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The Bet |
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Theodore |
Roosevelt |
The 26th president of the United States. aka: Teddy. |
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Michelle |
Obama |
Former first lady of U.S. aka: Miche. |
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Franklin D. |
Roosevelt |
The 32nd president of the United States. Known as FDR. |
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Edward |
Thomas |
British poet and journalist. |
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Norman |
Rockwell |
American painter and illustrator. |
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George |
Washington |
Founding Father who served as the first president of the U.S. |
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Martin Luther |
King Jr. |
American Baptist minister and activist. |
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Malia |
Obama |
One of Michelle Obama's daughters. |
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Sasha |
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One of Michelle Obama's daughters. |
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Bo |
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One of Obama's dogs. |
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Sunny |
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One of Obama's dogs. |
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Tutu |
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Barack Obama's grandmother. aka: Toot. |
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Ann |
Dunham |
Barack Obama's mother. |
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Barack |
Obama |
The 44th president of the United States. |
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Barryl |
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Barack Obama's nickname. |
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Robert |
Titcomb |
A long time friend of the Barack Obama. |
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Greg |
Orme |
One of Barack's closest friends. |
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Mike |
Ramos |
One of Barack's closest friends. |
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Maya |
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Barack's younger sister. |
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Ralph |
Ellison |
American novelist |
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Langston |
Hughes |
American writer and social activist. |
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Robert Penn |
Warren |
American poet |
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Fyodor |
Dostoevsky |
Russian novelist. |
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D. H. |
Lawrence |
English writer and poet. |
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Ralph Waldo |
Emerson |
American philosopher |
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Marx |
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One of Barack's new acquaintances. |
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Marcuse |
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One of Barack's new acquaintances. |
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Frantz |
Fanon |
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher. |
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Gwendolyn |
Brooks |
African American writer. |
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Michel |
Foucault |
French philosopher. |
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Virginia |
Woolf |
English modernist writer. |
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Mahatma |
Gandhi |
Indian nationalist leader and nonviolence advocate. |
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Lech |
Wałęsa |
Statesman |
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Fannie Lou |
Hamer |
American civil rights activist. |
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Diane |
Nash |
American businesswoman known for civil rights activism. |
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Ronald |
Reagan |
The 40th president of the United States. |
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Alexis de |
Tocqueville |
French political thinker and historian. |
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Walt |
Whitman |
American poet |
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Henry David |
Thoreau |
American essayist |
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Thomas |
Edison |
American inventor and businessman. |
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Wright brothers |
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American aviation pioneers. |
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Jackie |
Robinson |
American professional baseball player. |
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Chuck |
Berry |
American singer |
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Bob |
Dylan |
American singer-songwriter. |
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Billie |
Holiday |
American jazz singer. |
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Abraham |
Lincoln |
The 16th president of the United States. |
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Jane |
Addams |
American activist |
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Harold |
Washington |
American politician |
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Robert F. |
Kennedy |
American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy aka: Booby. |
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Jesse |
Jackson Jr. |
Former United States Congressman from Illinois. |
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Andrew |
Young |
American politician |
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Julian |
Sas |
Dutch blues rock guitarist |
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Craig |
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Michelle Obama's brother. |
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Jeremiah |
Wright |
Retired pastor from Chicago |
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Marian |
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Michelle Obama's mother. |
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Pete |
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Michelle Obama's uncle. |
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Alice |
Palmer |
Illinois lawmaker and educator. |
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Toni |
Preckwinkle |
The current County Board president in Cook County |
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Carol Ann |
Harwell |
Barack's campaign manager. |
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Ron |
Davis |
A field director and petition expert. |
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Santita |
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One of Michelle Obama's best friends. |
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John |
