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Presidents, lawmakers, judges, diplomats and commanders — the people who ran the country and argued about how.

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George H. W. Bush 1924–2018Presidents41st president who managed the end of the Cold War and assembled the coalition for the Persian Gulf War.Nathan Hale 1755–1776Military & National SecurityContinental Army officer hanged as a spy at 21 whose scaffold line became Revolutionary legend.Allen Dulles 1893–1969Military & National SecurityLongest-serving CIA director who built the agency's covert operations capacity during the early Cold War.William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan 1883–1959Military & National SecurityFounder and director of the OSS whose wartime organization became a principal institutional predecessor of the CIA.