at which they can strut their stuff and ring up contributors. Case in point: Tom Carper, the newly elected senator from Delaware. Last year, NDN raised $55,000 for Carper's Senate race. But it provided an intangible benefit as well. "He's a believer," says Rosenberg. "In addition to all the support we gave him, he'd come to a lot of our other fundraisers, and he was able to meet a lot of new people and develop new contacts. That's one of the reasons why so many elected officials come to our events." For politicians like Carper, NDN is a pipeline for campaign contributions. For donors, NDN provides precertification that none of the politicians are noisy populists. "The candidates are validated to people in the room as New Democrats," says Rosenberg.

To ensure that liberals don't slip through the cracks, NDN requires each politician who seeks entree to its largesse and contacts to fill out a questionnaire that asks his or her views on trade, economics, education, welfare reform, and other issues. The questions are detailed, forcing candidates to state clearly whether or not they support views associated with the New Democrat Coalition, and it concludes by asking, "Will you join the NDC when you come to Congress?" Next, Rosenberg interviews each candidate, and then NDN determines which candidacies are viable before providing financial support.

Sitting in his office at the DLC's bustling headquarters a few blocks southeast of the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue, Al From vigorously rejects the idea that the DLC shapes its views to cultivate its donors: "Anybody who's familiar with the DLC knows that we do what we think is right." Even 17 years after the fact, From is impassioned when he recalls the Democrats' crushing defeat in 1984, when former Vice President Walter Mondale lost 49 states. "Robert Kennedy is my hero," says From. "I saw the liberal cause, which I believe in, almost go the way of the Whigs. And I said, How do you take these principles ... and do it so that people will vote for us again?"

....... Representative Adam Smith, for one, worries that with Republicans in control of both the White House and Congress, Democrats will revert to their old ways, thumping the anti–Big Business, pro-government themes that the DLC has fought so hard to suppress. "It's easier to draw a good contrast if you take the approach that on every issue, Bush is kowtowing to the corporations, that he's in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies, that he's in the pocket of Big Oil," says Smith. "Too many Democrats want to say, åVote for me because Exxon is screwing you, Chase Manhattan's screwing you.'" On Medicare, for instance, which is likely to be a defining issue in the current Congress, Smith is concerned that while President Bush and Democrats like Senator Breaux might be able to strike a deal on privatizing Medicare, other Democrats will block it. "I fear that the party now, if the Republicans roll something like that out, will be reflexively hostile to it in order to draw a contrast, to accuse the Republicans of simply not caring and of getting in bed with their friends in the health insurance industry."

On the table in front of him as he speaks is the business card of Vanda McMurty, Aetna's Washington lobbyist and a member of the DLC's board of trustees. "In fact, I was just meeting with a guy from Aetna," says Smith.
Read complete and eye-opening article here.

I haven't done anything with this Millennial Capital guest list(just found it)--

Millennial Capital

I noticed the usual and a 'Global Crossing' connection.

