I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
| Ronnie Barker, Comedian (1929) |
| Mario Diaz-Balart, Politician (1961) |
| Robert M. Gates, Politician (1943) |
| Mark Hamill, Actor (1951) |
| Felicity Kendal, Actress (1946) |
| Don Adams, Comedian (2005) |
| Billy Carter, Celebrity (1988) |
| Marvin Davis, Businessman (2004) |
| John M. Ford, Writer (2006) |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician (1777) |
| Ring Lardner, Comedian (1933) |

