Hedrick Smith TOPICS: Government / Politics Current Events Journalism FEE CATEGORY:* Contact for fee schedule TRAVELS FROM: Washington D.C. Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Request This Speaker

Hedrick Smith: Testimonials / Client List

"Your address was an exceptional one - it will meet my test of being memorable without any question. Having you here was the fulfillment of a long held objective, but your perception, insight, clarity and charisma exceeded my expectations."
Thomas L. Stepp, President, University of South Carolina.

"On behalf of the Smithsonian National Associate Program, please accept our profound thanks for your magnificent keynote address…Your insights reverberated throughout the week as successive speakers referred back to your comments. It made us all recall the true purpose of a keynote, and how seldom that purpose is realized….Your remarks inspired others…and we are immensely grateful…"
Amy Warner, Seminar Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution

"You did it again! You held the audience spellbound with your presentation on Russia to the NAM Board of Directors. I only regret you didn't have three more hours to expand on your points and reply to questions."
Sandy Trowbridge, former President, National Assn.of Manufacturers

"Please accept this totally inadequate word of thanks for your excellent, panoramic and engrossing discussion of our nation's unfinished agenda in education.Your analysis made the most powerful case for renewal and reform." Mary Grace Lucier, Exec Director
National Advisory Council on Educational Research

"Your ideas for getting U.S. Foreign Policy 'ahead of the curve' and the "Challenge to America" were received with great enthusiasm…'thought-provoking,' "outstanding,' 'great presentation' were representative comments we heard."
Boyce Nute, Education Director, World Presidents' Organization

"..your after-dinner remarks were appreciated by all…The donors as well as the Hoover Fellows were very impressed, and people continue to comment …on how eloquently you expressed your thoughts. The only problem your success poses for us is that you will be a tough act to follow in terms of future retreats."
John Raisian, Director, Hoover Institution on War and Peace

"Bruce Rider of the American Bankers Association phoned me this morning from Orlando to say that both he and the audience were 'overwhelmed' with your presentation. The 'best they have ever had', Bruce tells me."
Harry Walker, Harry Walker Lecture Agency.

"You were terrific. Thank you so much for being with us."
Governor James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina.

"Thank you for your inspiring keynote address for our spring term. The (flag rank military) students are excited by your thoughts…and prescriptions for solutions to our most fundamental problems. We could not have asked for a more masterful way energize the school to this semester of study."
Rear Admiral J.F. Smith Jr., Commandant, National Defense University

"To say that I am thrilled you were able to be with the Council on Foundations Board last week would be the understatement of the millennium…The Council's board and staff were energized by you…. My deepest thanks. "
Dorothy Ridings, CEO, Council on Foundations.

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