Lovable Losers
Texas billionaire who, in 1992, ran the most successful third-party presidential candidacy since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Who is Ross Perot?
Served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State for both Nixon and Ford.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
Chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, his court made many significant and controversial decisions including Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Earl Warren?
King of rock ‘n’ roll, his first big hit was “Heartbreak Hotel,” in 1956.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Panamanian military dictator overthrown by a U.S. invasion in 1989.
Who is Manuel Noriega?
New York Republican governor who believed he had Truman beat in 1948.
Who is Thomas E. Dewey?
Secretary of State under Obama from 2009 to 2013.
Who is Hillary Rodham Clinton?
Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by George W. Bush in 2005.
Who is John Roberts?
His 1956 novel, On the Road, was the most popular document of the Beat Generation.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
Published The Sand County Almanac in 1949 and advocated for humans’ role in maintaining the balance of nature by following the “land ethic” code.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
Liberal Democrat who was handily defeated by Nixon in 1972.
Who is George S. McGovern?
First woman secretary of state.
Who is Madeleine Albright?
Trump's first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed in April 2017.
Who is Neil Gorsuch?
One of the best-selling artists of all time, this rapper has branched out into songwriting, record producing, film directing, and fashion designing.
Who is Kanye West?
Head of ARPA’s Information Processing Techniques Office, in the early 1960s, he began a program to link together computers over large distances.
Who is J.C.R. Licklider?
Democratic nominee in both 1952 and 1956 only to lose to Dwight D. Eisenhower both elections.
Who is Adlai E. Stevenson?
Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, he introduced the policy of “massive retaliation” in 1954.
Who is John Foster Dulles?
Second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Wife of a Cuban-American, she played a conventional house-wife on her television show, but exaggerated normal situations to hilarious effect.
Who is Lucille Ball?
Member of the Communist Party executed in 1953 for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, but now believed to have been innocent.
Who is Ethel Rosenberg?
Republican nominee for president in 1940 who lost the popular vote to FDR by a 55 percent to 45 percent ratio.
Who is Wendell Willkie?
Franklin Roosevelt’s Secretary of State who confirmed the administration’s new Good Neighbor Policy at the Inter-American Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay in December 1933.
Who is Cordell Hull?
Chief justice of the Supreme Court appointed by Richard Nixon in 1969, he supported mandatory school busing and privacy rights for pregnant women, but restricted affirmative action programs even while upholding them in principle.
Who is Warren Burger?
Star of the film, Rebel without a Cause, he became the icon of unfocused rebelliousness of American youth in the 1950s.
Who is James Dean?
Leader of the extreme right-wing anti-Communist, anti-UN John Birch Society.
Who is Robert Welch?