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Time magazine has given its Person of the Year award to United States President George W Bush.
Time credited him with "sticking to his guns" and persuading voters "this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years".
Mr Bushs clear re-election in November contrasted with a disputed win in 2000.
Times annual award comes as Mr Bush prepares for his second inauguration, and US forces in Iraq struggle to quell violence ahead of the January election.
The magazines year-end ritual goes back to 1927, when aviator Charles Lindbergh was given the title.
Last years Person of the Year was the "American soldier" who bore the duty of "living and dying for a countrys most fateful decisions".
Time managing editor Jim Kelly said: "Obviously many supporters of the president will be pleased, many people who do not support the president will probably sigh.
"But even those who may not have voted for him will acknowledge that this is one of the more influential presidents of the last 50 years."
Mr Kelly added that the president had reshaped "the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style".
In an interview with the magazine, Mr Bush said he owed his victory over Democratic candidate John Kerry to his foreign policy and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"The election was about the use of American influence," he said.
The presidents approval rating stands at 49% - the level where it stood in the lead-up to the election - according to a Time poll unveiled on Sunday.
Mr Bush had already received Time magazines yearly accolade after his first, controversial election in 2000.
He joins six other US presidents who twice won the award - Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
Three-time recipient Franklin D Roosevelt - who was elected four times - holds the record.
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George Walker Bush (George Walker Bush, the study said Bush) July 6, 1946 Born in Connecticut, moved to Texas childhood in Midland, Texas and grew up in Houston. His grandfather was a wealthy Wall Street banker, was a Republican senator. His father is the 51st United States President George Bush. Yale University in 1968, received his BA in History from 1968 to 1973 as a Texas Air National Guard fighter pilot in 1975, an MBA from Harvard University. 1975 to 1986, Bush ran a Texas company engaged in oil exploration. 1989 to 1994, he was Texas "shepherd" the main partner of the baseball team.
