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Going Back
Listen to excerpts from TIME's 1932 and 1942 Person of the Year cover stories about former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
MAN OF THE YEAR, 1940
From the TIME Magazine issue dated January 6, 1941
This Person of the Year episode features Winston Churchill, the master statesman, who in 1940, stood alone against fascism and renewed the world's faith in the superiority of democracy. Churchill was named TIME's Man of the Year for 1940.
MAN OF THE YEAR, 1961
From the TIME Magazine issue dated January 5, 1962
This Person of the Year episode features John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, who became the country's youngest-elected and first Roman Catholic President after a narrow-margin victory in the popular vote over Richard M Nixon. Kennedy was named TIME's Man of the Year for 1961 following his crucial first year in office.
YEAR OF THE COMPUTER, 1982
From the TIME Magazine issue dated January 4, 1983
In making its selection for Man of the Year for 1982, TIME reasoned that: "There are some occasions when the most significant force in a year's news is not a single individual but a process, and a widespread recognition that this process is changing the course of all other processes." TIME's Man of the Year for 1982 - the greatest influence for good or evil - is not a man at all. It is a machine: the computer.
PERSON OF THE YEAR: PANEL DEBATE
A lively Person of the Year panel debate moderated by TIME managing editor Rick Stengel. The panel discussion recently took place at the Time & Life building in New York and featured Brian Williams, Arianna Huffington, Tom DeLay, Emilio Estevez and Newark, New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker.
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