THE PRESIDENT and MRS. CLINTON and Ms. Chelsea Clinton
Mr. Daniel Abraham; Chairman, SlimFast Foods Company Mrs. Ewa Abraham
Dr. David Al-Ameel; Chairman, ATLAN Group Mrs. Martha Al-Ameel; Corporate Secretary, Jefferson Dental Clinic
Mr. Edward Albee; Playwright Mr. Jonathan Thomas; Sculptor (guest)
Hon. Madeleine Albright; Secretary of State Mr. Ricardo Dell'Orto; Chairman, Barter Technologies Corporation (guest)
Mr. Muhammad Ali Mrs. Yolanda Ali
Mr. Robert Altman; Chairman and CEO, Zenimax Media Inc. Ms. Lynda Carter; Actress
Hon. Bruce Babbitt; Secretary of the Interior Hon. Harriet Babbitt; Deputy Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
Hon. Elizabeth Frawley Bagley; Former Ambassador to Portugal and Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State Mr. Smith Bagley; President, Arca Foundation
Mr. Robert Barnett; Senior Partner, Williams and Connolly Ms. Rita Braver; CBS News
Mr. Leonard Barrack Mrs. Lynne Barrack
Ms. Kathleen Battle; Opera Singer Mr. Dean Mitchell (guest)
Hon. Samuel Berger; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Mrs. Susan Berger
Hon. (Sen.) John Breaux, D-La. Mrs. Lois Breaux
Mr. John Brophy; President, Lockheed Martin IMS Mrs. Louise Brophy
Mr. Dave Brubeck; Musician and Composer Mrs. Iola Brubeck
Mr. Sid Caesar; Entertainer Mrs. Florence Caesar
Mr. Benny Carter; Composer and Musician Mrs. Hilma Carter; Retired Language Educator
Dr. Vinton Cerf; Senior Vice President of Internet, Architecture and Technology, MCI WorldCom Mrs. Sigrid Cerf
Mr. Rashid Chaudary; Chairman and CEO, Raani Corporation Mrs. Samia Chaudary
Dr. Vance Coffman; Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Mrs. Arlene Coffman
Mr. Lodwrick Cook; Co-Chairman, Global Crossing Mrs. Carole Cook
Hon. Andrew Cuomo; Secretary of Urban and Housing Development Mrs. Kerry Kennedy Cuomo
Hon. William Daley; Secretary of Commerce
Hon. (Sen.) Tom Daschle, D-S.D. Hon. Linda Daschle; Counsel, Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell
Mr. Robert De Niro; Actor
Ms. Ruby Dee; Actor and Author Mr. Ossie Davis; Actor and Author
Mr. Thomas Demetrio; Attorney, Corboy & Demetrio Ms. Eve Marie Reilly; Attorney, Cook County State's Attorney
Mr. Murli S. Deora; President, Bombay Congress and former Mayor of Bombay Mrs. Hema Deora; Artist
Hon. (Rep.) John Dingell; D/Michigan Mrs. Deborah Dingell; President, General Motors Foundation
Mr. E. J. Dionne; The Washington Post Ms. Mary Boyle
Hon. (Sen.) Christopher Dodd; D/Connecticut Ms. Jackie Clegg; Vice Chair, Export-Import Bank
Ms. Rita Dove; Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia and Special Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Mr. Fred Viebahn
Dr. Ronald Dozoretz; Chairman and CEO, ValueOptions Mrs. Beth Dozoretz
Mr. Todd Eberle; Todd Eberle Photography Mr. Richard Pandiscio
Hon. Maria Echaveste; Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Professor Christopher Edley
Mr. Mark Ein; CEO, Venturehouse Group Ms. Marion Ein-Lewin; Program Director, Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science
Mr. Sahir Erozan; President, Overseas Partners
Mr. A. Huda Farouki; CEO, Financial Instrument and Investment Corporation Mrs. Samia Farouki
Ms. Renee Fleming; Suprano Opera Singer Ms. Rachelle Fleming (sister)
Mr. John Fogerty; Musician Mrs. Julie Fogerty
Dr. John Hope Franklin; James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus, Duke University
Hon. Mary Mel French; The Chief of Protocol, United States
Hon. (Rep.) Martin Frost; D/Texas Mrs. Kathryn Frost
Mr. John Gardner; Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy, AT&T Ms. Nancy J. Rawlings; International Monetary Fund (guest)
Dr. Murray Gell-Mann; Distinguished Fellow and Co-Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute and R. A. Millikan Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Technology Ms. Talia Shire (guest)
Dr. Neil Gershenfeld; Professor, MIT Media Lab Dr. Laura Brewer
Hon. John Glenn; Former United States Senator, Ohio Mrs. Annie Glenn
Hon. Daniel Glickman; Secretary of Agriculture Mrs. Rhoda Glickman; Deputy Chief of Staff, Housing and Urban Development
Mr. Michael Graves; Architect Ms. Lynn Min; President, Shibao International Corporation (guest)
Hon. Alan Greenspan; Chairman, Federal Reserve Board Ms. Andrea Mitchell; Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
Mr. Brian Greenspun; President, Las Vegas Sun Newspaper and President, The Greenspun Company Mrs. Myra Greenspun; Travel Consultant
Ms. Janice Griffin; President, Griffin and Associates, Incorporated
Mr. Vinod Gupta; Chairman and CEO, infoUSA Inc. Ms. Laurel Gottesman; Director of Investor Relations, infoUSA Inc. (guest)
