This Week in National Press Club History

June 20, 1991: Boris Yeltsin, newly elected president of the Russian Republic, speaks at a sold-out luncheon and says 40 percent of his people live under the official poverty line.

June 22, 2005: Actress Ashley Judd addresses a Club luncheon in her role as global ambassador for youth AIDS.

June 25, 1999: CBS anchor Dan Rather, at a luncheon, advises young journalists to learn how to write.

June 26, 1992: Sir Edmund Hillary, the first Euopean to climb Mount Everest, assesses the environmental state of the planet at a luncheon.

This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History and Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, lectures and the oral history project.

For more information on History and Heritage Committee-sponsored events or to join the committee, contact Bill Hickman at [email protected]