le Carré |
British novelist and former spy. |
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Toni |
Morrison |
American novelist |
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Carl |
Sandburg |
American writer and editor. |
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Emil |
Jones |
The President of the Illinois Senate. |
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Richard J. |
Daley |
American politician and 47th mayor of Chicago. |
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Newt |
Gingrich |
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. |
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Bill |
Clinton |
The 42nd President of the United States. |
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Kirk |
Dillard |
Former Republican member of the Illinois State Senate. |
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James Peyton |
Philip |
A longtime Republican member of the Illinois General Assembly. |
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Bobby |
Rush |
American blues musician |
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Al |
Gore |
The 45th Vice President of the United States. |
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Dan |
Shoman |
Barack's chief senate aid. |
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Carol Moseley |
Braun |
American politician who represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate. |
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Peter Gosselin |
Fitzgerald |
American politician who served as U.S.Senator from Illinois. |
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Terry |
Link |
American politician represented the 30th district in Illinois Senate. |
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Denny |
Jacobs |
An American politician. One of Barack's acquaintances. |
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Larry |
Walsh |
One of Barack's acquaintances. |
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Daniel K. |
Davis |
U.S. representative from Illinois's 7th congressional district. |
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David |
Axelrod |
Former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Obama. |
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Paul |
Simon |
Former U.S. senator. |
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Daniel W. |
Hynes |
Formerly serving as the Illinois Comptroller. |
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Blair |
Hull |
American businessman |
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John F. |
Kennedy |
The 35th President of the United States of America. |
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Lyndon B. |
Johnson |
The 36th president of the United States. |
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Franklin D. |
Roosevelt |
The 32nd president of the United States. |
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Susan |
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Axelrod's wife. |
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Marty |
Nesbitt |
A successful businessman. |
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Anita |
Blanchard |
A doctor. Marty Nesbitt's wife. |
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Valerie |
Jarrett |
A brilliant and well-connected attorney. Michelle Obama's boss. |
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Muhammad |
Ali |
American boxer |
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Sonny |
Liston |
American professional boxer. |
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Jim |
Causley |
An English folk singer |
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Saddam |
Hussein |
Iraqi president |
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George W. |
Bush |
The 43rd president of the United States. |
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Howard |
Dean |
The 79th governor of Vermont. |
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John |
Kerry |
68th United States Secretary of State. |
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Jeremiah |
Posedel |
A deputy campaign director to President Barack Obama. |
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Anita |
Decker |
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. |
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Osama |
bin Laden |
Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda. |
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Sheila |
Simon |
Paul Simon's daughter. |
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Robert |
Gibbs |
A communication director. |
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Jack |
Ryan |
A Goldman Sachs banker. |
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John |
Kupper |
Axelrod's able partner. |
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Michael |
Sheehan |
A distinguished Chair at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. |
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Dick |
Durbin |
A senior United States senator from Illinois. |
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Mike |
Ditka |
A former Chicago Bears coach. |
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Alan L. |
Keyes |
American politician |
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Tom |
Daschle |
The Democratic Senate minority leader. |
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Karl |
Rove |
Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff of George W. Bush. |
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Hillary |
Clinton |
American politician and former First Lady of the United States. |
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Peter |
Rouse |
Served as interim White House Chief of Staff to President Obama. |
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Chris |
Lu |
A veteran Hill staffer assigned legislative director. |
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Mark |
Lippert |
Assigned as a foreigh policy staffer. |
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Alyssa |
Mastromonaco |
Assigned as director of scheduling. |
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John |
Favreau |
A speechwriter. aka: Fav. |
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Harry |
Reed |
A new Democratic leader. |
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Orrin |
Hatch |
Former United States Senator from Utah. |
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John |
Warner |
American lawyer served as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. |
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Robert |
Byrd |
Served as a United States senator from West Virginia. |
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Daniel |
Inouye |
United States Senator from Hawaii. |
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Ted |
Stevens |
United States Senator from Alaska. |
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Tom |
Coburn |
United States senator for Oklahoma. |
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Sam |
Kass |
