On Sunday, TIME publicly announced that President George W. Bush has been named the magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2004.
For sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes—and ours—on his faith in the power of leadership, George W. Bush is TIME’s 2004 Person of the Year.
Bloomberg’s Chris Dolmetsch and Cecile Daurat have a roundup on some facts about the “person” choice, where they point out that Bush “is the 12th person to be chosen more than once and the eighth president to be named multiple times.”
