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Notable Speakers and Visitors

  • 1856: Abraham Lincoln
  • 1915: Booker T. Washington
  • 1934: Norman Thomas
  • 1927: Kirby Page
  • 1967: Everett M. Dirksen
  • 1967: Charles Percy
  • 1967: Carl Greenberg
  • 1988: Cornel West
  • 1992: James Burke (science historian)
  • 1992: Dan Quayle
  • 1996: William F. Buckley, Jr
  • 2009: Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 2010: Mae (First U.S. Reunion Performance)
  • 2011: Newt Gingrich
  • 2011: Sarah Palin

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