Obama's family friend and aspiring chef. |
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Mike |
Signator |
Barack's part-time driver. |
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Eric |
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One of Michelle and Barack's friends. |
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Cheryl |
Whitaker |
One of Michelle and Barack's friends. |
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Kaye |
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A program officer at local foundation. aka: Mama Kaye. |
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Wellington |
Wilson |
Michelle Obama's friend. |
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Jamie |
Foxx |
American actor |
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Richard |
Lugar |
United States Senator from Indiana. |
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George H. W. |
Bush |
The 41st President of the United States. |
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Sam |
Nunn |
United States Senator from Georgia. |
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Tony |
Blair |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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Barbara |
Bush |
Former First Lady of the United States. |
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Dick |
Cheney |
Former Vice president of the United States. |
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Donald |
Rumsfeld |
Served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977. |
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Ben |
Nelson |
Served as the 37th governor of Nebraska. |
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Joe |
Biden |
President of the United States. |
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Chris |
Dodd |
Former United States Senator from Connecticut. |
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Evan |
Bayh |
U.S. Senator from Indiana. |
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Charles |
Schumer |
Serving as the senior United States senator from New York. |
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Nelson |
Mandela |
First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist. |
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Desmond |
Tutu |
South African churchman |
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Auma |
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Barack's half-sister. |
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Tom |
Harkin |
Served as a United States senator from Iowa. |
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Steve |
Hildebrand |
The deputy national campaign manager for Barack Obama. |
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David |
Pouffe |
Axe's business partner. |
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Tim |
Russert |
The longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. |
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Paul |
Harstad |
A pollster. |
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Part Two Yes We Can |
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Marvin |
Nicholson |
Barack's travel director and golf-buddy. |
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Reggie |
Love |
Special assistant and personal aide to President Barack Obama. |
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Paul |
Newman |
American actor and film director. |
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John |
Edwards |
Served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina. |
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Penny |
Pritzker |
Barack's campaign's national finanace chair. |
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Juliana |
Smoot |
A tough-talking and experienced finance director. |
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Paul |
Tewes |
The Iowa state director for Barack's 2008 presidential campaign. |
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Ronald |
Reagan |
The 40th president of the United States. |
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Jesse |
Jackson |
American Baptist minister |
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Al |
Gore |
The 45th vice president of the United States. |
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Mitch |
Stewart |
An American political campaign organizer. |
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Marygrace |
Galston |
One of Tewes' outstanding deputies. |
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Anne |
Filipic |
One of Tewes' outstanding deputies. |
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Emily |
Parcell |
One of Tewes' outstanding deputies. |
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Tom |
Vilsack |
40th Governor of Iowa; 30th and 32nd U.S. Sec. of Agriculture. |
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Norma |
Lyon |
American farmer and artist nicknamed The Butter Cow Lady. |
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Edith S. |
Childs |
Made a campaign slogan for Barack's: "Fired up! Ready to go!" |
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Fidel |
Castro |
A Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba. |
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Mahmoud |
Ahmadinejad |
Served as the sixth president of Iran. |
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Kim |
Jong-il |
Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. |
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John |
McCain |
Serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona. |
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George |
Stephenopoulos |
A moderator of ABC. |
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John |
Legend |
American singer |
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Billy |
Shaheen |
A co-chair of Clinton's campaign in New Hampshire. |
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Huma |
Abedin |
Hillary's aide. |
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Oprah |
Winfrey |
American businesswoman |
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Timothy John |
Russert |
American television journalist and lawyer. |
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Tim |
Miller |
American political consultant and writer. |
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Mike |
Fitzgerald |
American baseball player. |
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Gary |
Lamb |
A progressive farmer from Tama County. |
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Leo |
Peck |
One of Barack's volunteers. |
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Marie |
Ortiz |
African-American nurse. |
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Chris |
Dodd |
Former United States Senator from Connecticut. |
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Janet Ann |
Napolitano |
Served as the 21st governor of Arizona. |
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Claire |
McCaskill |
Served as a United States Senator from Missouri. |
