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19 people

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Eugene V. Debs Eugene V. Debs Five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and pioneer of industrial railroad unionism Social movements and organizing · Socialist Party of America 1855–1926
Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1856–1924
Cordell Hull Cordell Hull An American diplomat who pressed for free trade and international institutions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1871–1955
William N. Haskell William N. Haskell An international relief commander amid famine Military command · United States state institutions 1878–1952
William L. Lockhart Clayton William L. Clayton Free-trade champion who built the world's largest cotton firm, then set the Marshall Plan in motion with his memo on Europe's collapse Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions 1880–1966
Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta Government and administration · United States state institutions 1882–1945
James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1882–1972
Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Government and administration · United States state institutions 1884–1972
Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson Two-time presidential nominee who pressed the Soviet Union over its missiles in Cuba at the UN Security Council Government and administration · United States state institutions 1900–1965
James Webb James Edwin Webb The administrator who organized Apollo Government and administration · United States state institutions 1906–1992
Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson A Cold War president caught between reform and war Government and administration · United States state institutions 1908–1973
Ronald Wilson Reagan Ronald Reagan The Cold War's last American president, who genuinely believed in nuclear abolition but would not yield on SDI Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1911–2004
Henry M. Jackson Henry M. Jackson A hawkish Democratic senator who tied Soviet trade status to Jewish emigration Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1912–1983
Charles Vanik Charles Vanik The congressman who made emigration a condition of trade Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions 1913–2007
Robert McNamara Robert McNamara The quantitative defense secretary who led the Vietnam War and helped prevent nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis Government and administration · United States state institutions 1916–2009
John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The youngest U.S. president, who took the world to the brink of nuclear war and back Government and administration · United States state institutions 1917–1963
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter The 39th U.S. president whose administration marked both the peak and the end of détente Government and administration · United States state institutions 1924–2024
Robert F. Francis Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy The president's brother and attorney general who engineered the secret settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis Law and justice · United States state institutions 1925–1968
Ted Sorensen Ted Sorensen Kennedy's speechwriter whose pen chose 'quarantine' over airstrikes at the nuclear brink Government and administration · United States state institutions 1928–2010