[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Disbelief
- From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 20 Dec 2004 19:40:16 PST
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
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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)
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* Winston Churchill was Man of the Half-Century (1950) and Albert Einstein
Person of the Century.
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Robert Paul
Mutton College Archivist
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