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Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd was part of the Toronto comedy troupe Second City before he became a star as one of the original cast members of TV's Saturday Night Live in 1975. Aykroyd was adept at playing stern-…Dick Cheney
Name at birth: Richard Bruce CheneyDick Cheney was elected vice president of the United States in 2000, as the running mate of George W. Bush, and served in that office from 2001-2009. Dick Cheney…Chuck Colson
Charles "Chuck" Colson is the Watergate conspirator who pled guilty to obstructing justice, went to jail, and then had a religious awakening that led him to found the outreach group known as Prison…Clare Boothe Luce
From the 1930s through the 1960s Clare Boothe Luce blazed a trail as a successful writer, socialite and political dabbler -- and stayed in the headlines as the wife of Henry Luce, the publisher of…Ben Bradlee
Name at birth: Benjamin Crowninshield BradleeBen Bradlee of The Washington Post was one of the few celebrity newspaper editors in America, thanks mostly to his role in guiding reporters Carl…Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone is a successful screenwriter, producer and film director whose work during the 1980s and '90s was consistently controversial. Stone, a veteran of the Vietnam War, began as a…Nikita Khrushchev
Born a Ukrainian peasant, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev joined the Communist party in 1918 and in four decades rose through the ranks to become the leader of all the Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev…John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination was one of the most shocking public events of the 20th century. John Kennedy served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, commanding the patrol boat PT-109 and…John Dean
John Dean was legal counsel to U.S. president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, and his testimony before Senate investigators convinced many Americans that Nixon was…William Simon 2000 Deaths
William SimonAge: 72 USOC president from 1981-84 and former Treasury secretary and energy expert in President Richard Nixon's administration; USOC vice president and treasurer (1976-80); gave…Trending
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