Past Events

2013
1/11/13	Richard K. Davis	“Sustaining Momentum: Delivering Consistent, Predictable and Repeatable Performance”
1/23/13	Blaine C. Harden	“Escape from Camp 14: Beyond the Electric Fence: One Man’s Odyssey from North Korea to the West”
2/11/13	Ambassador Vicki Huddleston (ret.)	"The Growing Al-Qaeda Threat in Africa: From Mali to Djibouti"
2/25/13	Max Boot	“The History and Future of Guerrilla Warfare”
3/06/13	Alex Hitz	"My Beverly Hills Kitchen: Classic Southern Cooking with A French Twist"
3/21/13	Philip French	“Implications of Post-Chavez Venezuela”
4/19/13	Symposium	“70 Years on…….Celebrating the “Bomber Boys” of WWII
2012
1/30/12	Sally Bedell Smith	"Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch"
2/13/12	Philip Taubman	“Nuclear Hotspots, Nuclear Abolition”
2/24/12	Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D.	“Myths of Nuclear Deterrence”
3/22/12	Samuel Tadros	"Understanding Egyptian Politics Today"
4/04/12	Mark K. Updegrove	"Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency"
4/19/12	A Tribute	WWII Fighter Pilot Symposium Link
5/02/12	Margaret Sands Orchowski, Ph.D.	“The New Immigration Battleground: Educated Migrants”
5/18/12	Benjamin Cohen, Ph.D.	“The World Economy Today: Would Louis Lancaster be Surprised?”
6/07/12	C. Michael Smith, Ph.D.	"Transitions in Afghanistan and the American University of Afghanistan"
6/19/12	Edward Handler and Laura Dugan, M.D.	The Bronx Project, Finding Effective Treatments for Critical Central Nervous System Diseases (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, and ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease)
7/13/12	Shamim Jawad	Founder and President Ayenda Foundation
8/28/12	Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. and Kathryn Bowers	"Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing"
9/13/12	D. Kenneth Richardson	“Hughes After Howard – The Story of Hughes Aircraft Company”
9/20/12	Excursion to Special Disney Exhibit	Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley (Special Event for CCC & CFR members)
10/10/12	Joe Louis Barrow, Jr.	"The First Tee's Impact on Today's Youth"
10/19/12	Pamela Constable	"Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself" (Special CFR Event)
10/23/12	Rear Admiral Mark L. Tidd, Chief of Navy Chaplains	"Navy Chaplain Corps: Inspiring Hope and Resiliency."
10/29/12	US-China Town Hall	Webcast featuring US Amb. Gary Locke with local speaker Daniel Lynch (click here for info)
11/09/12	Elizabeth Overton Colton, Ph.D.	"Global Foreign Policy Challenges Confronting the Next Administration"
12/11/12	Annual Holiday Luncheon	Speaker: Jim Newton Editor-at-large, Los Angeles Times
12/14/12	"An American Christmas"	Excursion: An exhibit at Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley
2011
1/18/11	Douglas Johnson	"California's next experiment: independent, public redistricting"
2/04/11	Robert D. Langenkamp	"Ten Things You Know About Energy that are Wrong - and Dangerous"
2/15/11	James Robbins	"This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive."
3/01/11	Hon. Christian Prosl	"Austria, Europe, the United States and Beyond..."
3/21/11	Nathan Springer, Major, U. S. Army	"Beyond the Basics: Translating U.S. National Strategy to Tactical Success in Afghanistan"
3/28/11	Professor George Luchiri Wajackoya	Candidate for President, Kenya
5/19/11	Duke Blackwood	An overview of the newly renovated Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
5/26/11	Amb Pierre-Richard Prosper	"The International Criminal Court and Sudan and Libya: Help or Hindrance?"