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Kathleen |
Sebelius |
Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. |
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Madelyn P. |
Dunham |
Maternal grandmother of Barack Obama. |
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Stanley Armour |
Dunham |
Maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. |
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Jackie |
Robinson |
American baseball player. |
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Jesse |
Jackson Jr. |
United States Congressman from Illinois. |
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Shirley |
Chisholm |
First black woman elected to the United States Congress. |
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Al |
Sharpton |
American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. |
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Richard |
Nixon |
The 37th president of the United States. |
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Lynda |
Johnson |
Daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. |
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James H. |
Cone |
American theologian. |
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Otis |
Moss Jr. |
African-American pastor. |
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Cordy Tindell |
Vivian |
American minister and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Joseph |
Lowery |
American minister in the United Methodist Church. |
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John |
Lewis |
American civil rights leader and politician. |
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Harriet |
Tubman |
American abolitionist and social activist. |
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Fred |
Shuttlesworth |
Baptist minister and a prominent Civil Rights leaders. |
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Jim |
Clyburn |
The U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina. |
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Lee |
Atwater |
A Republican consultant and strategist. |
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Caroline |
Kennedy |
Ted Kennedy's niece. |
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Geoffrey |
Berman |
United States lawyer and federal prosecutor. |
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Jon |
Carson |
Canadian politician. |
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W. E. B. |
Du Bois |
American sociologist |
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Karl |
Rove |
American political consultant and policy advisor. |
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Maureen |
Dowd |
American columnist for The New York Times and an author. |
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Harry |
Reid |
Served as a United States senator from Nevada. |
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Bennie |
Thompson |
Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. |
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Eric |
Whitaker |
Barack's acquaintance. |
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Bob |
Casey |
The senior United States senator from Pennsylvania. |
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Annie |
Oakley |
American exhibition sharpshooter. |
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Louis |
Farrakhan |
Leader of the Nation of Islam. |
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Stevie |
Wonder |
American singer |
| 8 |
Dianne |
Feinstein |
Serves as the senior United States senator from California. |
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David D. |
McKiernan |
A retired United States Army four-star general. |
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Hamid |
Karzai |
Served as the fourth president of Afghanistan. |
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Nuri Kamal |
al- Maliki |
Iraqi political leader. |
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Donald |
Rumsfeld |
Served as Secretary of Defense. |
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Paul |
Bremer |
American diplomat. |
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Saddam |
Hussein |
Iraqi president |
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David |
Petraeus |
U.S. Army general and public official. |
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Abdullah II |
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King of Jordan. |
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Gordon |
Brown |
Prime Minister of United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party. |
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Nicolas |
Sarkozy |
President of France from 2007 to 2012. |
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Angela |
Merkel |
Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. |
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Ehud |
Olmert |
Prime minister of Israel. |
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Mahmoud |
Abbas |
President of the State of Palestine since 2005. |
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Kristen |
Jarvis |
One of Michelle Obama's young aides. |
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Beyoncé |
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American singer |
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Jonas Brothers |
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American pop rock band. |
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Tim |
Kaine |
Serving as the junior United States senator from Virginia. |
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Beau |
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One of Joe Biden's sons. |
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Hunter |
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One of Joe Biden's sons. |
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Jill |
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Joe Biden's second wife. |
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Ashley |
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A social worker in Wilmington. |
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Sarah |
Palin |
Served as the ninth governor of Alaska. |
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Henry |
Paulson |
The 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury. aka: Hank. |
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LeBron |
James |
American professional basketball player for the LA Lakers. |
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Jerry |
Seinfeld |
American stand-up comedian |
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Ben |
Bernanke |
An economist served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve. |
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Chris |
Cox |
Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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Austan |
Goolsbee |
Barack's longtime economic advisor. |
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Jason |
Furman |
