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In the 1960's, Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK), brother to President John F. Kennedy, bid to be the 1968 Democratic nominee for President. After winning the California Democratic Primary on June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was mortally wounded by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy had served as a close advisor to JFK, a U.S. Attorney General from 1961-1964, and a U.S. Senator from New York from 1965 until his death in 1968.

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Barry Goldwater and William Miller were the 1964 Republican presidential and vice presidential candidate respectively. Barry Goldwater was the Senator of Arizona and William Miller was a New York politician in the U.S. House of Representatives. Unfortunately, Goldwater and Miller lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon B. Johnson with only 38.47% of the votes.

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Evelle J. Younger ran for Governor of California in 1978 as the Republican candidate. He lost the election to the incumbent, Democrat Jerry Brown, by a wide margin. Younger had been serving as California’s Attorney General since 1971, where he was instrumental in shaping the California Environmental Quality Act. He had also worked as an FBI agent, a judge, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, and an actor in legal dramas. His wife, Mildred, was a well-known political activist.

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Evelle J. Younger ran for Governor of California in 1978 as the Republican candidate. He lost the election to the incumbent, Democrat Jerry Brown, by a wide margin. Younger had been serving as California’s Attorney General since 1971, where he was instrumental in shaping the California Environmental Quality Act. He had also worked as an FBI agent, a judge, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, and an actor in legal dramas. His wife, Mildred, was a well-known political activist.

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Evelle J. Younger ran for Governor of California in 1978 as the Republican candidate. He lost the election to the incumbent, Democrat Jerry Brown, by a wide margin. Younger had been serving as California’s Attorney General since 1971, where he was instrumental in shaping the California Environmental Quality Act. He had also worked as an FBI agent, a judge, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, and an actor in legal dramas. His wife, Mildred, was a well-known political activist.

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born in Germany in 1730. He joined the Prussian military at the age of 17, serving as a member of the infantry and as a staff officer. In 1777, he sailed to the United States to join the Continental Army and one year later he was serving under General George Washington at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War. As a soldier, he trained American troops and developed a system for camp sanitation that was still in use 150 years later. In 1778, Steuben's service was officially recognized when General Washington recommended him for Inspector General, an honor that Congress approved days later. He went on to serve during the Battle of Yorktown and was honorably discharged from the military in 1784. After the war he lived in New York, where he died in 1794. 

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Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Before there was a limit on how many times one could be elected as president, FDR won four presidential elections and took America through the Great Depression and WWII. He is considered one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. In April of 1945, FDR suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died at the age of 63.

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Richard J. Daley was an American politician and was Mayor of Chicago for 21 years from 1955 until his death on December 20, 1976.  Daley, a native of Chicago, was a democrat who was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican before quickly moving back to the Democratic side of the aisle after the election.  He also served as Cook County Clerk before his eventual election as mayor of Chicago. O’Hare International Airport, the Sears Tower, and many other large construction projects occurred during Daley’s tenure.  Daley served as mayor for six terms before passing away during his sixth term in 1976.

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Chevy is the colloquial name for the United States automobile manufacturer Chevrolet founded in 1911 by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant in Detroit, Michigan. Chevy was developed to compete with the Ford brand and shortly became a preferred car and truck manufacturer in the United States. The Chevy brand produces a range of vehicles for various uses, though is best known for medium-duty commercial trucks and sports cars.

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Barry Goldwater and William (Bill) Edward Miller ran together and lost the presidential election of 1964, representing the Republican ticket. Goldwater, an Arizona Senator at the time, picked Miller as his vice presidential candidate and the two ran on a campaign of staunch conservatism and anti-communism. They lost to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey after carrying only Goldwater's home state and five states of the Deep South. 

Miller served in the Army during WWII and after returning home, began his political career in earnest. He was elected to the US House of Representatives, representing New York from 1951 to 1965. Even with his lengthy time in Congress, he was not well know when he entered the campaign with Goldwater. Goldwater's main hindrance was that he was seen as an extremist, even by his fellow Republicans. This came across significantly in a May 1964 speech when he stated that nuclear weapons should be used more as conventional weaponry and was later heard to make the offhand comment, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin."