"If it's on his mind, it's got to be on the screen." -Hal Gurnee, former Tonight Show director, on Jack Paar, emotional and opinionated host of NBC's late-night show from 1957 to 1962
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
Jack Paar