- George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), …
- Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st United States President. His acts of philanthropy ranged from monetary donations to volunteerism. Hoover donated his entire presidential salary to charity. More >> Hoover is known for being elected president by one of the biggest majorities in the history of the Republican Party. Hoover's administration worked for legislation to protect children, to help small businesses and homeowners, and legislation for the reform of criminals.
- Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having a sexual relationship while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Its repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal, or "Monicagate". The scandal severely affected Clinton's second term and gave Lewinsky significant notoriety.
- William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 - March 8 1930) was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world peace verging on pacifism, and scion of the leading political family in Ohio.
- Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was born in New York in 1921 and moved to California in the 1940s, where she became an actress before meeting her husband, Ronald Reagan. They married in 1952, and had two children. Reagan became First Lady of California in 1967 with her husband's gubernatorial victory, …
- Betty Ford
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Warren Ford, known as Betty (born April 8, 1918) is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and was the First Lady from 1974 to 1977. She is the founder and former chairman of the board of directors of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction. Betty Ford is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.
- Marc Rich
Marc Rich (born Marc David Reich on December 18, 1934) is an international commodities trader. He fled the United States in 1983 to live in Switzerland while being prosecuted on charges of tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis. He received a presidential pardon from United States President Bill Clinton in 2001.
- Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Amvrosevich Shevardnadze, Russian: served as the President of Georgia from 1995 until he resigned on 23 November 2003 in the Rose Revolution. Prior to his presidency, he served under Mikhail Gorbachev as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1990. Shevardnadze's political skills earned him the nickname "Tetri Melia" ("White Fox"), while his former American negotiating partners, …
- Jeff Gannon
James Dale Guckert (born 1957) worked under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon as a White House reporter between 2003 and 2005, representing the fictitious Talon News. Guckert first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, in which he asked United States President George W. Bush a question that some in the press corps considered "so friendly it might have been planted".
- Douglas J. Feith
Douglas J. Feith (b. July 16 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for United States President George W. Bush from July 2001 until he resigned from his position effective August 8 2005. Feith holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College. His official responsibilities included the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, …
- Billy Carter
William Alton "Billy" Carter (March 29, 1937 - September 25, 1988) was the younger brother of United States President Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia. For a time, Carter attended Emory University in Atlanta but did not complete a degree. Carter served four years in the United States Marine Corps then returned to Plains to work for his older brother in the family business of growing peanuts. In 1955, he married Sybil Spires, a young lady from Plains.
- Samuel Fenton Cary
Samuel Fenton Cary, Sr. (February 18, 1814 - September 29, 1900) was a congressman and significant temperance movement leader in the nineteenth century. Cary became well-known nationally as a prohibitionist author and lecturer. Cary was born on February 18, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Miami University in 1835 and at the Cincinnati Law School in 1837 being admitted to the bar the same year, practicing law out of his in office in Cincinnati.
- Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier. In November 1998, Broaddrick gave an interview (transcript) to "Dateline NBC". The interview, broadcast in February 1999, centered around Broaddrick's accusation that Bill Clinton had raped her on April 25, 1978 during his first campaign for the governorship of the U.S. state of Arkansas.
- Louis Fisher
Louis Fisher was the Socialist Labor Party of America candidate for United States President in the 1972 Presidential election and he was "the party's top vote-getting presidential candidate." His Vice Presidential candidate was Genevieve Gundersen. Fisher also ran for Governor of Illinois twice unsuccessfully; the party had run candidates for governor starting in 1896. He also ran for Senator from Illinois three times: in 1956, 1968, …
- Richard N. Haass
R. Haass : In case that wasn't all sober enough, let me add, too, a little bit of analysis, and then we'll open it up for your questions. ... R. Haass : Let me answer the second part of your question about humanitarian intervention and what this says for other areas. I think what we're seeing here in international relations is the evolution of a new doctrine.
- Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (August 7, 1963 - August 9, 1963) was the younger son of United States President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was born five and a half weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean section at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital, with a birth weight of 4 lb, 10 1/2 oz (1.863 kg), and was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital where he died two days later of hyaline membrane disease.
