| A | B |
|---|
| Al Gore | Tennessee Senator; Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1992 |
| Bob Dole | Kansas Senator; Republican minority leader |
| Clarence Thomas | controversial Bush Supreme Court nominee |
| Colin Powell | Bush Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff; first African-American to hold position |
| Dan Quayle | Bush Vice President |
| David Souter | Bush Supreme Court nominee; very little was known about him; a liberal vote on Court |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese communist who led market reforms in China |
| Francois Mitterrand | Socialist Party President of France 1981-95 |
| General H. Norman Schwarzkopf | American General in charge of Gulf War (1991) |
| George H. W. Bush | President; wins Gulf War; popularity hurt by bad economy |
| Helmut Kohl | German Chancellor 1982-98; architect of German reunification |
| Jack Kemp | Bush Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; known for idea of "free enterprise zones" in inner-city |
| Lech Walesa | labor leader of Polish labor union Solidarity |
| Lloyd Bentsen | Democratic Vice Presidential nominee 1988 |
| Manuel Noriega | Panamanian strong-man; ousted by U.S. military force in 1989 |
| Margaret Thatcher | British Prime Minister 1979-90 |
| Michael Dukakis | 1988 failed Democratic Presidential nominee |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | last Soviet Premier 1985-91; attempted to reform USSR |
| Rodney King | African-American beaten by cops in Los Angeles |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraqi dictator who invades Kuwait |
| William J. Bennett | Under Bush, served as Drug Czar |
| Willie Horton | Convict who was let out on furlough by Dukakis and committed murder; used in Bush ad |