6/06/11	Sebastian Junger	"War" Independent Article
6/21/11	Lt. General Susan Helms	"A Commander's Perspective"
6/28/11	Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly	CHEESE FACTORIES ON THE MOON: Why Earmarks are Good for American Democracy
7/26/11	Thomas Sanders	The Last Good War - The Faces & Voices of World War II Poster
8/29/11	Special Invitation to:	The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, Simi Valley, CA
9/09/11	Jeff Greenfield	"Twists of Fate" - How a very different American history almost happened, based on his recent book THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED"
9/27/11	Hon. John F. Maisto, U.S. Ambassador, ret.	"Transitions to Democracy and U.S. Policy - Never Easy!"
10/10/11	Rachel Ehrenfeld, Ph.D.	"Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It"
10/28/11	Barry A. Sanders	"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
11/16/11	U.S.- China Town Hall	A national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States
11/30/11	Rod Smolla	“Freedom of Speech in Modern America”
12/08/11	Fred Kavli	Annual Holiday Luncheon Program
2010
1/06/10	Kenneth S. Kosik, MD	"Staying Cognitively Fit" CFIT Website
1/29/10	Ann Louise Bardach	Conversing with Sander Vanocur on the subject of her latest best selling book "Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington"
2/25/10	Ambassador Max M. Kampelman	"Ronald Reagan's Dream of a Nuclear Weapons-Free World"
2/27/10	Michael Corbin	"Iraq: the run-up to next month's national elections and the changing nature of U.S. presence"
3/31/10	Jerry Roberts	"How California Became Ungovernable" Click Here for Noozhawk Article Link
4/15/10	Paul Marshall	"Tension Between Islam and the West"
4/22/10	Pat Cadell	Political strategist and pollster
5/13/10	Mike Tollefson	"Providing For Yosemite's Future"
5/21/10	June Fisher	"When Money Was in Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street"
6/16/10	Annette Ridenour	"Transforming the Health Care Experience"
6/24/10	James Prevor	"The Globalization of Food: The Upside and the Downside"
6/29/10	Amb Kenneth S. Yalowitz	"Climate Change and Security Challenges in the Arctic and Pacific Regions"
7/8/10	Bruce Herschensohn	"An American Amnesia: The Vietnam Stigma and the Current Obama Foreign Policy"
8/23/10	Damon Dunn	"Mad as Hell"
8/31/10	Deborah Lauter	"Religious Freedom-Cyberbullying-Hate Speech-Immigration-Extremism"
9/8/10	Steve Whitaker, Ph.D.	"The politics of forwards and backwards: the final months of the 111th Congress"
9/30/10	Mike Marshall	Executive Director, Restore Hetch Hetchy
10/6/10	CCC Social	Welcoming new members at the SB Maritime Museum
10/18/10	Paul Haenle	"Issues in U.S.-China Relations"
10/27/10	Gil Garcetti	"From D.A to Photographer: OJ Simpson to Women, Water, and Wells in West Africa"
11/4/10	Suzanne Baer, Ph.D.	"Creative Longevity: The Art of Aging."
11/15/10	Rex Ziak	"The Rise and Fall of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Empire Dream"
12/1/10	Amb Marc Ginsberg	"The Battle for Hearts & Minds in the Arab World"
12/8/10	Annual Holiday Program	Speaker: Robert L. Forbes, Publisher of ForbesLife, Author of LET'S HAVE A BITE! A Banquet of Beastly Feasts, Illustrated by Ronald Searle
2009
1/27/09	Mr. Tamim Khallaf	"Iran's Nuclear Standoff: Motivations, Implications, and Possible Future Scenarios"
2/11/09	Jim Maddy	"Association of Zoos & Aquariums Throughout North America."
2/19/09	Melvin Goodman	"The U.S. Intelligence Structure - Prospects for Reform under the Obama Administration."
