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General Session Speakers for the NAHC 29th Annual Meeting
& Exposition
NAHC always prides itself in bringing top-flight speakers
to address its membership. The NAHC Annual Meeting Committee,
the NAHC Board of Directors, and the NAHC Strategic Planning
Congress (which meets early each year) help guide the decisions
about who to ask to Keynote the meeting. Another consideration
is the theme of the annual meeting. The theme for 2010
will be: Home Care & Hospice: Pioneers in the New
Healthcare Frontier.
Speakers are selected to inspire and inform the leaders
of the home care and hospice community, and to encourage
them to continue to care for every person as if he or she
was someone they loved. The stated goal is to help industry
leadership become even more efficient and more successful,
improving the quality of care while still treating every
person they see as if she or he was a parent, child, or
someone they love.
 Senator Bob Dole (invited)
Senator Robert J. Dole will be remembered as one of the giants
of 20th Century America. He is a hero in every sense of the
word, a man who has consistently devoted his life to the service
of others. He was raised in Russell, Kansas. He volunteered
for military service and was assigned to the Tenth Mountain
Division in Italy during World War II. He was gravely wounded
on the battlefield and twice decorated for his heroic achievements.
After his recovery, he began a career in public service, first
with ten years in the House of Representatives and then 26
years in the Senate, where he became Chairman of the powerful
Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction of all tax
and trade legislation including such issues as Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid. He twice became Senate Majority Leader,
making him one of the three most powerful people in America.
After leaving the Senate, he became Chairman of the National
World War II Memorial, and raised over $170 million for this
monument to those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect
American freedoms. In 2003, he agreed to serve as Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Caring Institute.
 Senator Tom Daschle (invited)
Born in Aberdeen, SD, Tom Daschle graduated from South Dakota
State University in 1969. Upon graduation, he entered
the United States Air Force, where he served as an intelligence
officer in the Strategic Air Command until mid-1972. After
serving on the staff of Sen. James Abourezk (D-SD), Daschle
was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving
eight years. He is one of the first members of Congress
to serve in a Democratic leadership position in his first term
of office as a Regional Whip. In 1986, Daschle was elected
to the Senate. Two years later he became the first co-chairman
of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and the first South
Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in Congress.
In 1994, Daschle was elected by his colleagues as their Democratic
Leader. Only Lyndon Johnson served fewer years in the Senate
before being elected to the position. Daschle is one of the
longest-serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the
only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.
Currently, along with his Republican counterpart, former Sen.
Robert Dole (R-KS), Daschle serves as an advisor to the law
firm of Alston and Bird, which represents the National Association
for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and other clients. There
he provides strategic advice on public policy issues such as
climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial services
and telecommunications.
Former Presidents Forum:
 Bill Clinton (invited)
Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States in
1992, and again in 1996, President Clinton was the first Democratic
president to be awarded a second term in six decades. Under
his leadership, the United States enjoyed the strongest economy
in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S.
history. Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978,
making him the youngest governor in the country at age thirty-two.
After losing a bid for a second term, he regained the office
four years later, and served until 1992. After leaving the
White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton
Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people
in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges
of global interdependence. To achieve this, the Clinton Foundation
is focused on four critical areas: health security, with an
emphasis on HIV/AIDS; economic empowerment; leadership development
and citizen service; and racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation.
 George H. W. Bush (invited)
George H.W. Bush served as the 41st President of the United
States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political
positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President
of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan
and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R. Ford.
Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of
18, Bush became the youngest naval aviator in the U.S. Navy.
Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency; military operations
were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf at a time of
world change; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union
dissolved two years later. His eldest son, George W. Bush,
was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States
in 2001. Despite his political differences with Bill Clinton,
the two became close and have appeared together in television
ads in 2005, encouraging aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina
and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. |