- Jack Herer
Jack Herer is the author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" (ISBN 0-9524560-0-1) (several editions since c.1985), a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis. A former Goldwater Republican, Herer is now a pro-marijuana and hemp activist. He has written two books, the aforementioned "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" and "Grass". There has also been a documentary made about his life.
- Michael Edward Reagan
Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945 as John L. Flaugher), adopted son of United States President Ronald Reagan and his first wife Jane Wyman, is the host of a conservative talk radio show, the "Michael Reagan Show", which is syndicated to radio stations in the United States through Radio America. He was born to Irene Flaugher, herself the tenth child in her family. Irene had an affair with a married man, …
- Hannah van Buren
Hannah Hoes Van Buren, born Hannah Hoes (March 8, 1783 - February 5, 1819) was the wife of the eighth United States President, Martin Van Buren, from 1807 until her death. She was also one of his maternal cousins. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 35, 17 years before her husband was elected to the presidency. Because she died before Martin became President, she was never the First Lady.
- Larry Thompson
Larry Thompson was a deputy Attorney General of the United States under United States President George W. Bush until August of 2003. From 1982 to 1986, he served as U.S. attorney for the northern District of Georgia and led the Southeastern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. The "New York Times" describes him as "a moderate" who is "respected by both Democrats and Republicans." While Deputy Attorney General, …
- Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall is the director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment. Appointed to the position in 1973 by United States President Richard Nixon, Marshall has been re-appointed by every president that followed. Andrew Marshall was consulted for the 1992 draft of Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), created by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad.
- Steven Ford
Steven Meigs Ford (born May 19, 1956 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American actor. He is the youngest son of former United States President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford. Steve Ford attended Utah State University, studying range management, while his older brother Jack studied forestry there. Ford was cast in the 1978 film "Grease" as Tom Chisum, but dropped out before filming began and was replaced by Lorenzo Lamas.
- Donald Nixon
Francis Donald Nixon was a brother of United States President Richard Nixon. He was the third of five children: *Harold Nixon (June 1 1909 – March 7 1933) *Richard Nixon (January 9 1913 – April 22 1994) *Donald Nixon *Arthur Nixon (May 26 1918 – August 10 1925) *Edward Nixon (May 3 1930) He married Clara Jane Lemke and had a son named Donald A. Nixon. In January 1957 Howard Hughes lent Donald Nixon $205,000 to bail out his "Nixon's" drive-in restaurant in Whittier, …
- Harold Nixon
Harold Samuel Nixon was a brother of United States President Richard Nixon. He was the oldest of five children: *Harold Nixon *Richard Nixon (January 9 1913 – April 22 1994) *Donald Nixon (November 23 1914 – June 27 1987) *Arthur Nixon (May 26 1918 – August 10 1925) *Edward Nixon (May 3 1930) Harold Nixon became ill with tuberculosis in 1927. Richard Nixon attributed this to his father's insistence on serving raw milk.
- Charles Washington
Charles Washington was the youngest full brother of United States President George Washington. He was a son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. Charles was born at Hunting Creek in Stafford County (now Fairfax County) on May 2, 1738. He arrived in present Jefferson County, West Virginia between April and October 1780 and founded Charles Town.
- Robert R. Reid
Robert Raymond Reid (September 8, 1789 - July 1, 1841) was the fourth territorial governor of Florida. He was also a Representative from Georgia. He also held several judicial positions. Robert Reid was born in Prince William Parish, Beaufort District, South Carolina, in 1789. He was educated in Augusta, Georgia, and practiced law there. Reid began public service at age 27 as a judge and later served Georgia as an at-large Representative from Georgia to the 15th, 16th, …
- Charlotte Bunch
Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944) she was born in north carolina on october 13th is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements. Charlotte Bunch graduated Duke University in 1966 with a B.A. in History and Political Science. She went on to undertake graduate research at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.. Her studies focussed on education and social change.
- James Gordon Bennett Sr.