American economist |
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Paul |
Volcker |
Former Federal Reserve chairman. |
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Larry |
Summers |
Former Clinton's Treasury secretary. |
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Warren |
Buffett |
A legendary investor. |
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Ron |
Klain |
American attorney |
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Thomas E. |
Donilon |
The 22nd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration. |
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Anita |
Dunn |
American political strategist. |
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Nancy |
Pelosi |
Served as the 52nd speaker of the U.S. House of Representative. |
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Tom |
Coburn |
Served as a United States senator for Oklahoma. |
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Rick |
Davis |
McCain's campaign manager. |
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Joshua |
Bolten |
Served as the White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President Bush. |
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Dick |
Cheney |
Served as the 46th vice president of the United States. |
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John |
Boehner |
53rd speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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Mitch |
McConnell |
Serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky. |
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Richard |
Shelby |
United States Senator from Alabama. |
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Spencer |
Bachus |
Former U.S. Representative for the state of Alabama. |
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Barnett |
Frank |
Served as U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts. |
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Miles |
Davis |
American trumpeter |
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John |
Coltrane |
American saxophonist |
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James |
Meredith |
American civil rights activist |
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James Charles |
Lehrer |
American journalist |
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Joe |
Wurzelbacher |
A plumber. |
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Sean |
Hannity |
American talk show host |
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Rush |
Limbaugh |
American conservative political commentator. |
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Saul |
Alinsky |
American community activist and political theorist. |
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Bill |
Ayers |
Leader of the Weather Underground militant group. |
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Shepard |
Fairey |
American street artist |
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Jeff |
Gilbert |
Barack's acquaintance. |
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Part Three Renegade |
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Queen Victoria |
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Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. |
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Barbara |
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One of President Bush's daughters. |
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Jenna |
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One of President Bush's daughters. |
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Rahm |
Emanuel |
Former fundraiser for Richard M. Daley. |
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Olivia |
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Plouffe's wife. |
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John |
Podesta |
Former Clinton's Chief of Staff. |
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Tim |
Geithner |
Larry Summer's former deputy. |
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Bob |
Rubin |
Larry Summer's predecessor and mentor. |
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Cornel |
West |
African-American studies professor. |
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Christina |
Romer |
Former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. |
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Peter |
Orszag |
Served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. |
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Jared |
Bernstein |
A left-leaning labor economist. |
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Gene |
Sterling |
Served as Bill Clinton's director of NEC. |
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Austan Dean |
Goolsbee |
American economist and writer. |
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Jason |
Furman |
American economist |
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Robert |
Gates |
Served as Secretary of Defense under Obama's administration. |
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Condoleeza |
Rice |
Served as the Secretary of State. |
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Ryan |
Crocker |
Serves as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. |
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Dwight D. |
Eisenhower |
Served as the 34th president of the United States. |
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James |
Baker |
American attorney |
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Colin |
Powell |
American politician |
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Brent |
Scowcroft |
The 9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor. |
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Jim |
Jones |
American preacher |
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Susan |
Rice |
U.S. ambassador to the UN under Obama administration. |
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Leon |
Panetta |
Served as the director of CIA under Obama administration. |
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Dennis |
Blair |
Served as the director of National Intelligence. |
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Tom |
Donilon |
Served as deputy national security advisor. |
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Denis |
McDonough |
Served as one of the assistant deputies of the NSC. |
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Ben |
Rhodes |
Served as one of the assistant deputies of the NSC. |
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Samantha |
Power |
Administrator of the U.S Agency for International Development. |
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Doris Kearns |
Goodwin |
American biographer and historian. |
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Eric |
Holder |
Attorney General under Obama administration. |
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Dolley |
Madison |
Hosted the first inaugural ball in the new capital. |
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Andrew |