Hon. Carl T. C. Gutierrez; Governor of Guam Mrs. Geraldine Gutierrez; First Lady of Guam
Ms. Julie Harris; Actor Ms. Jennifer Crier Johnston; Actor (guest)
Mr. Laurence Harris; Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Teligent, Inc. Mrs. Susan B. Harris
Mr. John S. Hendricks; Founder, Chairman and CEO, Discovery Communications, Inc. Mrs. Maureen Hendricks
Hon. Alexis Herman; Secretary of Labor Dr. Charles Franklin (guest)
Bono Mrs. Ali Hewson
Mr. Robert Isabell; Owner, Robert Isabell, Inc. Mr. James Reginato; Features Director, W Magazine (guest)
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.; President/Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Special Envoy to the President for Democracy in Africa Ms. Jacqueline Lavinia
Mr. Quincy Jones; Executive Producer, America's Millennium Gala and Multi-Grammy winning Producer, Composer, Arranger and Multi-media Entrepreneur Quincy Jones Media Group Ms. Lisette Derouaux (guest)
Hon. Vernon Jordan Mrs. Ann Jordan
Dr. Robert Kahn; President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Ms. Patrice Lyons
Dr. Said Karmi; Professor of Surgery, George Washington University Mrs. Mary Jane Karmi; Actress, Actors Studio
Mr. Walter Kaye; Former Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army Mrs. Selma Kaye
Mr. Ellsworth Kelly; Artist Mr. Jack Shear; Artist (guest)
Hon. (Sen.) Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Mrs. Victoria Reggie Kennedy
Mr. Kamran Khan; Senior Vice President, Raani Corporation Dr. Hamida Khan; Physician
Mr. Peter Kovler; Director, Marjorie Kovler Fund Dr. Judy Kovler; Psychotherapist
Dr. Raymond Kurzweil; Chairman, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. Dr. Sonya Kurzweil; Director of Playspace for Young Children and Parents
Mr. Robert Langlois; Director of International Relations, Motorola, Inc. Mrs. Julia Langlois; Librarian, Coleman Elementary School
Ms. Patricia Lazak; Financial Assistant to Agnes Gund Mr. James Lazak; Senior Recreational Therapist, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center (brother)
Hon. (Sen.) Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Ms. Alicia Leahy (daughter)
Mr. Jonathan Ledecky; Co-Owner of the Washington Capitals Hockey Team Ms. Marina McClelland; Manager, Marriott International (guest)
Mr. James Levin; Chairman and CEO, JHL Enterprises Ms. Kristy Swanson (guest)
Mr. Carl Lewis; Olympian and Actor Ms. Carol Lewis; Television Broadcaster (sister)
Hon. Ann Lewis; Counselor to the President Mr. Mike Sponder; Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Naval Research
Ms. Maya Lin; Artist and Architect Mr. Daniel Wolf; Chairman, Warm Spirit, Inc.
Hon. Mark Lindsay; Assistant to the President and Director of White House Management and Administration Mrs. Carla Lindsay
Hon. Bruce Lindsey; Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President Hon. Cheryl Mills
Hon. Joseph Lockhart; Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary Ms. Mary Lockhart (sister)
Mrs. Sophia Loren; Actress Dr. Carlo Ponti; Producer
Mr. William Maloni; Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Fannie Mae Mrs. Heidi Maloni
Dr. Robert Maurer Mrs. Barbara Maurer
Hon. Terence McAuliffe; Chairman, American Heritage Homes Mrs. Dorothy McAuliffe
Mr. Paul McCarthy; Executive Director, America's Millennium Hon. Marsha Berry Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady
Hon. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell; Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the First Lady for the Millennium Program Dr. Christopher Lovell
Mr. Bobby McFerrin Mrs. Debra McFerrin
Hon. Judith A. McHale; President and COO, Discovery Communications, Inc. Mr. Michael P. O'Halloran
Mr. Don McLean Mrs. Patricia McLean
Mr. Arthur Mitchell; Founder and President, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Ambassador for the Arts Ms. Virginia Johnson; Former Prima Ballerina; Dance Theatre of Harlem (guest)
Mr. Leslie Moonves; President and CEO, CBS Television Mrs. Nancy Moonves
Ms. Mary Tyler Moore; International Chairman, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Dr. S. Robert Levine; Chairman, Health Priorities Project, Progressive Policy Institute
Mr. Jack Nicholson; Actor Ms. Lara Flynn Boyle; Actor (guest)
Hon. Beth Nolan; Counselor to the President Mr. Dimitri Nionakis
Miss Jessye Norman; Soprano Mr. George Norman; Bell South (brother)
Mr. Dennis O'Connor; Provost, The Smithsonian Institution Mrs. Anne O'Connor
Mr. Edward James Olmos; Actor Mr. Bodie James Olmos; Actor and Filmmaker
Mr. Michael Oreskes; Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times Ms. Jill Abramson; Washington Editor, New York Times
Dr. Dean Ornish; President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito, California Mrs. Molly Ornish
