Proposed cabinet of Dizzy Gillespie, who ran for president in 1964:

• Secretary of State: Duke Ellington
• Director of the CIA: Miles Davis
• Secretary of Defense: Max Roach
• Secretary of Peace: Charles Mingus
• Librarian of Congress: Ray Charles
• Secretary of Agriculture: Louis Armstrong
• Ambassador to the Vatican: Mary Lou Williams
• Travelling Ambassador: Thelonious Monk
• Attorney General: Malcolm X

He said his running mate would be Phyllis Diller. When asked why he was running for president, he said, “Because we need one.”