Paper: Houston Chronicle
Date: Thu 12/27/2007
Section: A
Page: 2
Edition: 2 STAR

NEWSMAKERS / Most admired . . .



They're the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America. Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democratic senator from New York are sharing the honor for a sixth straight year, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll. Results are based on the Dec. 14-16 USA Today/Gallup poll, which asked Americans, without prompting, to say what man and woman ``living today in any part of the world, do [they] admire most?'' Percentages are of number of respondents naming that person.

. . . men

10% ... President George W. Bush

8% ... Former President Bill Clinton

6% ... Former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore

5% ... Sen. Barack Obama

3% ... Rev. Billy Graham

3% ... Nelson Mandela

2% ... Former President George H.W. Bush

2% ... Bill Gates

2% ... Pope Benedict XVI

2% ... Former President Jimmy Carter

. . . women

18% ... Sen. Hillary Clinton

16% ... Oprah Winfrey

5% ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

3% ... Angelina Jolie

3% ... First Lady Laura Bush

2% ... Former British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher

2% ... Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

1% ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

1% ... Maya Angelou

1% ... Queen Elizabeth