ask not what your country can do for you
ask what you can do for your country
[Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten iconic male Americans and in 1980
Polly announces that he is coming back
again he wants to fight for the title
well our first list included both men
and women we don’t spend every minute
together that’s for sure
for this list we will only include male
citizens of the United States of America
that have contributed to the Civic good
of the country and/or best represent it
his raw talent soon gave Dodger fans
reason to look beyond his skin code
number 10 Bill Gates in 1986
Bill Gates took his company public he
held 45% of the stock which made him a
billionaire at the age of 31
yet Gates never became complacent while
Steve Jobs is also an American tech icon
we had to give the nod to America’s and
the world’s richest men William Henry
Bill Gates the third software giant
turned philanthropist on May 22nd 1990
Microsoft launched windows 3.0 this new
and improved version swiftly became a
best-seller as co-founder of the world’s
major PC software company Microsoft
Gates revolutionized the computer and
technology industries come out with
these little boxes these nice little
software packages and you stick them in
your computer and you either have fun
using it and it helps you get things
done or not
in fact Microsoft became the primary
personal computer operating system used
everywhere from school classrooms to
bank ATMs and even NASA I do think
philanthropy is is going to grow and
take some of these things government’s
just not good at working on and
discovering and and and shine some light
in the right direction later in life
Gates along with his wife Melinda
founded the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation the world’s largest private
charitable foundation designed to help
combat poverty promote education reform
and
that was both poop water absolutely
unbelievable bill gates I can’t believe
it that to me number nine
Muhammad Ali once known as the people’s
champion no matter what Floyd Mayweather
may say to lay on the ropes and take
punishment let it be entire yourself out
from beating you and they basically
fatigue you hit them with a few punches
and then go down and quit Muhammad Ali
is still one of the world’s greatest if
not the greatest professional
heavyweight champion I stopped Joe
Frazier I stopped drives Foreman Ryan
never stopped running
excuse me bite my lip but it’s so
colorful didn’t they get mad but perhaps
all these greatest achievements were
made outside the ring coming on this
mission is something that I do myself
indeed a champion of American civil
rights Muslim Americans and the anti-war
movement Ali was a radical who rattled
the US establishment just by changing
his so-called slave name Cassius play to
the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali most of
the time he gets up early at 5:00 to
pray in terms of civil rights and in the
ring the champ certainly floated like a
butterfly and sting like a bee
ultimately his message was a love of
life a love of people reminding us of
our own humanity number 8 Mark Twain he
was the Lincoln of American literature
and his days were filled with
author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and the Great American Novel Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn Samuel Langhorne
Clemens better known by his pen name
Mark Twain is one of America’s most
recognizable authors worldwide people
were all very willing to come out and
see Mark Twain perform and it was a
brilliant success right from the
beginning he sold out 1500 seats in San
Francisco Twain’s work exemplified the
bold spirit while and humor of not only
the south but of the American frontier
Wayne single-handedly embodied a unique
voice in American literature
as Mark Twain dared to let a blogger
illiterate we would now call him a
juvenile delinquent tell his own story
no one would ever thought of doing such
a thing in a novel capturing the charm
of spoken colloquialisms and the pre
Civil War landscape of the West today
his works remain as timeless as
America’s spirit of adventure and
triumph he didn’t quit he lived it all
he experienced at all and he took the
blows that came his way number seven
Henry Ford he was an American legend who
gave us mass production the Model T the
v8 the founder of the Ford Motor Company
this 20th century automotive
industrialist once said that if asked
people would have probably wanted faster
horses so Henry Ford and his engineers
came up with a revolutionary new idea
the moving assembly line despite this
board revolutionized the American
transportation industry by developing
and mass producing the first cars
through the assembly line by
manufacturing affordable cars like the
Model T Ford turned a once luxury good
that only the rich could afford into an
everyday product the Model T was an
astounding success it went on sale in
