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</div><div><p style=""> exclusive Washington, D.C. club for the rich and powerful, founded in 1913. Its sole purpose is to hold an annual banquet each January honoring the birthday of General <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/930/000049783/">Robert E. Lee</a>. There are approximately 200 members. Each member is eligible to bring up to two guests to the $200-a-plate dinner. The club always serves filet mignon and lobster.</p><p style="">No press coverage is allowed inside the banquet hall and the proceedings are ostensibly secret, but the Washington newspapers always seem to get a fairly detailed blow-by-blow description anyway. Regardless, the congenial atmosphere lends itself to politically-incorrect humor. In essence the event is just another roast, providing one more showcase for Washington bigwigs to unveil their professionally-written jokes.</p><p style="">Just for fun, the Alfalfa Club leadership nominates a <a href="http://www.nndb.com/honors/056/000088789/">presidential candidate</a> every year (not just election years). The candidate is required to deliver an acceptance speech at the event. Past nominees include: General <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/517/000052361/">Glen E. Edgerton</a>, Supreme Court Justice <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/524/000052368/">Robert H. Jackson</a> (1953), Merle Thorpe (1955), Senator <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/501/000052345/">Prescott Bush</a> (1959), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/110/000024038/">Richard M. Nixon</a> (1965), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000022293/">Ronald Reagan</a> (1974), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/362/000022296/">George H.W. Bush</a>, <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/319/000028235/">Dick Lugar</a> (1996), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/360/000022294/">George W. Bush</a> (1998), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/437/000023368/">Alan Simpson</a> (1999), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/617/000052461/">James Wolfensohn</a> (2000), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/914/000023845/">John McCain</a> (2001), <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/301/000032205/">Ted Stevens</a>(2003), and <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/749/000022683/">Jack Valenti</a> (2004).</p><p style="">In 1917, club member <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/404/000054242/">H. Ralph Burton</a> published a 12-page booklet entitled <i>The Origin, History and Object of the Alfalfa Club</i>. As described by a rare book seller: "The author proposes that the truth about the alfalfa club was written in a remote section of the Rosetta stone."</p><p style="">Club motto: Bis dat, qui cito dat. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">he gives twice who gives promptly : payment rendered promptly is worth twice as much.</span></p><p style="">The following list includes only bonafide inductees of the club, and not any of their invited dinner guests. The year of induction may be found inside each individual member's profile, when available.</p><p style=""><b>Location:</b>
<a href="http://www.nndb.com/geo/761/000069554/" class="proflink" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Washington, DC</a></p><p style=""><b>Founding Date:</b>
1913</p><table border="1" class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors" style="border: 1px solid rgb(119, 119, 119); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr class=" even"><th style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/692/000051539/#" class="sortheader" style="display: block;">Name<span class="sortarrow" /></a></th><th style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/692/000051539/#" class="sortheader" style="display: block;">Occupation<span class="sortarrow" /></a></th><th style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/692/000051539/#" class="sortheader" style="display: block;">Birth<span class="sortarrow" /></a></th><th style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/692/000051539/#" class="sortheader" style="display: block;">Death<span class="sortarrow" /></a></th><th style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/692/000051539/#" class="sortheader" style="display: block;">Known for<span class="sortarrow" /></a></th></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/959/000095674/">David Abshire</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1926</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Oct-2014</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/425/000054263/">Dean Acheson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1893</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1971</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1949-53</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/475/000027394/">Spiro T. Agnew</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1918</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1996</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Vice President, 1969-73</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/980/000023911/">Madeleine Albright</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-May-1937</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Bill Clinton's Secretary of State</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/161/000173639/">Tenley Albright</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Figure Skating</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1935</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Olympic figure skater, Gold Medal in 1956</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/777/000051624/">Joe L. Allbritton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Dec-2012</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Well-connected Washington billionaire</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/858/000095573/">Dwayne Andreas</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1918</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Archer Daniels Midland CEO, 1970-97</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/971/000051818/">Anne L. Armstrong</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1927</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Jul-2008</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/040/000052881/">C. Michael Armstrong</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1938</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Comcast, 2002-04</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/488/000022422/">Neil Armstrong</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Astronaut</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Aug-2012</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">First man on the Moon</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/601/000052445/">Norman Augustine</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1935</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/800/000052644/">Warren R. Austin</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1877</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1962</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/147/000023078/">Howard Baker</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1925</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Jun-2014</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1987-88</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/331/000023262/">James Baker</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1989-92</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/172/000057998/">Alben W. Barkley</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1877</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1956</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Vice President, 1949-53</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/556/000055391/">Carter T. Barron</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1905</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-Nov-1950</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Washington advocate for the arts</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/873/000030783/">Evan Bayh</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1955</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Indiana, 1999-2011</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/353/000054191/">Daniel W. Bell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1891</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>?</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Undersecretary of the Treasury</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/437/000022371/">Lloyd Bentsen, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1921</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-May-2006</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator, Treasury Secretary</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/518/000052362/">Clifford K. Berryman</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Cartoonist</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Apr-1869</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1949</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Political cartoonist</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/023/000027939/">Joseph Biden</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Vice President of the United States</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/953/000054791/">Leslie Biffle</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1880</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1966</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Secretary of the Senate</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/053/000052894/">James Billington</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1929</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">13th Librarian of Congress</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/286/000092010/">Hiram Bingham</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1875</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1956</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/099/000026021/">Michael Bloomberg</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Mayor of New York City, 2002-13</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/188/000032092/">Kit Bond</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1939</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Missouri, 1987-2011</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000051686/">David L. Boren</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1941</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Governor and Senator from Oklahoma</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/260/000023191/">Frank Borman</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Astronaut</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">First to circumnavigate moon</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/493/000053334/">Larry Bossidy</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1935</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Honeywell</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/737/000031644/">Omar