3/2/09	John C. Hulsman, Ph.D. and A. Wess Mitchell	"The Godfather Doctrine: What America's Favorite Movie Can Teach Us About Foreign Policy"
3/30/09	Thomas C. Reed	"A Political History of Nuclear Weapons, 1938-2008"
4/21/09	Vladimir Kvint, Ph.D.	"Global Emerging Markets and the Formation of new Global Order"
4/30/09	Edward Humes	"Eco Barons - The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet"
4/20/09	Lynn Scarlett	"Changing Climate, Changing World"
6/3/09	John Walters	"Mexico's Drug Problem and Ours"
6/17/09	Martin Anderson & Annelise Anderson	"Reagan's Secret War - The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World From Nuclear Disaster"
7/8/09	Michael Cutler	"Amnesty and the Nexus between Immigration and National Security"
8/20/09	Cdr. Fred Kacher	"Life Onboard the Navy's Newest Destroyer - Its Mission, Its People, and Its Namesake"
9/14/09	Sung Won Sohn, Ph.D.	"Is the Economic Crisis Over"
9/19/09	Venoco Seep Tour	Venoco provides tours giving us a close up view of the "World's Most Spectacular Seeps.
9/29/09	Laurie Firestone	"An Insider's View of White House Entertaining"
10/8/09	Rich Slater, Ph.D.	"Three underwater adventures featuring a Tragedy, a Treasure, and Living Under the Sea"
10/22/09	Robert Haffa, Jr. Ph.D.	"Space Defense and Satellite Warfare"
10/30/09	M. Nadir Atash, Ph.D.	"Turbulence - The Tumultuous Journey of One Man's Quest for Change In Afghanistan"
11/6/09	Keynote Speaker: George Shultz	A Program to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall will be presented at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation in Simi Valley, CA
11/12/09	Fred Gluck	What would real health care reform look like?
12/9/09	Holiday Luncheon	Speaker is Joseph Sohm, "Visions of America: Photographing Democracy"
2008
1/10/08	Michael Corbin	"Syria, The U.S. and the Arab World"
2/11/08	Stuart Taylor, Jr.	"The Duke Lacrosse Rape Fraud: Law Enforcement Crimes, Media Bias, Academic Rot"
2/26/08	Amb. Vicki Huddleston (ret.)	"Memories of Fidel - U.S. Policy in Post-Fidel Cuba"
3/10/08	Kenneth Jacobson	"Challenges Facing the Middle East"
3/25/08	Heather Ewing	"The Lost World of James Smithson"
4/3/08	Lynn Scarborough	"Talk Like Jesus"
4/14/08	Bianca Jagger	"Our World at the Tipping Point"
5/6/08	Marshall Goldman	"Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia"
6/4/08	Amb. Donald K. Bandler	"Building Bridges Across US and International Divides"
6/18/08	CSUCI	A visit the Cal State University Channel Islands Campus
6/28/08	Venoco Seep Tour	An opportunity to learn more about the natural oil and gas seeps near Coal Oil Point aboard the "Condor Express"
7/28/08	Charles Wolf, Jr.	"Looking Backward and Forward: Policy Issues in the Twenty-First Century"
9/11/08	Gayle Beebe, Ph.D.	"The Essence of Effective Leadership: Eight Key Principles I Learned from Peter Drucker."
9/22/08	William A. Chatfield	"The Selective Service and Patriotism"
9/29/08	Michael Hais & Morley Winograd	"Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube & The Future of American Politics"
10/9/08	Margaret Sands Orchowski	"Immigration and the American Dream: Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria"
10/24/08	Kenneth Khachigian	"McCain vs Obama: The Outlook with 11 Days Remaining"
11/6/08	S. James Nelson, Jr.	"Oil Seeps & Sustainable Infrastructure, An Energy Industry Executive Tackles Oil Seep Solutions"
11/18/08	Elie D. Krakowski	"The War on Terror: Are we really at war? The role of perception"
12/1/08	Maxwell Taylor Kennedy	"Dangers Hour: The story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze pilot who Crippled Her"
12/9/08	Holiday Program	Annual Holiday Luncheon Program, Speaker: Judy Pochini: "Italian Christmas in San Francisco"
2007
1/25/2007	Pauline Baker, Ph.D.	"Weak & Failing States: What are they? How do we recognize them? What do they signify? How should we respond?"
2/7/2007	Karna Bodman	"Behind the scenes view of Ronald Reagan's years as President"
2/21/2007	Isaac Cohen, PhD.	"Are We Losing Latin America, Or Was it Ours to Lose?"
