Greek Americans part 1of20. There are about 1.5 million Greek Americans....(More)

Greek Americans part 1of20. There are about 1.5 million Greek Americans. They are among the wealthiest and best educated groups in America. Ike Pappas CBS News legend and Ernie Anastos NYC TV anchor are interviewed. Telly Savalas the Kojak of TV, left us in 1992. We will not forget Senator Paul Tsongas from Massachusetts who left us early at the age of 56. Spiro Agnew the 39th Vice President of the US, won a Bronze Star fighting the Nazis and "number one Hawk" in the Nixon White House, http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Spiro_Agnew.htm Olympia Snowe, is the US Senator from Maine an independent thinker. The 22 year Congressman, John Bradimas, a tireless worker for peace and the Hellenic causes in the late 70s, from Indiana, the House of Representatives Majority Whip, for four years, the founder of the Center for Democracy and reconciliation in the SE Europe in Thessaloniki. Congressman for 20 years George W. Gekas of Pennsylvania. Gus Bilirakis is the Congressman from Florida. Movie director Elia Kazan is no longer with us. Movie actress Nia Vardalos, so talented. The infamous high roller, Nick the Greek Dandolos with his famous quote after losing $4 million to Johnny Moss: "Mr Moss, I have to let you go". Also, Jimmy the Greek Snyder, CBS Sports. Golden Glode winner Tina Fey and Apostolos Fokas the explorer who in 1592 started it all. Demi Moore and Jennifer Aniston the beautiful movie stars and Jeffrey Eugenides the Pulitzer prize winner. In engineering Dr. George A. Proakis is a world class academic in electrical engineering http://ece-classweb.ucsd.edu/comm/comm/proakisbio.pdf and Dr. Constantine A. Balanis from ASU wrote "the book" on antennas http://www.fulton.asu.edu/~balanis/ Kostas Douridas a Greek Canadian with a great website on Greek literature http://durabond.ca/gdouridas/ George Stroumboulopoulos is a Greek Canadian host of "The hour" on CBC and on Canadian MTV http://www.myspace.com/georgestroumboulopoulos(Less)