"There'll be no slapstick and no horror, no matter how innocently it's presented." - Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo, in 1955, when his CBS children's show made its debut
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