Distinguished Campus Visitors

SMU regularly brings to campus national and international leaders and dignitaries through the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series, Hart Global Leaders Forum, John G. Tower Center Medal of Freedom and other events.

Examples of distinguished visitors to the SMU campus include:

• President George W. Bush and former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and the late Gerald R. Ford
   
• Vice President Dick Cheney and former Vice President Al Gore
   
• Former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell
   
• Former Senator Bob Dole and Senator Elizabeth Dole
   
• Generals Norman Schwarzkopf, Brent Scowcroft and Tommy Franks
   
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
   
• Former British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major
   
• Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox
   
• King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain
   
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Archbishop of Canterbury George L. Carey
   
• Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
   
• South African leader F. W. de Klerk
   
• Former U.N. Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuellar
   
• Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
   
• Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani

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