Jackson |
Served as the seventh President of the United States. |
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Robert |
Frost |
American poet; 4x recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. |
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Sammy |
Davis Jr. |
American singer and actor. |
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Dave |
Beach |
The leader of Obama's security team. |
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Chelsea |
Clinton. |
The only child of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. |
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Yvonne |
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Marian's sister-in-law. |
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Sarah |
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Barack's father's stepmother. |
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T. D. |
Jakes |
A Dallas pastor. |
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Michael |
Chertoff |
Served as Pres. Bush's secretary of homeland security. |
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Mrs. |
Cheney |
Vice-President Cheney's wife. |
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Aretha |
Franklin |
American singer |
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John |
Roberts |
Served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. |
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Vicki |
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Teddy Kennedy's wife. |
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Beyonce |
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American singer |
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Monet |
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A French painter. |
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Paul |
Cezanne |
A French artist and Post-Impressionist painter. |
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Samuel |
Alito |
US Supreme Court justice since 2006. |
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Lilly |
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Barack's friend. |
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Christy |
Romer |
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. |
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John Maynard |
Keynes |
An English economist and philosopher. |
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Shaun |
Donovan |
Former head of NY City's Dept. of Housing Preservation and Dev't. |
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Steve |
Rattner |
American investor |
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Ron |
Bloom |
A former investment banker. |
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Herbert |
Hoover |
Served as the 31st president of the United States. |
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Walter |
Cronkite |
An American broadcast journalist. |
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Ayn |
Rand |
Russian-born American writer and philosopher. |
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Aaron |
Burr |
Served as the third vice president of the United States. |
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Harry S. |
Truman |
The 33rd president of the United States. |
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Brian |
Mosteller |
Organizer of Barack's daily events. |
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Katie |
Johnson |
Served as Barack's unofficial gatekeepers. |
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Pete |
Souza |
White House photographer. |
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Ray |
Rogers |
One of a navy valets who was assigned to the oval office. |
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Quincy |
Jackson |
One of a navy valets who was assigned to the oval office. |
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Nate |
Emory |
One who set up lecterns prompters and video shoots. |
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Luke |
Emory |
One who set up lecterns prompters and video shoots. |
|
Barbara |
Swann |
One who brought the mail each day. |
|
Steve |
Rochon |
The chief usher. |
|
Sam |
Sutton |
One of a navy valets. |
|
Cristeta |
Comerford |
A Filipino-American appointed as the White House executive chef. |
|
Buddy |
Carter |
Serving as the U.S. Rep. for Georgia's 1st congressional district. |
|
Dave |
Obey |
Democratic House Appropriation Committee chair. |
|
Phil |
Shiliro |
A former senior House Democratic staffer. |
|
David |
Koch |
An American businessman |
|
Charles |
Koch |
An American billionaire and oligarch. |
|
Jude |
Gregg |
A senator from New Hampshire. |
|
Charlie |
Crist |
Florida governor. |
|
Susan |
Collins |
Served as the senior United States senator from Maine. |
|
Olympia |
Snowe |
American politician; U.S. Senator for Maine. |
|
Arlen |
Specter |
Served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. |
| 12 |
Nicole |
Brandon |
A member of the prestigious “Transformational Leadership Council”. |
|
William |
McKinley |
The 25th president of the United States. |
|
Rick |
Santelli |
A CNBC business comentator. |
|
Benjamin |
Franklin |
One of the foremost of the American Founding Fathers. |
|
Thomas |
Jefferson |
Founding Father who served as the 3rd president of the U. S. |
|
Sheila |
Bair |
Chairman of the U. S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. |
|
Stephen |
Harper |
The 22nd prime minister of Canada. |
|
Sam |
Kass |
Hired as Obama's cook. |
|
Cornell |
McClellan |
Barack's longtime athletic trainer. |
|
Michael |
Jordan |
An American professional basketball player and businessman. |
|
Kobe |
Byant |
An American professional basketball player. |
|
Denzel |
Washington |
An American actor |
|
Lloyd |
Blankfein |
An American investment banker. |
|
James |
Dimon |
An American billionaire businessman and banker. |
|
Edward |
Liddy |
American businessman who was chairman of the Allstate Corp. |
|
Richard |
Wagoner |
American businessman and CEO of General Motors. |
|
Brian |
Deese |
The 13th Director of the National Economic Council. |
|
Sergio |
Marchionne |
An Italian-Canadian businessman. |
|
Deborah |
Stabenow |
Served as the senior United States senator from Michigan. |
| 13 |
Thomas |
Daschle |
American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota. |
|
Kari |
|
McDonoufg's wife. |
|
Matt |
Flavin |
A navy veteran served as White House veterans affair staffer. |
|
Ted |
Koppel |
British-born American broadcast journalist. |
|
Denny |
Blair |
Former Navy Admiral in-charged of Pacific Command. |
|
Ray |
Odierno |
American military officer. |
|
Mike |
Mullen |
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
|
Bruce |
Riedel |
Former CIA analyst and Middle East expert. |
|
James |
Cartwright |
Mullen's vice-chairman. aka: Hoss. |
|
Stanley |
McChrystal |
The director of the Joint Chiefs of staff. |
|
Abu Musab |
al-Zarqawi |
A Jordanian who ran a terrorist training camp. |
|
Matt |
Flavin |
Served as White House veteran affairs staffer. |
|
Alan |
Greenspan |
