Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Who are these men 3?

This is the third in a series of three famous world leaders, or people who affected history in a significant way. The people polled come from all walks of American life, education, age groups and work experience. I showed passerbys the photos, minus the names at the bottom and asked them all the same question: "Who are these men"?
























1. Muammar al-Gaddafi
A. Yes - 30
B. No - 9
C. Colombian Drug Lord - 1
D. That Syrian guy - 1
E. Saddam Hussein - 1
F. Manuel Noriega - 2
G. Anwar Sadat - 1
H. Fidel Castro - 1

2. Ho Chi Minh
A. Yes - 12
B. No - 26
C. That Chinese guy - 4
D. Hirohito - 1
E. Mao Tse Tung - 1
F. Pol Pot - 2

3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
A. Yes - 26
B. No - 17
C. Gerald Ford – 1
D. James Baker – 1
E. Vladimir Putin - 1

Muammar al-Gaddafi has been the de facto leader of Libya since 1969. Although Gaddafi holds no public office or title, he is accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press.

Ho Chi Minh is most famous for being the founder of the Viet Minh independence movement in 1941 and establishing Communist control in part of Vietnam in the 1950s. Ho was fluent in English, several dialects of Chinese, French, German and Russian besides his native Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh City was named after him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American soldier and politician. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1949 he became the first supreme commander of NATO. As a Republican, he was elected the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961). As president he ended the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, re-oriented the defense budget toward nuclear weapons, launched the space race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began building the interstate highway system.

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