October 1980 and within a few months
Ford was forced to announce that the
company couldn’t accept new orders the
combination of inexpensively
mass-producing expensive goods and
paying competitive employee wages is now
known as Fordism and this optimistic
world view had Ford believing that
industry and
tourism would pave the road towards
world peace and in Detroit motorists
were asked to come to a complete stop at
the time the automaker’s body was being
lowered into the ground for that second
and the automobiles came to a stop
Detroit was returned to the way Henry
Ford had found it
number 6 Neil Armstrong to represent the
United States and our first attempt to
take man 2 he took one small step for
man and one giant leap for mankind
as the first human to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong wasn’t only an astronaut
but an aerospace engineer naval aviator
and professor on one of Armstrong’s
flights a failure of the fuel system
meant he lost control he was lucky to
escape with his life at the height of
the Cold War the space race became a
tilting point between democracy and
communism when one man dared to
literally go to the stars America
triumphed as millions around the world
tuned in to watch Armstrong’s first
steps on Earth’s only natural satellite
this meant that the sky was no longer
the limit of where America and the world
could reach but for me the thing that
really stands out is how he handled this
role that fate gave him of being a world
icon number 5 Thomas Edison we live in a
world that Edison invented also called
The Wizard of Menlo Park Thomas Edison
will forever be known as the man that
invented the electric light bulb there
can be no particle of doubt in anyone’s
mind raved the New York Herald that the
electric light is a success and a
permanent one with over a thousand
patents in his lifetime
at one point applying for 400 per year
Edison was not only a prolific inventor
but a savvy businessman as well among
Edison’s greatest inventions are the
phonograph and motion picture cameras
firing away at tiny glass balls as
Edison’s latest invention captured the
action in real time by cementing his
legacy unintended edison also had a
cement company that built the original
Yankee Stadium and during World War 1
Edison was a consultant for America’s
naval defensive systems indeed Edison
truly helps to illuminate America’s
future
Edison showed that anything could be
changed and everything could be
controlled number 4 Walt Disney now a
great deal of time sweat and a few tears
were expended on all this but there’s a
lot of satisfaction in developing ideas
into realities uncle Walt was a business
tycoon cartoonist animator voice actor
and film producer and inspired
generations of imaginations since they
were opened 7 million people have
enjoyed it his talents as an animator
and entrepreneur helped give birth to
such iconic characters as Mickey Mouse
and feature-length classics such as Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs and
Cinderella
[Music]
with the opening of the Disney theme
parks places where the dreams of the
young and young at heart come true
Disney became a globally known brand
name and destination as well as a pop
culture icon that’s synonymous around
the world with America
[Music]
number three Franklin Delano Roosevelt
while many may fondly remember the
Reagan era you and I have a rendezvous
with destiny Ronald Reagan stood on the
shoulders of the 32nd President of the
United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[Music]
FDR served the American people as
commander-in-chief and swept four
presidential elections before leading
America to victory in World War two
Roosevelt guided the country through the
Great Depression and oversaw America’s
post depression recovery with the
introduction of the New Deal and
Roseville gave the impression that he
knew what the country needed and he was
going to give it to them
perhaps FDR’s greatest legacy the New
Deal provided relief to the
underprivileged and sought to the
recovery and reform of the American
economy that also expanded the role of
government in his first six months he
advocated tax relief for farmers and
cheap electric power for consumers these
domestic programs provided and protected
millions of out-of-work Americans
through Social Security and Welfare some
are still active to this day Franklin
Delano Roosevelt had led Americans
through the Great Depression and the
greatest war in history
now along railroad tracks from Georgia
to New York they gathered to say goodbye
number two Michael Jackson
[Music]
not since Elvis has an American artist
reached international stardom the way
Michael Jackson did singer songwriter
producer and dancer
Jackson’s thrilling career seemed
preordained since he was basically bred
to join the music industry as part of
the Jackson 5
[Music]
but it wasn’t until his milestone solo
album Thriller which became the first
