Famous Quitters!

• Bell, Art

  The original host of the eerie radio show "Coast to Coast AM"

• Burghoff, Gary

  "Radar" O'Reilly on TV's M*A*S*H

• Caruso, David

  That redheaded guy who quit N.Y.P.D. Blue

• Gingrich, Newt

  Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1995-1999

• Halliwell, Geri

  The red-haired "Ginger Spice" of the Spice Girls

• Jordan, Michael

  The super-duper-star guard for the Chicago Bulls

• King Edward VIII

  King of England who abdicated to marry a divorced American

• Long, Shelley

  Diane on the TV show Cheers

• Muskie, Edmund

  U.S. Senator from Maine, 1959-80

• Nixon, Richard M.

  The U.S. president who resigned after the Watergate scandal

• Palin, Sarah

  John McCain's vice-presidential candidate in 2008

• Perot, Ross

  The wealthy Texan who founded EDS and ran for president in 1992 and 1996

• Seinfeld, Jerry

  Star of the TV sitcom Seinfeld

• Simpson, Wallis

  The woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne

• Stevenson, McLean

  Lt. Col. Henry Blake on TV's M*A*S*H

• Vazquez, Mario

  The contestant who dropped out of 2005's American Idol

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