[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Disbelief

Neither Hussein nor Bin Laden has been Man (or Person) of the year. There was a
rumor that Bin Laden was going to be named for 2001, but Time blinked and named
Giuliani instead. Where were you guys in 2000, when W was first cited?

*       1927: Charles Lindbergh
*       1928: Walter Chrysler
*       1929: Owen Young
*       1930: Mahatma Gandhi
*       1931: Pierre Laval
*       1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*       1933: Hugh Johnson
*       1934: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2nd time)
*       1935: Haile Selassie
*       1936: Wallis Simpson [sic]
*       1937: Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong May-ling [sic]
*       1938: Adolf Hitler
*       1939: Joseph Stalin
*       1940: Winston Churchill
*       1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (3rd time)
*       1942: Joseph Stalin (2nd time)
*       1943: George Marshall
*       1944: Dwight Eisenhower
*       1945: Harry Truman
*       1946: James F. Byrnes
*       1947: George Marshall (2nd time)
*       1948: Harry Truman (2nd time)
*       1949: Winston Churchill (2nd time)
*       1950: The American Fighting-Man
*       1951: Mohammed Mossadegh
*       1952: Queen Elizabeth II [sic]
*       1953: Konrad Adenauer
*       1954: John Dulles
*       1955: Harlow Curtice
*       1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter
*       1957: Nikita Khrushchev
*       1958: Charles De Gaulle
*       1959: Dwight Eisenhower (2nd time)
*       1960: U.S. scientists [sic]
*       1961: John F. Kennedy
*       1962: Pope John XXIII
*       1963: Martin Luther King Jr.
*       1964: Lyndon Johnson
*       1965: William Westmoreland
*       1966: Twenty-Five and Under [sic]
*       1967: Lyndon Johnson (2nd time)
*       1968: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders
*       1969: The Middle Americans [sic]
*       1970: Willy Brandt
*       1971: Richard Nixon
*       1972: Richard Nixon (2nd time) and Henry Kissinger
*       1973: John Sirica
*       1974: King Faisal
*       1975: American Women [sic]
*       1976: Jimmy Carter
*       1977: Anwar Sadat
*       1978: Deng Xiaoping
*       1979: Ayatollah Khomeini
*       1980: Ronald Reagan
*       1981: Lech Walesa
*       1982: The Computer [sic]
*       1983: Ronald Reagan (2nd time) and Yuri Andropov
*       1984: Peter Ueberroth
*       1985: Deng Xiaoping (2nd time)
*       1986: Corazon Aquino
*       1987: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
*       1988: Endangered Earth ("Planet of the Year")  
*       1989: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2nd time)
*       1990: George H. W. Bush
*       1991: Ted Turner
*       1992: Bill Clinton
*       1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Yasser Arafat, and Yitzhak Rabin
*       1994: Pope John Paul II
*       1995: Newt Gingrich
*       1996: David Ho
*       1997: Andy Grove
*       1998: Bill Clinton (2nd time) and Kenneth Starr
--------------------------------------------------------------
Persons of the Year

*       1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos
*       2000: George W. Bush
*       2001: Rudolph Giuliani
*       2002: The whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom, Sherron Watkins of
Enron, and Coleen Rowley of the FBI
*       2003: The American Soldier
*       2004: George W. Bush (2nd time)
--------------------------------------------------------------
* Winston Churchill was Man of the Half-Century (1950) and Albert Einstein
Person of the Century.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Paul
Mutton College Archivist
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html

Other related posts: