Posted 10:13 AM by Gene

P. S. Here are some of PEOPLE NEWSMAGAZINE'S PEOPLE OF THE YEAR:

1929: Owen D. Young (head of GE and founder of RCA, in the days when Hank and Briton were sucking up to businesspoops)

1931: Pierre Laval

1933: Hugh Samuel Johnson (head of the short-lived National Recovery Administration)

1935: Haile Selassie

1936: The future Duchess of Windsor

1937: Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek

1946: James F. Byrnes

1950: "The American Fighting Man"

1953: Mohammed Mossadegh (short-term PM of Iran, deposed by THE SHAH)

1955: Harlow Herbert Curtice (then head of -- GM)

1956: "The Hungarian Freedom Fighter"

1960: "U. S. Scientists"

1966: "Twenty-Five and Under"

1969: "The Middle Americans"

1974: King Faisal

1975: "The American Woman"

1976: Jimmah

1982: "The Computer"

1983: Yuri Andropov (with Ronald Reagan)

1984: Peter "Retton" Ueberroth!!!!!

1986: Corazon Aquino

1988: "Endangered Earth"

1990: "The Two George Bushes"

1991: TED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1992: Bill Clinton

1993: "The Peacemakers"

1995: Newt Gingrich

1996: Dr. David Ho (an AIDS researcher who helped stop the spread of the disease)

1999: Jeff Bezos!!!!!

2002: "The Whistleblowers"

2003: "The American Soldier"

2004: Dubya

FDR was chosen three times (1932, 1934, 1941). Harry Truman was chosen twice (1945, 1948), as was Gen. Marshall (1943, 1947) and our once favorite president Ike (1944, 1959), and the misbegotten LBJ (1964, 1967). So was Winston Churchill (1940, 1949); so was Uncle Joe (1939, 1942). Hitler was chosen only once (1938), or as many times as TED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Jeff Bezos!!!!! But one less than MIKHAIL!!!!! (1987, 1989)