Bradley</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1893</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1981</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Army Chief of Staff</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/643/000056475/">Nicholas F. Brady</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of the Treasury, 1988-93</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/193/000032097/">John Breaux</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1944</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Louisiana, 1987-2005</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/445/000022379/">Warren Buffett</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Billionaire in Omaha</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/151/000054986/">William Bulow</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1869</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1960</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from South Dakota, 1931-43</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/951/000055786/">Dale Bumpers</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1925</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Jan-2016</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Governor, Senator from Arkansas</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/278/000093996/">Mac Bundy</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1919</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1996</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">National Security Advisor, 1961-66</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/129/000088862/">Warren Burger</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1995</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Chief Justice, 1969-86</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/404/000054242/">H. Ralph Burton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1882</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1971</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Red-baiting Senate staffer</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/362/000022296/">George H.W. Bush</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">41st US President, 1989-93</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/360/000022294/">George W. Bush</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1946</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">43rd US President, 2001-09</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000022580/">Jeb Bush</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1953</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Governor of Florida, 1999-2007</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/016/000054851/">Marvin Bush</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Relative</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1956</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Brother of Jeb, Dubya, and Neil</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/501/000052345/">Prescott Bush</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-May-1895</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1972</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Connecticut, 1952-63</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/672/000055507/">Harry F. Byrd, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1914</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Jul-2013</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Virginia, 1965-83</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/367/000059190/">James F. Byrnes</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-May-1882</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1972</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1945-47</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000024574/">Andrew Card</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-May-1947</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">White House Chief of Staff, 2001-06</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/010/000031914/">Steve Case</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1958</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of AOL, 1991-2001</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/980/000094698/">John H. Chafee</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1922</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1999</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Rhode Island, 1976-99</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/596/000061413/">Elaine Chao</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1953</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Labor, 2001-09</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/657/000097366/">Buck Chapoton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-May-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Reagan's tax guy</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/403/000053244/">Kenneth Chenault</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1951</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of American Express</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/598/000022532/">Dick Cheney</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1941</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Vice President, 2001-09</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/048/000031952/">Max Cleland</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Georgia, 1997-2003</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/797/000054635/">Clark Clifford</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1906</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Oct-1998</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Defense, 1968-69</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/208/000032112/">Thad Cochran</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Mississippi</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/348/000023279/">Michael Collins</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Astronaut</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Apollo 11 command module pilot</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000059182/">John Connally</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1917</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Jun-1993</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Governor of Texas, 1963-69</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/500/000053341/">John H. Dalton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1941</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of the Navy, 1993-98</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/346/000025271/">Tom Daschle</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1947</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from South Dakota, 1987-2005</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/679/000053520/">F. Elwood Davis</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Attorney</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1915</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jan-2012</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Prominent Washington lawyer</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/816/000118462/">Robert A. Day</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Billionaire, Founder of TCW</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/183/000023114/">John Dingell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1926</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Congressman, Michigan 15th</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/650/000043521/">Everett Dirksen</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1896</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1969</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Illinois, 1951-69</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/233/000032137/">Chris Dodd</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-May-1944</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Connecticut, 1981-2011</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/912/000023843/">Elizabeth Dole</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from North Carolina, 2003-09</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/234/000032138/">Pete Domenici</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-May-1932</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from New Mexico, 1973-2009</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/041/000031945/">Bill Donaldson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1931</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">SEC Chairman, 2003-05</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/629/000050479/">Ken Duberstein</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1944</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1988-89</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/321/000028237/">John Foster Dulles</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1888</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>24-May-1959</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Eisenhower's Secretary of State</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/340/000023271/">Lawrence Eagleburger</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Jun-2011</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1992-93</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/517/000052361/">Glen E. Edgerton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1887</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1956</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Canal Zone Governor, 1940-44</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/111/000024039/">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1890</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1969</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">34th US President, 1953-61</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/439/000053280/">John Fahey</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1953</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of National Geographic Society</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/854/000095569/">Dante Fascell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1917</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1998</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from Florida, 1955-93</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/535/000023466/">Dianne Feinstein</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1933</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from California</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/553/000055388/">John Spalding Flannery</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Attorney</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-May-1870</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1954</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Prominent Washington attorney</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/345/000089078/">Jack Fletcher</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Photographer</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1917</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Dec-2003</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><i>National