James Gordon Bennett (1 September 1795 - 1 June 1872), was the founder, editor and publisher of the "New York Herald" and a major figure in the history of American newspapers. Born to a poor farmer in Newmill, Scotland, Bennett immigrated to Nova Scotia, where he taught bookkeeping, then to Portland, Maine. He was in Boston by January 1820. He worked as a proofreader and bookseller before the "Charleston Courier" hired him to translate Spanish news reports.
- Simmie Knox
Simmie Knox (born 1935) is an African American painter who was chosen to paint the official portrait of former United States President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.
- Dick Wirthlin
Richard Bitner Wirthlin (b. 15 March 1931) better known as Dick Wirthlin, was United States President Ronald Reagan's chief strategist and pollster. Wirthlin was a General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy between 1996 and 2001.
- Herbert W. Kalmbach
Herbert W. Kalmbach (b. October 19, 1921 in Port Huron, Michigan) was the personal attorney to United States President Richard Nixon. Kalmbach was involved in a secret Nixon polling operation hidden from all but his closest senior advisors. Nixon used the poll results to shape policy and campaign strategy and manipulate popular opinion. On December 21, 1971, Kalmbach set up a Delaware shell corporation with private funding to hide Administration sponsorship of polls.
- Alan Fiers
Alan D. Fiers, Jr, was President Ronald Reagan's Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Central American Task Force from October 1984 until his retirement in 1988. His CIA alias was "Cliff." He pled guilty to two counts of withholding information from the Congress about Oliver North's activities and the diversion of Iran arms sale money to aid the Nicaraguan Contras as part of the Iran-Contra Affair.
- Richard Congress
Richard Congress was a candidate for United States President of the Socialist Workers Party. He was one of three candidates the party had that year, the others being Andrew Pulley and Clifton DeBerry. Matilde Zimmermann was the vice presidential candidate on all three tickets. Congress was on the ballot in Ohio, where he received 4,029 votes. Congress was also mentioned in a United States Supreme Court decision concerning ballot access, "Anderson v. Celebrezze", …
- James Meriwether
James Meriwether (1789 - 1854) was a United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia. His father was David Meriwether and his nephew was James Archibald Meriwether. Meriwether was born near Washington, Georgia, in 1789 and graduated from the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in 1807 and was a tutor at the University for a year. After studying law in Elberton, Georgia and gaining admittance to the state bar, …
- Francis A. Nixon
Francis Anthony "Frank" Nixon, father of United States President Richard Nixon, was born in Vinton County, Ohio. Nixon moved to California at the turn of the century after having been frostbitten working as a motorman in an open streetcar in Columbus, Ohio. After working as a farmhand and oil roustabout, he attempted to cultivate lemons outside Los Angeles. Frank was a Methodist who had sincerely converted to Quakerism to marry Hannah Milhous on June 25, 1908, …
- Charles Francis Adams IV
Charles Francis Adams IV was a U.S. electronics industrialist. He served as the first president of the Raytheon Company between 1948 and 1960, and again from 1962 to 1964. He served as the chairman of the Raytheon Company between 1960 and 1962, and again from 1964 until 1972. He was the son of Charles Francis Adams III. He was the great-great-great grandson of United States President John Adams. Adams was born in Boston and attended St. Mark’s School, …
- Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte (January 4, 1887 - May 20, 1960) is sometimes called the father of social security, because he developed the original plan for social security as the executive director of the President's Committee on Economic Security in 1934, under United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Samuel Washington
Samuel Washington is a brother of United States President George Washington. He was born on November 16, 1734 at Pope's Creek, Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Samuel served numerous posts in Stafford County, Virginia including justice of the peace, county magistrate, county sheriff, militia officer, and parish vestryman. He resided at Mount Vernon from 1735 to 1738.
- George W. English
George Washington English (May 9, 1866, near Vienna, Illinois - July 1941, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) was a United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. English received an LL.B. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1891. He was Chief deputy sheriff, Johnson County, Illinois, 1891-1892. Engaged in private law practice, Vienna, Illinois, 1893-1912 and was city attorney of Vienna for a time. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives, …
- Dale Petroskey
Dale Petroskey is the President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He became Hall President in 1999. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1978, and worked in the White House from 1985-1987 under then-United States President Ronald Reagan. In April 2003, one month after the start of the Iraq War, …