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Historical Figures and Influential People in History
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Richard Nixon
1913–1994AmericasUnited States
He opened China, ended the draft, founded the EPA — and then recorded himself discussing how to cover up a break-in and handed his enemies the evidence they needed.
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Rishi Sunak
1980–?EuropeUnited Kingdom
He became Britain's first British-Asian prime minister at a moment of profound political instability — and governed long enough to test whether that instability could be managed.
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Ronald Reagan
1911–2004AmericasUnited States
He was a B-movie actor who became the most consequential American president of the late twentieth century — and the argument about how he managed it has never stopped.
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