album to produce seven top-ten hits on
the Billboard Hot 100 that he truly
became the king of Pop
[Music]
[Music]
driller has also sold over 65 million
copies around the world with about 29
million of those in the US alone so
there’s no denying that
MJ changed the face of American music
[Music]
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable mentions his pioneering
achievements both on and off the field
broke down racial barriers and helped
awaken America’s conscience who taught
you to hate the shape of your nose and
the shape of your lip
who taught you to hate yourself from the
top of your head to the soles of your
feet
[Music]
whistle blowing
[Music]
rent was as close to a star celebrity in
the United States and the late 1860’s
and 1870s as you could have had
number-one Thomas Jefferson and if there
is such a thing as an American spirit
then he is it as the main author of the
Declaration of Independence Thomas
Jefferson laid the foundation for the
birth of the United States and is
considered one of America’s founding
fathers what country can preserve its
liberties if their rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people
preserve the spirit of resistance
Jefferson was influential in spreading
the principle of republicanism and
opposition to slavery it’s like having
the wolf by the ears we can either hang
on nor let go that were trapped we’re
stuck with slavery and slavery is a
poison which is getting at the heart of
the American experiment he became
America’s first Secretary of State under
George Washington before breaking off to
form the Democratic Republican Party and
eventually becoming America’s third
president himself
Jefferson acted quickly to undo what he
considered the excesses of his
predecessor he pardoned everyone locked
up under this addition act Jefferson
later founded the University of Virginia
in the state where he had previously
served as wartime governor without
Jefferson there would be no United
States and hence no Great Americans and
that’s why he tops our list he was a
statesman who was twice elected
president of the United States but did
not think his presidency with listing
among the achievements on his gravestone
do you agree with our list
yes which Yankee do you think belongs on
the list this close shame revealed
Armstrong’s uncanny ability to always
remain calm under pressure for more
civic-minded top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
and may God bless america
you
[Music]
ask what you can do for your country
[Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten iconic male Americans and in 1980
Polly announces that he is coming back
again he wants to fight for the title
well our first list included both men
and women we don’t spend every minute
together that’s for sure
for this list we will only include male
citizens of the United States of America
that have contributed to the Civic good
of the country and/or best represent it
his raw talent soon gave Dodger fans
reason to look beyond his skin code
number 10 Bill Gates in 1986
Bill Gates took his company public he
held 45% of the stock which made him a
billionaire at the age of 31
yet Gates never became complacent while
Steve Jobs is also an American tech icon
we had to give the nod to America’s and
the world’s richest men William Henry
Bill Gates the third software giant
turned philanthropist on May 22nd 1990
Microsoft launched windows 3.0 this new
and improved version swiftly became a
best-seller as co-founder of the world’s
major PC software company Microsoft
Gates revolutionized the computer and
technology industries come out with
these little boxes these nice little
software packages and you stick them in
your computer and you either have fun
using it and it helps you get things
done or not
in fact Microsoft became the primary
personal computer operating system used
everywhere from school classrooms to
bank ATMs and even NASA I do think
philanthropy is is going to grow and
take some of these things government’s
just not good at working on and
discovering and and and shine some light
in the right direction later in life
Gates along with his wife Melinda
founded the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation the world’s largest private
charitable foundation designed to help
combat poverty promote education reform
and
that was both poop water absolutely
unbelievable bill gates I can’t believe
it that to me number nine
Muhammad Ali once known as the people’s
champion no matter what Floyd Mayweather
may say to lay on the ropes and take
punishment let it be entire yourself out
from beating you and they basically
fatigue you hit them with a few punches
and then go down and quit Muhammad Ali
is still one of the world’s greatest if
not the greatest professional
heavyweight champion I stopped Joe
Frazier I stopped drives Foreman Ryan
never stopped running
excuse me bite my lip but it’s so
colorful didn’t they get mad but perhaps
