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Person Of The Year: Some Background

机译：年度人物：背景

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Timing is everything, so goes the adage, and that certainly was the case a few months ago when I kicked off the process for Aviation Week editors to follow toward selecting our 2008 Person of the Year. After several weeks of compiling names and spirited discussion, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates emerged as the clear choice of my fellow journalists. Their rationale was that both the short- and long-term impact of bold, controversial decisions he made in the first 10 months of the year were too significant, too far-reaching to come to any other conclusion. And I agreed. Mind you, all of these internal deliberations were playing out in the run-up to the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election, and growing speculation within the aerospace/defense community about who might be tapped to be the next Defense secretary. Gates seemed like an odds-on favorite if Sen. John McCain pulled off an upset victory. But few of us, including.me, could have imagined Gates being asked by President-elect Barack Obama to stay on. To add to our good fortune, Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler's request for an in-depth interview with Gates was granted at the same time that Deputy Managing Editor-Defense Michael Bruno and Congressional Editor John M. Doyle were deep into their reporting for the Person of the Year stories on which they and Amy collaborated.
机译：时机决定了一切，谚语也是如此。几个月前，当我启动《航空周刊》编辑程序以选择我们的2008年度人物时，情况确实如此。经过几周的姓名汇编和热烈讨论，美国国防部长盖茨（Robert M. Gates）成为我其他记者的明确选择。他们的理由是，他在今年头10个月做出的大胆而有争议的决定的短期和长期影响都太大了，太深远了，无法得出任何其他结论。我同意了。请注意，所有这些内部讨论都在11月4日美国总统大选前夕进行，并且航空航天/国防界越来越多的人猜测谁可能被选为下一任国防部长。如果参议员约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）取得令人沮丧的胜利，盖茨似乎是个败家子。但是，包括.me在内的我们很少有人能想象到当选总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）要求盖茨留下来。五角大楼资深编辑艾米·巴特勒（Amy Butler）要求对盖茨进行深入采访，这是我们的好运。与此同时，副总编辑-国防部长迈克尔·布鲁诺（Michael Bruno）和国会编辑约翰·M·道尔（John M. Doyle）深入报道了《人物》杂志他们和艾米合作的年度故事。

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