• during his 1988 presidential campaign, Congressman Ron Paul (pictured) received the Libertarian Party's nomination over another candidate who wanted to "put handcuffs on all IRS agents"?
• United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls, placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls?

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John McCain

• John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen (insignia pictured) when he was wounded during the 1967 USS Forrestal fire off the coast of Vietnam?
• Gregory S. Martin (pictured) was the first non-Navy officer nominated to head the United States Pacific Command, but withdrew after Senator John McCain questioned whether he had "the quality to command"?

Evan Bayh

• despite a buildup that lasted nearly two years, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh's (pictured) 2008 presidential campaign officially lasted two weeks?

Kay Bailey Hutchison

• in 1967, Ray Miller, a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas?