We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.
King Albert II, Royalty (1934) |
Eric Cantor, Politician (1963) |
George Deukmejian, Politician (1928) |
Marian Wright Edelman, Activist (1939) |
Robert Englund, Actor (1949) |
Harvey Fierstein, Actor (1954) |
Paul Giamatti, Actor (1967) |
Nathan Hale, Revolutionary (1755) |
Dean Inge, Author (1860) |
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman (1860) |
Anne Bancroft, Actress (2005) |
James E. Casey, Businessman (1983) |
Camillo Di Cavour, Statesman (1861) |
Richard Dawson, Actor (2012) |
J. Paul Getty, Businessman (1976) |
Stan Getz, Musician (1991) |
Benjamin Hawkins, Diplomat (1816) |
Marvin Isley, Musician (2010) |
Robert Kennedy, Politician (1968) |