Gene Upshaw, the longtime head of the players union who died last year, discouraged any connection in a 2007 interview.
He was even better known, as longtime head of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
And what would happen to their longtime head, who'd spent a generation stomping on everything the Freedom Party stood for?
The other executive, Terrance Wilson, the longtime head of its corn processing division, has retired, he said.
From 1982 to 1999, he served as the longtime head men's soccer coach at San Diego State University.
He was also the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.
He is best remembered as the longtime head of the powerful Chicago Federation of Labor, from 1906 until his death in 1946.
Hughes arrived in Loudoun County in the early 20th century and was a longtime head of the county's Democrats.
He was also the longtime head of the College of Medicine's psychiatric residency program, and had a private psychiatric practice as well.
He is being replaced by Peter Schneider, his second-in-command and the longtime head of the lucrative animation division.