2/28/2007	Myra McPherson	"All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone"
3/16/2007	Stedman Graham	"Diversity: Leaders Not Labels"
3/22/2007	Amb. Edward Masters	"Can Indonesia's New Democracy Defeat Radical Islam?"
3/29/2007	Lt. Col. (Ret.) Gordon Cucullu	"Deadly Connections: The Array of Threats Against America"
4/17/2007	Phillip C. Saunders, Ph.D.	"China's Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools"
4/30/2007	Colleen Graffy	"How America is Changing its Image Abroad"
5/23/2007	Gordon G. Chang	"North Korea (plus China) Take on the World"
6/21/2007	Hans van den Dool	"The Netherlands and the United States 225 years of Diplomatic Relations"
7/18/2007	Tony Raphael	"The Mexican Mafia"
8/29/2007	Tanya Biank	"Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriages"
9/12/2007	Lisa See	"Peony in Love"
9/19/2007	U.S. Marine Col. James D. McGinley	"Is the War in Iraq winnable? Why are we there? Is it worth the fight?
10/4/07	Mike German	"Thinking Like a Terrorist - Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent"
10/15/2007	Pat Clark Doerner	"The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand."
10/30/07	Rachel Stohl	"Weapons of Individual Destruction: Understanding the Small Arms Trade"
11/7/07	Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.	"The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada"
11/16/07	Mary Catherine Swanson	"AVID: Advancement Via Individual Determination"
11/27/07	Prof. Benjamin Jerry Cohen	"America's Looming Foreign Debt"
12/6/2007	Annual Holiday Luncheon	Montecito Union School Choir, under the direction of Pam McLendon, Guest Speaker: Art Linkletter
2006
1/11/2006	Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, (Ret'd)	"War Crimes in the 21st Century - Promoting the Rule of Law"
1/24/2006	Rex Ziak	"The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial"
2/7/2006	Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (Ret'd)	"From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism: What Has Changed?"
2/22/2006	Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert	"The Alito Hearing: A Witness Gives His View"
3/1/2006	Walter Kohn, Ph.D.	"The Power of the Sun"
3/23/2006	James P. Owen	"Cowboy Ethics: It's Not About the Hat and Boots"
4/22/2006	General Tony Zinni (USMC Ret.)	"The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose"
5/11/2006	Lynn Scarlett, Ph.D.	"Beyond Conflict: Managing America's Public Lands"
5/18/2006	Noah Pickus, Ph.D.	"Immigration Reform and the Politics of Citizenship"
6/6/2006	Gary Winuk	"Homeland Security for California"
6/15/2006	Frederick W. Gluck	"Providing Affordable Health Care"
6/28/2006	The Channel City Club	Channel City Club's 60th Anniversary Kick-Off
7/12/2006	Arthur Cyr, PhD.	"U.S. Foreign Policy: In Trouble?"
7/20/2006	USN Rear Admiral Len Hering, Sr.	"Important local environmental issues and the future direction of our maritime nation and current Navy Policy"
8/22/2006	Otis L. Graham, Jr., Ph.D.	"Mass Immigration: Taking America Where It Doesn't Want to Go."
9/7/2006	Jeff Henley	"The New Rules: How Innovation and Globalization are changing the Game for Corporate America"
9/28/2006	Alan Zelicoff, M.D.	"Recognizing Global Pandemics - a Collaborative Challenge for the International Community"
10/5/2006	Douglas Brinkley, Ph.D.	"American Presidents as Commander and Chief: George Washington to George W. Bush"
10/17/2006	Dan Taylor	"The Parent Care Solution"
10/23/2006	Barry C. Lynn	"End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation"
11/2/2006	Admiral John B. Nathman, USN	"Today's Navy: Ready and Relevant"
11/29/2006	Henry D. Sokolski	"Three Things We Should Do to Hedge against A Nuclear-Ready Iran"
12/12/2006	Alessandra G. Ranghiasci	Holiday Program

Link to the extended list of CCC Speakers from 1946 through 2006