Former Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States. |
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Part Four The Good Fight |
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Luiz Inacio Lula |
da Silva |
Brazil's president. |
|
Dmitry |
Medvedev |
Deputy Chairman of Security Council of Russian Federation. |
|
Vladimir |
Putin |
Former KGB officer. |
|
Kgalema |
Motlanthe |
Former President of South Africa. |
|
Jacob |
Zuma |
The leader of Mandela's Party. |
|
Manmohan |
Singh |
The Prime Minister of India. |
|
Deng |
Xiaoping |
Served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China. |
|
Mao |
Zedong |
Former President of the People's Republic of China. |
|
Hu |
Jintao |
Served as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. |
|
Wen |
Jintao |
China's Chief economic policy maker. |
|
Michael |
McFaul |
NSC senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs. |
|
Boris |
Yeltsin |
Served as the 1st President of Russia. |
|
Aleksandr |
Solzhenitsyn |
A dessident writer. |
|
Bill |
Burns |
The State Department's undersecretary for political affairs. |
|
Elizabeth II |
|
Queen of the United Kingdom. |
|
Recep Tayyip |
Erdogan |
Served as the 12th and current president of Turkey. |
|
Anders |
Rasmussen |
Danish Prime Minister. |
|
Vaclav |
Klaus |
Czech President. |
| 15 |
Richard |
Phillips |
A courageous and levelheaded Vermonter. |
|
Lee |
Hamilton |
An Indiana congressman. |
|
Abd |
al-Wahhab |
Arabian Islamic scholar |
|
Adel |
al-Jubeir |
Saudi ambassador to the United States. |
|
Gamal Abdel |
Nasser |
A charismatic and urbane army colonel. |
|
Muammar |
Gadaffi |
Libyan politician |
|
Anwar |
Sadat |
Nasser's successor. |
|
Hosni |
Mubarak |
Former president of Egypt. |
|
Elie |
Wiesel |
A writer and novel laureate. |
|
Charles |
Payne |
American journalist. |
|
Bob |
Dole |
Former majority leader of the United States senate. |
| 16 |
Teddy Jr. |
|
Ted Kennedy's son. |
|
Theodore |
Roosevelt |
The 26th president of the United States. aka: Teddy. |
|
Laura |
Klitzka |
A cancer victim from Green Bay |
|
Peter |
|
Laura Klitzka's husband. |
|
Jeanne |
Lambrew |
The Director of the HHS office of Health Reform. |
|
Nancy-Ann |
DeParle |
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff. |
|
Jim |
Messina |
Deputy Chief of Staff. |
|
Harry |
Waxman |
A congressman from California. |
|
Max |
Baucus |
Former United States Ambassador to China. |
|
Chuck |
Grassley |
A senator from Iowa. |
|
Gerald |
Ford |
The 38th president of the United States. |
|
David |
Souter |
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
|
Elena |
Kagan |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
|
Diana |
Wood |
Director of the American Law School. |
|
Sonia |
Sotomayor |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
|
Antonin |
Scalia |
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
|
Henry Louis |
Gates Jr. |
American literary critic |
|
James |
Crowley |
A local police officer. |
|
James |
Simas |
An in-house polling guru. |
|
Ron |
Kirk |
A United States trade representative. |
| 17 |
Frank |
Luntz |
A well-known republican stratagist. |
|
Jim |
DeMint |
A former United States senator from South Carolina. |
|
Glenn |
Beck |
A conservative media personality. |
|
Patrick Joseph |
Kennedy |
Former United States representative from Rhode Island. |
|
Joe |
Wilson |
A Republican congressman from South Carolina. |
|
Marygrace |
Landrieu |
Former United States senator from Louisiana. |
|
Joe |
Lieberman |
Former United States senator from Connecticut. |
|
Deval |
Patrick |
Served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts. |
|
Martha |
Coakley |
Former Attorney General from Massachusetts. |
|
Scott |
Brown |
Served as the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. |
|
Dana |
Milbank |
A Washington Post columnist. |
|
Carol |
Keehan |
A soft-spoken |
|
Baron |
Hill |
Served as U.S. representative from 9th district of Indiana. |
|
Earl |
Pomeroy |
Served as U.S. representative from North Dakota. |
|
Bart |
Stupak |
Serves as U.S. representative from Michigan. |
|
Betsy |
Markey |
Served as U.S. representative from 4th district of Colorado. |
|
John |
Boccieri |
Former Ohio State senator. |
|
Patrick |
Murphy |
Served as the 32nd U.S. undersecretary of the Army. |
|
Tom |
Perriello |
Former U.S. reresentative from the 5th district of Virginia. |
|
Zach |
|
Rahm's son. |
|
|
|
Part Five The World aAs It Is |
| 18 |
Lindsey |
Graham |
Serving as the senior U.S. senator from South Carolina. |
|
Karl |
Eikenberry |
Former ambassador of U.S. to Afghanistan. |
|
Douglas |
Lute |
An NSC deputy. |
|
Douglas |
MacArthur |
American military leader served as General of the U.S. Army. |
|
William |
Westmoreland |
A United States Army General. |
|
Reinhold |
Neibuhr |
American theologian |
|
Esperanza |
Spalding |
A young jazz artist. |
| 19 |
Reza |
Pahlavi |
A former Shah of Iran. |
|
Ayatollah |
Khomeini |
Former Supreme leader of Iran. |
|
Ayatollah Ali |
Khamenei |
Khomeini's successor. |
|
Mohammad |
Khatami |
Served as the 5th president of Iran. |
|
Mahmound |
Ahmadinejad |
Served as the 6th president of Iran. |
|
Mir-Hossein |
Mousavi |
Served as the 49th and last Prime Minister of Iran. |
|
Leo |
Tolstoy |
A Russian writer. |
|
Pyotr Ilyich |
Tchaikovsky |
A Russian composer. |
|
Mikhail |
Gorbachev |
Former President of the Soviet Union. |
|
Garry |
Kasparov |
A chess master. |
|
Anatoly |
Sobchak |
Former Governor of St. Petersburg. |
|
Viktor |
Yushchenko |
Served as the 3rd President of Ukraine. |
|
Svetlana |
|
Medvedev's wife. |
|
Ilya |
|
Svetlana and Medvedev's son. |
|
Sergey |
Lavrov |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. |
|
Bashar |
al-Assad |
Served as the 19th President of Syria. |
|
Saadi |
Shirazi |
A Persian poet. |
|
Gary |
Samore |
A professor in the Practice of Politics in Brandeis University. |
|
Gary |
Locke |
A commerce secretary under Obama's administration. |
|
Pat |
Buchanan |
Former White House Communications director. |
|
Yukio |
Hatoyama |
Former Prime Minister of Japan. |
|
Akihito |
|
Reigned as the 125th Emperor of Japan. |
|
Michiko |
|
Served as the Empress consort of Japan as the wife of Akihito. |
|
Thein |
Sein |
Myanmar's Prime Minister. |
|
Dean |
Martin |
American singer. |
|
Stevie |
Wonder |
American singer-songwriter. |
| 21 |
Carol |
Browner |
Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
|
Lisa P. |
Jackson |
The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
|
Steven |
Chu |
Served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy. |
|
Cass |
Sunstein |
Served as a resident cost-benefit expert. |
|
Ray |
LaHood |
Served as the 16th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. |
|
Michele |
Bachman |
Former U.S. representative from Minnesotta. |
|
Barbara |
Boxer |
Former U.S. senator from California. |
|
Ban |
Ki-moon |
Former Secretary General of the United States. |
|
Lars Lokke |
Rasmussen |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. |
|
|
|
Part Six In The Barrell |
| 22 |
Umar Farrouk |
Abdulmutallab |
A Nigerian terrorist. |
|
Neil |
Barofsky |
Served as special inspector general to monitor TARP. |