all these greatest achievements were
made outside the ring coming on this
mission is something that I do myself
indeed a champion of American civil
rights Muslim Americans and the anti-war
movement Ali was a radical who rattled
the US establishment just by changing
his so-called slave name Cassius play to
the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali most of
the time he gets up early at 5:00 to
pray in terms of civil rights and in the
ring the champ certainly floated like a
butterfly and sting like a bee
ultimately his message was a love of
life a love of people reminding us of
our own humanity number 8 Mark Twain he
was the Lincoln of American literature
and his days were filled with
author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and the Great American Novel Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn Samuel Langhorne
Clemens better known by his pen name
Mark Twain is one of America’s most
recognizable authors worldwide people
were all very willing to come out and
see Mark Twain perform and it was a
brilliant success right from the
beginning he sold out 1500 seats in San
Francisco Twain’s work exemplified the
bold spirit while and humor of not only
the south but of the American frontier
Wayne single-handedly embodied a unique
voice in American literature
as Mark Twain dared to let a blogger
illiterate we would now call him a
juvenile delinquent tell his own story
no one would ever thought of doing such
a thing in a novel capturing the charm
of spoken colloquialisms and the pre
Civil War landscape of the West today
his works remain as timeless as
America’s spirit of adventure and
triumph he didn’t quit he lived it all
he experienced at all and he took the
blows that came his way number seven
Henry Ford he was an American legend who
gave us mass production the Model T the
v8 the founder of the Ford Motor Company
this 20th century automotive
industrialist once said that if asked
people would have probably wanted faster
horses so Henry Ford and his engineers
came up with a revolutionary new idea
the moving assembly line despite this
board revolutionized the American
transportation industry by developing
and mass producing the first cars
through the assembly line by
manufacturing affordable cars like the
Model T Ford turned a once luxury good
that only the rich could afford into an
everyday product the Model T was an
astounding success it went on sale in
October 1980 and within a few months
Ford was forced to announce that the
company couldn’t accept new orders the
combination of inexpensively
mass-producing expensive goods and
paying competitive employee wages is now
known as Fordism and this optimistic
world view had Ford believing that
industry and
tourism would pave the road towards
world peace and in Detroit motorists
were asked to come to a complete stop at
the time the automaker’s body was being
lowered into the ground for that second
and the automobiles came to a stop
Detroit was returned to the way Henry
Ford had found it
number 6 Neil Armstrong to represent the
United States and our first attempt to
take man 2 he took one small step for
man and one giant leap for mankind
as the first human to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong wasn’t only an astronaut
but an aerospace engineer naval aviator
and professor on one of Armstrong’s
flights a failure of the fuel system
meant he lost control he was lucky to
escape with his life at the height of
the Cold War the space race became a
tilting point between democracy and
communism when one man dared to
literally go to the stars America
triumphed as millions around the world
tuned in to watch Armstrong’s first
steps on Earth’s only natural satellite
this meant that the sky was no longer
the limit of where America and the world
could reach but for me the thing that
really stands out is how he handled this
role that fate gave him of being a world
icon number 5 Thomas Edison we live in a
world that Edison invented also called
The Wizard of Menlo Park Thomas Edison
will forever be known as the man that
invented the electric light bulb there
can be no particle of doubt in anyone’s
mind raved the New York Herald that the
electric light is a success and a
permanent one with over a thousand
patents in his lifetime
at one point applying for 400 per year
Edison was not only a prolific inventor
but a savvy businessman as well among
Edison’s greatest inventions are the
phonograph and motion picture cameras
firing away at tiny glass balls as
Edison’s latest invention captured the
action in real time by cementing his
legacy unintended edison also had a
cement company that built the original
Yankee Stadium and during World War 1
Edison was a consultant for America’s
naval defensive systems indeed Edison
truly helps to illuminate America’s
future
Edison showed that anything could be
changed and everything could be
controlled number 4 Walt Disney now a
great deal of time sweat and a few tears