Geographic</i> photographer</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/616/000052460/">Timothy Foley</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-May-1946</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Marine Band director</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/544/000056376/">Tom Foley</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1929</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Oct-2013</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Speaker of the House, 1989-95</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/452/000024380/">Steve Forbes</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1947</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Owner and publisher of <i>Forbes</i> magazine</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/400/000022334/">Gerald Ford</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1913</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Dec-2006</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">38th US President, 1974-77</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/658/000097367/">Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1916</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-May-2011</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from New Jersey, 1953-75</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/215/000024143/">Bill Frist</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1952</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senate Majority Leader, 2003-07</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/767/000079530/">J. William Fulbright</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1905</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1995</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Conceived the Fulbright Scholarships</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/103/000057929/">Thomas S. Gates</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1906</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1983</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Defense, 1959-61</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/487/000024415/">Newt Gingrich</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Speaker of the House, 1995-99</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/872/000022806/">John Glenn</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Astronaut</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1921</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">First American to orbit earth</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/684/000026606/">Barry Goldwater</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1909</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-May-1998</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/682/000055517/">John Oliver La Gorce</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Explorer</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1880</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1959</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Antarctica explorer, <i>National Geographic</i> editor</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/538/000052382/">Donald E. Graham</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1945</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of <i>Washington Post</i></td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/533/000051380/">Katharine Graham</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Publisher</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1917</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jul-2001</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><i>Washington Post</i> publisher, 1966-79</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/288/000097994/">C. Boyden Gray</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Conservative activist, lobbyist</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/841/000094559/">Maurice R. Greenberg</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-May-1925</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/164/000023095/">Alan Greenspan</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1926</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/023/000054858/">Joseph Grew</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-May-1880</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-May-1965</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/634/000055469/">Duke Guider</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1968</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Defense attorney for Hideki Tojo</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/249/000032153/">Chuck Hagel</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1946</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Defense, 2013-15</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/989/000022923/">Alexander Haig</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Dec-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Feb-2010</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1981-82</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/211/000043082/">Lee H. Hamilton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1931</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">9/11 Commission vice chairman</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/066/000038949/">Jane Harman</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1945</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congresswoman from California, 1993-2011</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/618/000053459/">William B. Harrison, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of JPMorgan Chase, 2000-05</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/354/000054192/">Nelson T. Hartson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1887</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>?</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Solicitor of the IRS</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/793/000023724/">Orrin Hatch</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1934</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Utah</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/868/000022802/">Howell Heflin</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1921</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Mar-2005</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Alabama, 1979-97</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/773/000056605/">John Heinz</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1938</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1991</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-91</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/212/000024140/">Richard Helms</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1913</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Oct-2002</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CIA Director, 1966-73</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/879/000098585/">A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1998</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/358/000055193/">Joseph H. Himes</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1960</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from Ohio, 1921-23</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/885/000022819/">Fritz Hollings</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1922</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from South Carolina, 1967-2005</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/269/000032173/">Kay Bailey Hutchison</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Texas</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/616/000125241/">Jeffrey R. Immelt</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1956</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of General Electric</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/982/000022916/">Daniel Inouye</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Dec-2012</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Hawaii, 1963-2012</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/190/000022124/">Henry "Scoop" Jackson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-May-1912</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1983</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Washington, 1953-83</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/524/000052368/">Robert H. Jackson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1892</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1954</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Supreme Court Justice, 1941-54</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/909/000054747/">Eli S. Jacobs</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Baseball</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1937</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Former Baltimore Orioles owner</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/062/000023990/">Lyndon B. Johnson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1908</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1973</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">36th US President, 1963-69</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/619/000053460/">Robert L. Johnson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1946</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of BET</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/509/000052353/">J. Bennett Johnston</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1932</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Louisiana, 1972-97</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/248/000129858/">David C. Jones</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1921</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Aug-2013</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1978-82</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/863/000215218/">James L. Jones</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US National Security Advisor, 2009-10</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000055194/">Jesse H. Jones</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1874</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1956</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Commerce, 1940-45</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/862/000023793/">Vernon Jordan</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1935</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Advisor to Bill Clinton</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/966/000054804/">Samuel H. Kauffmann</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Apr-2002</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">California tract housing developer</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/512/000053353/">Paul X. Kelley</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Nov-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">28th USMC Commandant, 1983-87</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/855/000023786/">Jack Kemp</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1935</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-May-2009</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">American