"Trust and love are wonderful, but don't forget the earrings." -Estee Lauder, founder of the Lauder cosmetics empire, advising mothers on what they should bequeath to their daughters-in-law
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year