were expended on all this but there’s a
lot of satisfaction in developing ideas
into realities uncle Walt was a business
tycoon cartoonist animator voice actor
and film producer and inspired
generations of imaginations since they
were opened 7 million people have
enjoyed it his talents as an animator
and entrepreneur helped give birth to
such iconic characters as Mickey Mouse
and feature-length classics such as Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs and
Cinderella
[Music]
with the opening of the Disney theme
parks places where the dreams of the
young and young at heart come true
Disney became a globally known brand
name and destination as well as a pop
culture icon that’s synonymous around
the world with America
[Music]
number three Franklin Delano Roosevelt
while many may fondly remember the
Reagan era you and I have a rendezvous
with destiny Ronald Reagan stood on the
shoulders of the 32nd President of the
United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[Music]
FDR served the American people as
commander-in-chief and swept four
presidential elections before leading
America to victory in World War two
Roosevelt guided the country through the
Great Depression and oversaw America’s
post depression recovery with the
introduction of the New Deal and
Roseville gave the impression that he
knew what the country needed and he was
going to give it to them
perhaps FDR’s greatest legacy the New
Deal provided relief to the
underprivileged and sought to the
recovery and reform of the American
economy that also expanded the role of
government in his first six months he
advocated tax relief for farmers and
cheap electric power for consumers these
domestic programs provided and protected
millions of out-of-work Americans
through Social Security and Welfare some
are still active to this day Franklin
Delano Roosevelt had led Americans
through the Great Depression and the
greatest war in history
now along railroad tracks from Georgia
to New York they gathered to say goodbye
number two Michael Jackson
[Music]
not since Elvis has an American artist
reached international stardom the way
Michael Jackson did singer songwriter
producer and dancer
Jackson’s thrilling career seemed
preordained since he was basically bred
to join the music industry as part of
the Jackson 5
[Music]
but it wasn’t until his milestone solo
album Thriller which became the first
album to produce seven top-ten hits on
the Billboard Hot 100 that he truly
became the king of Pop
[Music]
[Music]
driller has also sold over 65 million
copies around the world with about 29
million of those in the US alone so
there’s no denying that
MJ changed the face of American music
[Music]
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable mentions his pioneering
achievements both on and off the field
broke down racial barriers and helped
awaken America’s conscience who taught
you to hate the shape of your nose and
the shape of your lip
who taught you to hate yourself from the
top of your head to the soles of your
feet
[Music]
whistle blowing
[Music]
rent was as close to a star celebrity in
the United States and the late 1860’s
and 1870s as you could have had
number-one Thomas Jefferson and if there
is such a thing as an American spirit
then he is it as the main author of the
Declaration of Independence Thomas
Jefferson laid the foundation for the
birth of the United States and is
considered one of America’s founding
fathers what country can preserve its
liberties if their rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people
preserve the spirit of resistance
Jefferson was influential in spreading
the principle of republicanism and
opposition to slavery it’s like having
the wolf by the ears we can either hang
on nor let go that were trapped we’re
stuck with slavery and slavery is a
poison which is getting at the heart of
the American experiment he became
America’s first Secretary of State under
George Washington before breaking off to
form the Democratic Republican Party and
eventually becoming America’s third
president himself
Jefferson acted quickly to undo what he
considered the excesses of his
predecessor he pardoned everyone locked
up under this addition act Jefferson
later founded the University of Virginia
in the state where he had previously
served as wartime governor without
Jefferson there would be no United
States and hence no Great Americans and
that’s why he tops our list he was a
statesman who was twice elected
president of the United States but did
not think his presidency with listing
among the achievements on his gravestone
do you agree with our list
yes which Yankee do you think belongs on
the list this close shame revealed
Armstrong’s uncanny ability to always
remain calm under pressure for more
civic-minded top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
and may God bless america
you
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