Without a lot of thinking my choices would be:

Confucius
Sun Tzu
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
Julius Caesar
Genghis Khan
Leonardo Da Vinci

You can call them a strange mix

Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
George Washington
Auguste Escoffier
George Patton
Ronald Reagan

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Genghis Khan

I actually though about him as well. Assuming he wouldn’t go all murdery on me.

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Genghis Khan

I actually though about him as well. Assuming he wouldn’t go all murdery on me.

My cousin Nancy (a hard-core Democrat) says I'm to the right of him. (She's left of Teddy Kennedy.)

flashguy

Meriwether Lewis, General Doolittle, Winston Churchill

1. Jesus of Nazareth
2. Miyamoto Musashi
3. Bruce Lee

Teddy Roosevelt

General John S. Mosby

Butch Cassidy

Harry S Truman.

Erwin Rommel.

Robert E. Lee.

Capt Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger
Frank Hamer
Alvin York
Teddy Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

Niccolò Machiavelli

Yamamoto (not for a plane ride, though)

Christ.

Well, I got over the minimum 3

Founders: Franklin, Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson

Generals: Guderian, Patton, Rommel, Hannibal, Alexander, Belisarius, Julius Caesar, Lee, Thomas, Hindenberg, Ludendorff

Thinkers: Rand, Descartes, Epictetus, Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Edison, Darwin, Da Vinci, Archimedes

Other: Lincoln, Churchill, Bismarck, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Shakespeare

Well, of course, my Lord Jesus Christ. But, the Bible tells me I'm gonna spend eternity with him in the near future, so maybe I ought to spread it out a bit.

So, William Boyd, Hopalong Cassidy. I'd like to tell him how much pleasure he has brought me over the last six or so decades.

George O'Brien, an actor that was also a decorated WWI Naval stretcher bearer with the Marines, the light heavyweight champ of, IIRC, the Pacific Fleet, served in WW1, WW2, Korea and Viet Nam. A man's man and I'd like to thank him, too. He's given me many hours of pleasure with his movies.

Lastly, Roy Rogers, a very good man, and his hobby was trapshooting (mine, too). Shooting a few rounds with him would be great fun.

Bob

3.....

Jesus Christ

Friedrich Der Grosse

President Ronald Reagan

Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, et al: the founding fathers.

How do that many wealthy, successful, uber-brilliant, iron-willed men all converge together at one point in time, willing to trade their comfortable lifestyles away for a grand experiment that could have cost them their lives and everything they owned?



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I’m not sure how historical or famous they need to be...

My mom. She died when I was 22. I would love to tell her all about the last 24 years. I would trade two hours of her time for the 72 hours I could have with the following (assuming there are no language barriers):

Charles Schwab
Julius Caesar
Jack Ruby

Teddy Roosevelt

Ronald Reagan

Carlos Hathcock

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Gaston Glock
Adolf Hitler
Sun Tzu (I’m reading his book right now)
Soichiro Honda
Nicky Hayden
Ho Chi Minh
Theodore Roosevelt
Barry Sheene
Robin Williams
Donald Trump
Walter Kaaden
Ernst Degner

Plato

Thomas Jefferson

Howard Hughes.

Neil Armstrong. He knows the truth!