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People on Time Covers 1974

Wikipedia and Time list the Time magazine covers and with no international covers, my list is shorter than post 2000. Guess the people featured on at least one cover in 1974.
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Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004.
Yasser Arafat
American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma. He served as the governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and three terms in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994.
David Boren
Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
Leonid Brezhnev
American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019.
Jerry Brown
American lawyer and politician who served as the Governor of Arkansas from 197 to 1975 and in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1999.
Dale Bumpers
American politician and attorney who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1974 and as the governor of New York from 1975 to 1982.
Hugh Carey
American intelligence officer who served as Director of the CIA from September 1973 to January 1976.
William Colby
American lawyer, author, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine. He served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives, Senate and as Secretary of Defense. He was one of the first Republicans to support impeaching Nixon.
William Cohen
American lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He was nominated for president in the 1988 election losing to George H. W. Bush.
Michael Dukakis
American actrees who starred in Rosemary's Baby, the Great Gatsby, and Death on the Nile. In the 1980s, she had a personal and working relationship with Woody Allen.
Mia Farrow
First lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
Betty Ford
American politician who served as the US president from 1974 to 1977. He previously served as US vice president from 1973 to 1974. He succeeded to the presidency when Nixon resigned in 1974
Gerald Ford
American Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth. He served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at the age of 77.
John Glenn
American female politician who served as the Governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980.
Ella Grasso
American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Known for "Okie From Muskogee," "The Fightin' Side of Me," and "I Wonder If They Think of Me".
Merle Haggard
American actress.She is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Rhoda.
Valerie Harper
American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. He was the front-runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination until he dropped out amid revelations of extramarital affairs. He represented Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987.
Gary Hart
Daughter of a publishing millionaire family. Known for the events following her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was found and arrested 19 months after being abducted, by which time she was a fugitive wanted for serious crimes committed with members of the group.
Patty Hearst
U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. A Cold War liberal and anti-Communist member of the Democratic Party, he supported higher military spending and a hard line against the Soviet Union, while also supporting social welfare programs, civil rights, and labor unions.
Henry M. Jackson
American professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in the MLB for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels. nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the Athletics and the Yankees.
Reggie Jackson
American attorney and law professor who served as the second special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal.
Leon Jaworski
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Wife of Massachusetts Senator.
Joan Bennett Kennedy
American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as the US secretary of state and national security advisor in the administrations of Nixon and Ford between 1969 and 1977.
Henry Kissinger
U.S. Representative from Illinois. One of seven Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee to vote for articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.
Robert McClory
Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. She helped define an era and a generation with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock".
Joni Mitchell
American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show and her self titled show from 1970–1977.
Mary Tyler Moore
American actor and filmmaker. He won three Academy Awards, for Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and As Good as It Gets and for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He was Oscar-nominated for Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, Reds, Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, A Few Good Men and About Schmidt.
Jack Nicholson
First lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She also served as the second lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 when her husband was vice president.
Pat Nixon
US president from 1969 to 1974. He was as the US vice president from 1953 to 1961. He resigned in 1974
Richard Nixon
American politician from Massachusetts who served as the 47th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987.
Tip O'Neill
The last monarch of Iran. He began ruling the Imperial State of Iran after succeeding his father in 1941 and remained in power until he was overthrown by the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth prime minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He signed the Oslo Accords. In 1994, he won the Nobel Peace Prize together with political rival Peres and Palestinian leader Arafat. He also signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994.
Yitzhak Rabin
American actor and filmmaker. In the 1970s he starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, the Great Gatsby, and All the President's Men.
Robert Redford
American businessman and politician who served as the US vice president from 1974 to 1977
Nelson Rockefeller
American politician. He represented parts of New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. He rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he oversaw the 1974 impeachment hearings against Nixon.
Peter W. Rodino
Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. He signed the Egypt–Israel peace treaty; this won him a share of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Anwar Sadat
American lawyer, who practiced law for many years in Boston with the firm of Hale & Dorr. He was the chief legal counsel for President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
James D. St. Clair
American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975. He also served as Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1971 to 1973. He became America's first Secretary of Energy in 1977, serving until 1979.
James R. Schlesinger
American businessman and philanthropist who served as the US Secretary of the Treasury from 1974 to 1977.
William E. Simon
United States district judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role in the trials stemming from the Watergate scandal. Man of the Year 1973.
John Sirica
Russian writer and prominent Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union. He published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, and was exiled in 1974 due to the publication of The Gulag Archipelago.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
United States representative from California, and later a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He urged Nixon to resign and allow Vice President Gerald Ford to succeed him. He warned Nixon that if he did not resign, he was prepared to vote to impeach Nixon for obstruction of justice.
Charles E. Wiggins
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