politican, football player</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/910/000023841/">Anthony Kennedy</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Supreme Court Justice</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/113/000024041/">John F. Kennedy</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-May-1917</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1963</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">35th US President, 1961-63</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/229/000043100/">Bob Kerrey</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Governor and Senator from Nebraska</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/492/000053333/">James Kimsey</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1939</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">AOL's founding CEO</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/357/000022291/">Henry Kissinger</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-May-1923</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1973-77</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/434/000053275/">Fred Kleisner</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1944</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Wyndham International</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/058/000057884/">Melvin Laird</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1922</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Defense, 1969-73</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/144/000088877/">Paul Laxalt</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Aug-1922</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Nevada, 1974-87</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/955/000095670/">Curtis LeMay</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1906</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1990</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">USAF General</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/857/000060677/">Drew Lewis</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1931</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/307/000024235/">Joseph Lieberman</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>24-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Former US Senator from Connecticut</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/958/000054796/">Charles P. Light, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Attorney</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1902</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1976</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Prominent Washington attorney, law professor</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/277/000112938/">Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1902</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1985</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Ambassador, Massachusetts Senator</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/366/000024294/">Trent Lott</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1941</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Mississippi, 1989-2007</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/900/000054738/">Ben F. Love</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Jan-2006</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Texas Commerce Bank</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/319/000028235/">Dick Lugar</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1932</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Indiana</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/013/000054848/">Cecil B. Lyon</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1903</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1993</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Ambassador to Chile, Sri Lanka</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/495/000053336/">John Macomber</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">JDM Investment Group</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/852/000047711/">Fred Malek</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Thayer Capital Partners</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/904/000094622/">Donald Marron</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1934</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">PaineWebber CEO</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/704/000053545/">George C. Marshall</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1880</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1959</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Army Chief of Staff, 1939-45</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/914/000023845/">John McCain</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Arizona</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/098/000053936/">John J. McCloy</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1895</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1989</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">World Bank, Warren Commission</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/281/000032185/">Mitch McConnell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Kentucky</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/694/000023625/">David McCullough</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Jul-1933</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><i>The American Experience</i></td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/014/000054849/">Ben McKelway</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1895</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1976</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Editor, <i>The Washington Star</i></td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/989/000096701/">John G. Medlin, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1933</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Jun-2012</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Wachovia, 1977-93</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/551/000050401/">Andrea Mitchell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1946</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">NBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000023176/">Walter Mondale</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Vice President under Jimmy Carter</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/507/000052351/">R. Michael Mondavi</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Second-generation vintner</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/653/000022587/">Robert Mondavi</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1913</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-May-2008</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Vintner</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/522/000059345/">Robert Mosbacher</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>24-Jan-2010</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Commerce, 1989-92</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/132/000025057/">Daniel Patrick Moynihan</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Mar-2003</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from New York, 1977-2001</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/494/000053335/">Terrence Murray</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1939</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of FleetBoston</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/239/000059062/">Ed Muskie</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1914</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1996</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Maine, 1959-80</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/746/000028662/">Don Nickles</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1948</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Oklahoma, 1981-2005</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/110/000024038/">Richard M. Nixon</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1913</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1994</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">37th US President, 1969-74</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/586/000053427/">Patrick Noonan</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Activist</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1943</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Chairman of the Conservation Fund</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/459/000031366/">Sam Nunn</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1938</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Georgia, 1972-97</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/360/000055195/">John Lord O'Brian</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1874</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1974</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Prominent antitrust lawyer</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/527/000095242/">John J. O'Connor III</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Relative</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Nov-2009</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Sandra Day O'Connor's husband</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/326/000023257/">Sandra Day O'Connor</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/082/000031986/">Rod Paige</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1933</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Education, 2000-04</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/309/000023240/">Arnold Palmer</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Golf</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1929</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Won 61 PGA tournaments</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/759/000050609/">Richard Parsons</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1948</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Time Warner, 2002-07</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/486/000053327/">Landon Parvin</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1948</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Speechwriter for Reagan, Bush, Schwarzenegger</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/337/000023268/">H. Ross Perot</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Eccentric presidential candidate</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/896/000092620/">John J. Pershing</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1860</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1948</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">General of the Armies of the United States</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/356/000094074/">Wilton B. Persons</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1896</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>Sep-1977</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Eisenhower's Chief of Staff</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/649/000022583/">Colin Powell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1937</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 2001-05</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/749/000117398/">Lewis F. Powell, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1998</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Supreme Court Justice, 1972-87</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/424/000054262/">Heinz C. Prechter</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Jul-2001</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">The sunroof king</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/894/000094612/">David Pryor</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1934</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Arkansas, 1979-97</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/781/000024709/">Dan Quayle</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1947</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Vice President under George H.W. Bush</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/905/000094623/">Franklin Raines</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1949</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/978/000110648/">J. Donald Rauth</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1918</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Dec-2005</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Martin Marietta, 1973-83</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/355/000054193/">Sam Rayburn</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1882</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>16-Nov-1961</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Speaker of the US House, 1940-61</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000022293/">Ronald Reagan</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1911</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Jun-2004</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">40th US President, 1981-89</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/614/000052458/">Joseph Verner Reed</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Ambassador to Morocco, 1981-85</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/349/000055184/">Stanley Reed</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1884</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Apr-1980</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Supreme Court Justice, 1938-57</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/654/000062468/">Donald Regan</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1918</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Jun-2003</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/984/000022918/">William Rehnquist</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>3-Sep-2005</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Chief Justice, 1986-2005</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/205/000024133/">Condoleezza Rice</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1954</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 2005-09</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/063/000057889/">Elliot Richardson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1920</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1999</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/899/000054737/">James O. Richardson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1878</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-May-1974</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Admiral</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/229/000041106/">Chuck Robb</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1939</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Virginia, 1989-2001</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/882/000054720/">Joe Robert</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1952</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of J.E. Robert Companies</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/746/000099449/">John G. Roberts, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Chief Justice</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/913/000030823/">Pat Roberts</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Kansas</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/728/000022662/">David Rockefeller</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1915</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Founder of the Trilateral Commission</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/384/000029297/">Jay Rockefeller</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1937</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from West Virginia</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/323/000028239/">Nelson Rockefeller</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1908</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Jan-1979</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Ford's Vice President</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/129/000053967/">Charles G. Ross</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1885</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1950</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">White House Press Secretary for Truman</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/324/000025249/">Dan Rostenkowski</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>11-Aug-2010</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from Illinois, 1959-95</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/634/000023565/">Donald Rumsfeld</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1932</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/691/000053532/">Frederick Ryan, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1955</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Allbritton Communications</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/051/000053889/">Leverett Saltonstall</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1892</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1979</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Masachusetts, 1945-67</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/342/000055177/">Everett Sanders</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Mar-1882</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-May-1950</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from Indiana, 1917-25</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/903/000094621/">Roger W. Sant</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>c. 1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Billionaire, AES</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/597/000087336/">Jim Sasser</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1936</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Tennessee, 1977-95</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/415/000056247/">James R. Schlesinger</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1929</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Mar-2014</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Served Nixon, Ford, Carter</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/726/000096438/">William Schreyer</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Jan-2011</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/987/000028903/">William Sessions</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-May-1930</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Director of FBI, 1987-93</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/260/000024188/">Donna Shalala</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1941</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/864/000022798/">George Shultz</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1920</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1982-89</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/437/000023368/">Alan Simpson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1931</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Wyoming, 1979-97</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/354/000094072/">Samuel K. Skinner</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1938</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Bush 41's Chief of Staff</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/954/000095669/">George Smathers</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1913</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>20-Jan-2007</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Florida, 1951-69</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/906/000046768/">Roger Smith</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1925</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Nov-2007</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of General Motors, 1980-90</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/341/000055176/">Bertrand H. Snell</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1870</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1958</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from New York, 1915-39</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/336/000055171/">A. Owsley Stanley</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-May-1867</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1958</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Kentucky, 1919-25</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/876/000082630/">Harold Stassen</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1907</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Mar-2001</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Perennial presidential candidate</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/018/000054853/">Adolphus Staton</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1879</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1964</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Navy admiral</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/301/000032205/">Ted Stevens</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1923</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>10-Aug-2010</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Alaska, 1968-2009</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/504/000052348/">Potter Stewart</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1915</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1985</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/917/000055752/">Robert S. Strauss</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1918</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Mar-2014</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/012/000054847/">James Symington</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1927</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Congressman from Missouri, 1969-77</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/025/000054860/">Robert A. Taft</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1889</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Jul-1953</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/114/000024042/">Harry S. Truman</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-May-1884</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1972</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">33rd US President, 1945-53</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/972/000054810/">Millard E. Tydings</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1890</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1961</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Maryland, 1927-51</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/749/000022683/">Jack Valenti</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>5-Sep-1921</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Apr-2007</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Presidential advisor, headed the MPAA</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/983/000024911/">Cyrus Vance</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1917</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Jan-2002</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of State, 1977-80</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/955/000054793/">Alexander A. Vandegrift</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1887</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-May-1973</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">18th USMC Commandant, 1944-48</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/703/000053544/">Arthur Vandenberg</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1884</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1951</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Michigan, 1928-51</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/892/000095607/">John Vessey</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff 1982-85</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/026/000054861/">Fred Vinson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1890</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1953</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Chief Justice, 1946-53</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/910/000054748/">James W. Wadsworth, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1877</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1952</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from New York, 1915-27</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/306/000032210/">John Warner</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1927</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Virginia, 1979-2009</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/081/000031985/">Mark Warner</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1954</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Virginia</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/015/000054850/">Earl Warren</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Judge</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1891</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Chief Justice, 1953-69</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/384/000062198/">James Watkins</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Jul-2012</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of Energy, 1989-93</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/310/000055145/">James E. Watson</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1864</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1948</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Indiana, 1916-33</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/961/000044829/">William Webster</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1924</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">FBI Director 1978-87, CIA Director 1987-91</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/006/000025928/">Jack Welch</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1935</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">CEO of GE, 1981-2001</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/373/000062187/">Togo West</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1942</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Secretary of the Army, Veterans Affairs</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/695/000022629/">William Westmoreland</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1914</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>18-Jul-2005</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Commanded US Army in Vietnam War</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/301/000055136/">George White</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1872</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1953</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">Governor of Ohio, 1931-35</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/293/000055128/">Wallace H. White, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1877</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1952</nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Senator from Maine, 1931-49</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/615/000024543/">Christine Todd Whitman</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1946</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">GWB's first head of EPA</td></tr><tr class=" odd"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/856/000095571/">John A. Wickham, Jr.</a></td><td style="padding: 3px;"><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1928</nobr></tt></td><td align="right" style="padding: 3px;"><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td><td style="padding: 3px;">US Army Chief of Staff, 1983-87</td></tr><tr class=" even"><td style="padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/346/000089079/">Anthony A. 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</div><div>Style</div><div>The Alfalfa Club: still a place for the powerful to see and be seen</div><div>Alfalfa Club celebrates 101 years</div><div>
</div><div>View Photos<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The secretive institution is still a place for politicians and one-percenters to see and be seen.</div><div>By Roxanne Roberts January 24, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>On Saturday night, a Supreme Court justice, two senators and the chief executives of McDonald’s and Lockheed Martin will officially join a secretive private club that meets just once a year, has no official purpose, and is named after a plant that will do almost anything for a drink.</div><div>
</div><div>And despite that — or perhaps because of it — the<b> Alfalfa Club is one of the most prestigious organizations in Washington.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The 101-year-old club boasts a unique mix of politicians, administration officials, rainmakers, top military brass and corporate leaders from all over the country: Billionaires Warren Buffett, David Rubenstein, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Marriott and Steve Case; Chief Justice John Roberts, White House senior advise<b>r Valerie Jarrett,</b> George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Sandra Day O’Connor, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Vernon Jordan, to name just a few.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>It’s a cross-section of power brokers so influential that almost every president has made a pilgrimage to the annual gathering</b>. President Obama has addressed the group twice: a week after his inauguration in 2009, and again in 2012 when he joked about escaping the White House bubble: “One of my big goals this year was to get out and be among everyday, ordinary Americans — like the men and women of the Alfalfa Club.” Big laugh.</div><div>
</div><div>Why, you ask, would men and women with all the money and fame they could ever use care about Alfalfa? Because they’re never too rich or too successful to pass up an evening that really is like none other, where so many big shots from different spheres bond together over cocktails, jokes, lobster and filet of beef.</div><div>
</div><div>“The members are certainly some of the most respected people in America,” said philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, who’s attending again this year as a guest of O’Connor. “It’s not about business, it’s about relationships .?.?. which is about business.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I’ve never seen a dinner like it anywhere else,” said Raul Fernandez, tech entrepreneur and vice chairman of Monumental Sports and Entertainment, the company that owns the Washington Wizards and Capitals. Fernandez will be inducted at the 2014 dinner Saturday in the crop of new members — affectionately referred to as “sprouts” — that includes <b>Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Sens. Timothy M. Kaine and Kelly Ayotte, Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson, McDonald’s chief executive Donald Thompson, Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson</b>, former head of General Dynamics Jay Johnson, James A. Baker IV and financiers C. Bowdoin Train and William Grayson.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“Mark Warner has always told me how fun it is and I was honored to be asked to join,” said Kaine.</div><div>
</div><div>The evening, always closed to the press, is described by members as a reunion, a party, a chance to enjoy a few laughs and silly speeches. “It is an occasion for old friends to get together and where new friends can be made,” said incoming president Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). “The evening is filled with humor — some good and some not so good.” The 200 members are allowed to bring two guests each to the dinner held at the Capital Hilton; the seating is intimate, picnic-style with everyone smooshed together at long, narrow tables. Between speeches by the outgoing president — this year it’s Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) — the incoming president, and the club’s annual mock nominee for president (always a surprise), the aisles are “absolutely clogged,” reported one guest. “It’s like a seething anthill. What are they doing? Pressing the flesh.”</div><div>
</div><div>It’s easy to dismiss Alfalfa as a bastion of the privileged, a haven for America’s ruling class to celebrate itself. Occupy D.C. staged a loud protest outside the 2012 dinner, glitter-bombing the politicians and one-percenters who dared cross the hotel threshold. But that didn’t prevent the dinner guests from showing up, primarily because many rejected the narrative of themselves as disengaged elites.</div><div>
</div><div>“I don’t see it that way,” said businesswoman Catherine Reynolds, who’s bringing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and first lady Dorothy McAuliffe as her guests this year. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I see it as a group of people who are doers in their industry and in their community. They try to get things done.” The spirit of the night, she described, is one of “camaraderie and patriotism. I think that’s what makes it all jell.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Talk to a few members and you hear versions of the American dream realized. Much of the appeal of Alfalfa is the sense that accomplishment, not class or money, is a major factor in getting in. People who started with nothing and made it big, Alfalfans who are proud and still a little amazed at their good fortune. “Bloomberg and I always joke, ‘How did two blue-collar kids from Medford, Massachusetts, end up at the Alfalfa Club?’?” said longtime member Bill McSweeny, philanthropist and former president of Occidental. “There’s a lot of that.”</div><div>
</div><div>The club started in 1913, when — as the story goes — four friends gathered to celebrate the Jan. 19 birthday of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. They took their name from the alfalfa plant, known for roots that travel deep to find refreshment. The annual dinner, which quickly grew in numbers and prestige, is always held on the last Saturday in January. Richard Pearson, a member for more than 50 years, can’t remember the dinner ever being canceled, even during snowstorms and power outages. “I’ve been to somewhere we ate in our overcoats,” he said.</div><div>
</div><div>It’s easy to see why politicians flocked to Alfalfa. Prescott Bush, former senator and the late patriarch of the Bush clan (the Alfalfa’s devoted, unofficial first family — George W. Bush attended all eight years he was president) “thought the club was very important because it’s a power center of politics and money,” said writer Landon Parvin, who was inducted in 2002 and is responsible for many of the wittiest lines in Alfalfa speeches.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alfalfans embraced tradition and establishment and resisted change. African Americans were not admitted until 1974. In 1986, Sen. Paul Simon drilled Supreme Court Justice <b>William Rehnquist about Alfalfa during his confirmation hearing for chief justice, suggesting the men-only rule might violate American Bar Association rules prohibiting membership in discriminatory private clubs. </b>Rehnquist replied that the club meets annually to “hear some patriotic music, listen to some funny speeches, and go their way for the rest of the year.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Sounds like part of the old-boy network to me,” sniffed Simon, who asked the justice to consider quitting. (He didn’t.)</span> Nine years earlier, legendary Washington lawyer Clark Clifford had urged then-new HHS Secretary Joe Califano to join the club. “You’ll be returning to law practice here,” Califano wrote in his 2004 memoir. <b>“It can help you</b>.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Califano, already under fire from women for his opposition to federal funding for abortion, declined</span>. Clifford dismissed his concerns and warned that there wouldn’t be a second offer. “No one turns down the Alfalfa Club.”</div><div>
</div><div>It was just 20 years ago that women were finally allowed to join after a strong push from another HHS secretary, Donna Shalala, and a snub from President Bill Clinton. O’Connor, Elizabeth Dole and Katharine Graham were the first women inducted<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. O’Connor went on to become the club’s first female president and its only presidential nominee; Feinstein will be the second. “<b>Perhaps it will be a trend, but I doubt it,” said the senator.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Alfalfa is especially valuable for women leaders,</b> Arsht said. “The women in the room illustrate, almost in a subliminal way, women of accomplishment. Gravitas is a given.” Or put it this way: Instead of a female chief executive or senator being mistaken for someone’s wife (yes, it still happens), a spouse is more likely assumed to be a corporate heavyweight.</div><div>
</div><div><b>But good luck getting in. The membership process is “very secretive and murky,”</b> joked Parvin. “The anointed just appear.” Well, not quite: Alfalfa tries to keep membership to about 200; openings only occur when members die. There are no formal letters of recommendation, said Pearson, the longtime club secretary, but prospective members are quietly approached after they’ve been proposed and approved by the “powers that be” (some of the older members). Lobbying for admission is frowned upon. The club tries to recruit an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, although the corporate types skew slightly conservative. Oh, and no meanies allowed. “For the most, they have to have good personalities,” Pearson said.</div><div>
</div><div>“It’s an honor to be invited,” said Fernandez — who, at 47, is a decade or two younger than most of his fellow Alfalfans. “It’s a live connection to a different era that lives on.”</div><div>
</div><div>Or, as Parvin put it: “You can be any age and be an old fart. We’re trying to uphold that tradition.”</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Saturday night, a room at the Capitol Hilton will fill with tuxes and evening gowns and the power players who love them. It’s the annual gathering of the Alfalfa Club, that bulwark of old-school schmoozing, forever impervious to modern conventions, such as selfies or business-casual dress codes.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The only thing richer than the lobster bisque will be the tycoons pressing the flesh with Supreme Court justices and Senate committee chairmen. Basically, this is a party you’ll never crash.</span></div><div>
</div><div>So what’s going on in there? Good question. Here’s what you need to know:</div><div>
</div><div>Who are these people?</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. The Alfalfa Club is more exclusive than most of Washington’s social organizations, and unlike, say, the Gridiron (which is all journalists), the members come from all sectors. Among the some 200 members, there’s a good contingent of political types (from both parties, but mostly senators; House members are kind of considered plebs in this crowd), and a heavy presence from the corporate world.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To name a few: Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Marriott, Steve Case, Chief Justice John Roberts, White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Sandra Day O’Connor, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Vernon Jordan, per this excellent profile of the club by our colleague Roxanne Roberts.</span></div><div>
</div><div>What does the name mean?</div><div>
</div><div>The perhaps apocryphal story of the 102-year-old club’s founding goes something like this: It began as a celebration of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday, and the name comes from the plant known for being “thirsty” (i.e., it likes to drink, just like some members of the club).</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">How do you get into the club?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shocker — it’s invite-only! Openings occur when members die, and a group of the club’s senior members propose and approach prospective newbies. “Lobbying for admission is frowned upon,” Roberts says.</span></div><div>
</div><div>What happens at the dinner?</div><div>
</div><div>Each member brings two guests, who sometimes include a Hollywood type for novelty’s sake — but this is no celebrity-overrun White House Correspondents Dinner. There are funny speeches (that is, if you get inside jokes about Cabinet secretaries and the stock market) by the incoming and outgoing presidents of the club, as well as by a member held forth as the club’s mock presidential nominee.</div><div>
</div><div>Traditionally, POTUS shows up, though President Obama has attended only twice: in 2009 and 2012. It’s all ostensibly off-the-record, though some of the quips and details inevitably leak.</div><div>
</div><div>Isn’t it just a bunch of old white guys?</div><div>
</div><div>Sort of, though diversity and the number of women in the club’s ranks has grown since ladies were first admitted in 1994, a move partly prompted by President Bill Clinton’s snub the previous year. <b>Today, the roster includes businesswoman Catherine Reynolds, Sens. Kelly Ayotte and Dianne Feinstein, and Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alfalfa Club members apparently don’t care about looking like a bunch of elitist fat-cats, because they swear that’s not what the annual gathering is about. “Occupy Wall Street” protesters showed up in 2012 and glitter-bombed attendees, but the dinner-goers shrugged it off, Roberts reports.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b>Alfalfa Club</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club(organization)" title="Club (organization)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">social club</a> that exists only to hold an annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tie" title="Black tie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">black tie</a> banquet on the last Saturday of January at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Hilton" title="Capital Hilton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Capital Hilton</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington D.C.</a>, with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After-party" class="mw-redirect" title="After-party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">after-party</a> at a local restaurant.<sup id="cite_ref-palin_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-palin-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> The banquet, which lasts 4 hours, features music by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Band" title="United States Marine Band" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Marine Band</a> as well as a political <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roast(comedy)" title="Roast (comedy)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">roast</a>. There are approximately 200 members of the club, all of them influential politicians and business executives. The club has an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_system" title="Invitation system" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">invitation system</a>; members are required to be invited to join.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> Several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidents of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Presidents of the United States</a> have been members of the club. The press is not allowed to attend the banquet.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">The club was named in reference to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa" title="Alfalfa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">alfalfa</a> plant's supposed willingness to "do anything for a drink".<sup id="cite_ref-palin_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-palin-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">If in attendance, the President of the United States is usually asked to deliver remarks at the banquet. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> spoke at the banquet each year of his presidency;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> the Alfalfa Club was one of only three clubs that his father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George H. W. Bush</a>, was a member of as president.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> President Obama attended and spoke at the banquet in 2009 and in 2012. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> has not attended the event.</p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#Annual_club_president_nomination" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Annual club president nomination</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><span class="mw-headline" id="Annual_club_president_nomination">Annual club president nomination</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfalfa_Club&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Annual club president nomination" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">One of the evening's activities includes the playful nomination of a presidential candidate by the Club's leadership. The candidate is then required to make a speech. Several such candidates became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President of the United States</a> after being nominated, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Nixon</a> in 1965 (elected in 1968), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> in 1974 (elected in 1980), and George W. Bush in 1998 (elected in 2000).<sup id="cite_ref-nndb_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-nndb-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In 1969, it nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stassen" title="Harold Stassen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harold Stassen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> In 2004, the Club nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti" title="Jack Valenti" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jack Valenti</a>, the former president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" title="Motion Picture Association of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Motion Picture Association of America</a>. Its 2000 nomination was Australian-born <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfensohn" title="James Wolfensohn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Wolfensohn</a>, constitutionally ineligible for election to the U.S. presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-nndb_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-nndb-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In 2001, the presidential nomination went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John McCain</a>. In 2011, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%E2%80%99Connor" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandra Day O’Connor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sandra Day O’Connor</a> became the first female president of the club.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> In 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg" title="Michael Bloomberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Bloomberg</a> was elected president of the club<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>, in 2018, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a> was elected president, and in 2019, Mitt Romney was elected.</p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfalfa_Club&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">The club was formed by 4 southerners in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Willard Hotel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Willard Hotel</a> to celebrate the birthday of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Confederate</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Civil War</a> General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E.Lee" title="Robert E. Lee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert E. Lee</a>. It began admitting blacks in 1974 and women in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-palin_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-palin-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> In 2009, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a> spoke at the club's annual dinner, saying, "This dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E.Lee" title="Robert E. Lee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert E. Lee</a>. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years old. And very confused."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">In addition to its January banquet in Washington, the club previously held an annual summer picnic.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">In 1986, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.Rehnquist" class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Rehnquist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William H. Rehnquist</a>'s membership in the club became the subject of discussion in a Senate Judiciary hearing after Rehnquist was nominated to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chief Justice of the United States</a>. He described the club as one that "met once a year to listen to patriotic music and 'hear some funny political speeches<span style="padding-right: 0.15em;">'</span>" and said "he did not think his membership in such a once-a-year group violated the canons of judicial ethics."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">In 1994, after a boycott by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> over a lack of women in the club, the club admitted its first women members, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O'Connor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sandra Day O'Connor</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Dole" title="Elizabeth Dole" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Elizabeth Dole</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Graham" title="Katharine Graham" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Katharine Graham</a>, whose father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Meyer(financier)" title="Eugene Meyer (financier)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Eugene Meyer</a>, had also been a member.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-clinton_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-clinton-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> Clinton's boycott had been the first by a U.S. president since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jimmy Carter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clinton_13-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-clinton-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">During the 2012 dinner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_D.C." title="Occupy D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Occupy D.C.</a> protested the banquet.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfalfa_Club&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members" title="List of Alfalfa Club members" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">List of Alfalfa Club members</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfalfa_Club&action=edit§ion=4" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-nndb-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_ref-nndb_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_ref-nndb_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_ref-nndb_1-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nndb.com/org/692/000051539/" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;">Politico</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Politico&rft.atitle=Palin%2C+Obama+to+share+stage&rft.date=2009-01-29&rft.aulast=MARTIN&rft.aufirst=JONATHAN&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2F2009%2F01%2Fpalin-obama-to-share-stage-018161&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlfalfa+Club" class="Z3988" /></span></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Heil, Emily (January 29, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2015/01/29/whats-the-deal-with-the-alfalfa-club/" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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I</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ts members are composed mostly of American politicians and influential members of the business community, and have included several </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidents of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Presidents of the United States</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Members:</p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M.Abshire" class="mw-redirect" title="David M. Abshire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David M. Abshire</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Acheson" title="Dean Acheson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dean Acheson</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Spiro Agnew</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright" title="Madeleine Albright" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Madeleine Albright</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Neil Armstrong</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker" title="James Baker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Baker</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bennett(politician)" title="Bob Bennett (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert F. 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Truman</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Earl Warren</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Westmoreland" title="William Westmoreland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Westmoreland</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-bush41aportrait14-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-bush41aportrait14_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-bush41aportrait14_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-bush41aportrait14_1-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-bush41aportrait14_1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bush, George W. (2014). <i>41: A Portrait of My Father</i>. London: Ebury Publishing. p. 14. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780553447781" title="Special:BookSources/9780553447781" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9780553447781</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883645289" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">883645289</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=41%3A+A+Portrait+of+My+Father&rft.place=London&rft.pages=14&rft.pub=Ebury+Publishing&rft.date=2014&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F883645289&rft.isbn=9780553447781&rft.aulast=Bush&rft.aufirst=George+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AList+of+Alfalfa+Club+members" class="Z3988" /></span></li><li id="cite_note-WaPo-20190127-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-WaPo-20190127_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-WaPo-20190127_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-WaPo-20190127_2-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-WaPo-20190127_2-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members#cite_ref-WaPo-20190127_2-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Helena Andrews-Dyer (27 January 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/01/27/john-kerry-mitt-romney-hugging-mitch-mcconnell-hospital-gown-it-must-be-alfalfa-club-dinner/?utm_term=.99016c0cdc24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"John Kerry and Mitt Romney hugging, and Mitch McConnell in a hospital gown? It must be the Alfalfa Club dinner"</a>. 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