|
David |
Cameron |
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
|
Wolfgang |
Schauble |
A member of the German National Assembly. |
|
Hilda |
Solis |
Secretary of Labor under Obama's administration. |
|
Arne |
Duncan |
Secretary of Education under Obama's administration. |
|
Norm |
Eisen |
Barak's special counsel for ethics and government reforms. |
|
Mona |
Sutphen |
Deputy Chief of Staff under Obama's administration. |
|
Patrick |
Gaspard |
A political director. |
|
Cecilia |
Munoz |
Director of intergovernmental affairs. |
|
Lisa |
Brown |
A staff secretary. |
|
Nancy |
Sutley |
Head of the council on Environmental Quality. |
|
Maisy |
Biden |
Joe Biden's granddaughter. |
|
James |
Baldwin |
American writer. |
|
Eric |
Lander |
Co-chairman of Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. |
|
Meryl |
Streep |
American acrtress. |
|
Jennifer |
Lopez |
American actress |
|
Justin |
Timberlake |
American singer-songwriter. |
|
Leon |
Bridges |
American soul singer-songwriter and record producer. |
|
B.B. |
King |
American blues singer-songwriter. |
|
Lin-Manuel |
Miranda |
American songwriter |
|
Alexander |
Hamilton |
Founding Fathers of the U.S. served as the 1st Sec. of Treasury. |
|
Paul |
McCartney |
English singer |
| 23 |
Lisa |
Murkowski |
U.S. senator from Alaska. |
|
Thad |
Allen |
U.S. Coast Guard commandant admiral. |
|
Ken |
Salazar |
Secretary of the Interior. |
|
Bobby |
Jindall |
Former congressman and health policy expert. |
|
Felipe |
Calderon |
Former President of Mexico. |
|
John Paul |
Stevens |
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
|
Bob |
Riley |
Former Governor of Alabama. |
|
Tony |
Hayward |
Former chief executive of oil and energy company BP. |
|
Carl-Henric |
Svanberg |
Swedish businessman and current chairman of Volvo. |
|
Fen |
Feinberg |
American attorney specialing in mediation. |
|
Bob |
Dudley |
BP's managing director. |
|
Faisal |
Shahzad |
Pakistan-American man faces terrorism. |
|
Richard |
Holbrooke |
Former ambassador to the United Nations. |
|
Khalid |
Sheikh Mohamad |
One of the self-professed masterminds behind the 9/11 attack. |
|
Rudy |
Giuliani |
Former mayor of New York. |
|
Zacarias |
Moussaoui |
Member of al-Qaeda who was one of the planners of 9/11 attacks. |
|
John |
Mitchell |
Former U.S. attorney general. |
|
Liz |
Cheney |
Dick Cheney's daughter. |
|
Allison |
Davis |
American educator |
| 24 |
Mahatma |
Gandhi |
An Indian lawyer. |
|
Gursharan |
Kaur |
Spouse of the former prime minister of India Manmahon Singh. |
|
Rajiv |
Gandhi |
Former minister of India. |
|
Sonia |
Gandhi |
An Italian widow of Rajiv Gandhi. |
|
Rahul |
Gandhi |
Former member of the Kok Sabha. |
|
Jawaharlal |
Nehru |
India's 1st prime minister. |
|
Indira |
Gandhi |
Served as the 3rd prime minister of India. |
|
Jon |
Kyl |
A conservative senator from Arizona. |
|
James |
Amos |
A Marine commandant. |
|
Brian |
Bond |
A gay activist served as the principal liaison to the community. |
|
|
|
Part Seven On The High Wirw |
| 25 |
Yasser |
Arafat |
Former President of the State of Palestine. |
|
Menachem |
Begin |
The 6th Prime Minister of Israel. |
|
Yitzhak |
Rabin |
The 5th Prime Minister of Israel. |
|
Shimon |
Peres |
The 8th Prime Minister of Israel. |
|
Benjamin |
Netanyahu |
Serving as the prime minister of Israel since Dec. 2022. aka: Bibi. |
|
Ehud |
Barak |
Served as the tenth prime minister of Israel. |
|
Ariel |
Sharon |
Served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel. |
|
Philip |
Roth |
An American novelist and short story writer. |
|
Saul |
Bellow |
A Canadian–American writer. |
|
Norman |
Mailer |
An American novelist |
|
Martin |
Buber |
A German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian. |
|
Rashid |
Khalidi |
A Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East. |
|
King |
Hussein |
Former King of Jordan. |
|
Dennis |
Ross |
Former U.S. Director of Policy Planning. |
|
Gayle |
Smith |
Former Administrator of the U.S. Agency and International Development. |
|
Jeremy |
Weinstein |
Professor of Political Science at Stanford. |
|
Mohamed |
Bouazizi |
A street vendor who set himself on fire. |
|
Zine |
el Abidine |
Served as the 2nd president of Tunisia. aka: Ben Ali. |
|
Frank |
Wisner |
Former U.S. ambassador to Egypt. |
|
Abdullah |
al Saud |
Former King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. |
|
Abdullah II |
|
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. |
|
Jonathan |
Pollard |
U.S. civilian intelligence analyst turned Israeli spy. |
|
Omar |
Suleiman |
An American Muslim scholar |
|
Mohamed |
bin Zayed |
The 3rd president of the United Arab Emirates. |
|
King |
Hamad |
The King of Bahrain. |
|
Bashar |
al-Assad |
Served as the 19th president of Syria. |
|
Isa bin Salman |
Al Khalifa |
The first emir of Bahrain. |
| 26 |
Dilma |
Rousseff |
Served as the 36th president of Brazil. |
|
Carter |
Ham |
Served as the 2nd commander of United States Africa Command. |
|
Sebastian |
Piñera |
The 35th and 37th president of Chile. |
|
Cecilia Morel |
Montes |
Sebastian Pinera's wife. |
|
J. Christopher |
Stevens |
American diplomat |
|
Alan |
Simpson |
Former Wyoming senator. |
|
Donald |
Trump |
Served as the 45th president of the United States. |
|
Laura |
Ingraham |
American radio and television host. |
|
Anderson |
Cooper |
An American broadcast journalist and political commentator. |
| 27 |
Michael |
Morell |
Deputy Director of the CIA. |
|
Ibrahim |
Saeed Ahmed |
A Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist. aka: Abu Ahmed. |
|
William H. |
McRaven |
The 9th commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command. |
|
Benito |
Mussolini |
Italian politician who founded and led the National Fascist Party. |
|
Raymond Allen |
Davis |
Former United States Army soldier and contractor with the CIA. |
|
Jay |
Carney |
White House Press Secretary. |
|
Robert |
Bauer |
Served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama. |
|
Mike |
Leiter |
Chief of the National Counterterrorism Center. |
|
Kobe |
Bryant |
An American professional basketball player. |
|
William Craig |
Fugate |
Former admin. of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
|
Janet Lynn |
Kavandi |
An American scientist and a NASA astronaut. |
|
Eduardo J. |
Padrón |
President Emeritus of Miami Dade College. |
|
Calvin |
Coolidge |
Served as the 30th president of the United States. |
|
Timothy |
Pawlenty |
Served as the 39th governor of Minnesota. |
|
Rupert |
Murdoch |
Australian-born American media mogul. |
|
Sean Justin |
Penn |
An American actor and film director. |
|
Scarlett |
Johansson |
American actress and singer. |
|
Cairo |
|
A military dog. |
|
Bradley |
Webb |
Served as commander of the Air Education and Training Command. |
|
Geronimo |
|
Leader of the Bedonkohe Apache. |
|
Ashfag Parvez |
Kayani |
A retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army. |
|
Asif Ali |
Zardari |
The president of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians. |
|
Benazir |
Bhutto |
Zandari's wife. |
|
Payton |
Wall |
The daughter of 9/11 victim. |
|
Justin |
Bieber |
Canadian singer. |