Hon. (Rep.) Donald Payne; D/New Jersey Ms. Denise Banks; Deputy Director for Civil Rights, Department of Agriculture
Mr. Itzhak Perlman Mrs. Toby Perlman; Director, Perlman Music Program Ms. Ariella Perlman (daughter of Itzhak Perlman)
Dr. Robert Pinsky; United States Poet Laureate Dr. Ellen Pinsky
Hon. John Podesta; Chief of Staff to the President Mrs. Mary Podesta
Mr. Sunil Puri; Chairman, First Rockford Group Ms. Jenine Cannell-Puri
Mr. Robert M. Rauschenberg; Artist Mr. Darryl Pottorf; Artist (guest)
Hon. Bruce Reed; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Director, Domestic Policy Council Ms. Bonnie Lepard
Hon. Janet Reno; Attorney General of the United States
Hon. Steven Ricchetti; Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Ms. Amy Blanchard
Hon. William Richardson; Secretary of Energy Mrs. Barbara Richardson
Hon. Richard Riley; Secretary of Education Mrs. Anne Riley
Mr. Dennis Rivera; 1199/SEIU Health and Human Service Employees Union Ms. Maria Alvarez; Consultant
Dr. Maxwell Roach; Legendary Percussionist and Composer Ms. Connie Crothers; Pianist
Hon. (Sen.) Charles Robb; D-Va. Mrs. Lynda Robb; Chairman, Reading Is Fundamental
Ms. Liz Robbins; Liz Robbins Associates Mr. Wayne Rogers; CEO, Synergics Energy Development, Inc. ... Mrs. Valerie Rogers
Mr. Allen Salmasi; Chairman, President and CEO, NextWave Telecom Inc. Mrs. Nicole Salmasi; Board Member, NextWave Telecom Inc.
Mr. Michael Saylor; President and CEO, MicroStrategy, Inc. Mrs. Phyllis Saylor (mother)
Hon. Arthur Schlesinger; Writer, Historian and Former Special Assistant to President Kennedy Mrs. Alexandra Schlesinger
Mr. Bernard Schwartz; Chairman and CEO, Loral Space and Communications, Ltd. Mrs. Irene Schwartz
Mr. Martin Scorsese; Film Director Mrs. Helen Scorsese
Mr. Niranjan Shah; Chairman, Globetrotters Engineering Corporation Mrs. Pratima Shah; Vice President, Globetrotters International, Inc.
Mr. Walter Shorenstein; Chairman, The Shorenstein Companies Ms. Clotilde Alvarez (guest)
Mr. Robert Shrum; Chairman, Shrum, Devine, Donilon Ms. Marylouise Oates; Writer
Mr. Arnold Simon; President and CEO, ARIS Industries Mrs. Debra Simon
Mr. Neil Simon; Playwright Mrs. Elaine Simon
Hon. Rodney Slater; Secretary of Transportation Mrs. Cassandra Slater
Mr. Will Smith; Actor, Rapper and Entrepreneur Mrs. Jada Smith; Actress
Hon. (Sen.) Gordon Smith; R/Oregon Mrs. Sharon Smith
Hon. Jean Kennedy Smith; Former Ambassador to Ireland
Mr. Harold Snyder Ms. Tamar Hirschl (guest)
Hon. Gene Sperling; Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director for the National Economic Council Ms. Susanne Weinrauch
Hon. Robert Stanton; Director, National Park Service Mrs. Janet Stanton
Mr. David Steiner; Steiner Equities Group Mrs. Sylvia Steiner
Mr. George Stevens, Jr.; Filmmaker and Producer, America's Millennium Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens
Mr. Michael Stevens; Producer, America's Millennium
Ms. Maria Tallchief; Prima Ballerina
Miss Elizabeth Taylor; Actress, Activist and Humanitarian Mr. Firooz Zahedi; Photographer (guest)
Ms. Julie Taymor; Director of Theater, Opera and Film Mr. Elliot Goldenthal; Composer
Mr. Howard Tullman; Chairman and CEO, Tunes.com Inc. Mrs. Judith Tullman
Hon. Melanne Verveer; Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady Mr. Philip Verveer; Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Mr. Edward Villella; Founding Artistic Director, Miami City Ballet Mrs. Linda Villella; Director of Education, Miami City Ballet
Dr. James Watson; President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Mrs. Elizabeth Watson
Mr. Mark Weiner President, Financial Innovations (guest of Arnold Simon) Mrs. Susan Weiner
Hon. Togo D. West, Jr.; Secretary of Veterans Affairs Mrs. Gail West; Director of Government Relations, Armstrong Worldwide
Maestro John Williams; Conductor and Composer Mr. Michael Gorfaine
Hon. Anthony Williams; Mayor of the District of Columbia Mrs. Diane Simmons Williams; First Lady of the District of Columbia
Mr. August Wilson; Playwright Ms. Constanza Romero
Ms. Mary Wilson; Author and original member of the "Supremes" Ms. Linda Green; Event Planner
Mr. Joseph T. Wilson; Executive Director, National Council for the Traditional Arts Ms. Kathryn James; Director, Oasis Program
Hon. James Wolfensohn; President, The World Bank Mrs. Elaine Wolfensohn
Mrs. Avis Young; Vice President of Imports and Transportation, Tommy Hilfiger USA Mr. Leroy Young, Jr.; Sales Manager, Garden State Lumber Products
Mr. Pinchas Zukerman; Musician Ms. Amanda Forsyth; Principal Cellist, National Arts Center Orchestra

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