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“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
“Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.”
| John Adams, President (1735) |
| Joe Adcock, Athlete (1927) |
| Robert Caro, Writer (1935) |
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (1930) |
| William Halsey, Soldier (1882) |
| Harry Hamlin, Actor (1951) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1914) |
| John Abbott, Statesman (1893) |
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (2000) |
| Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity (1983) |
| Clifford Geertz, Scientist (2006) |
| Jam Master Jay, Musician (2002) |
| Rose Wilder Lane, Journalist (1968) |