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3	->''"Hello, Americans, this is Paul Harvey!"''
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5	Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), known on-air as simply Paul Harvey, was an iconic American radio personality, whose career stretched from immediately after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII all the way to near his death in 2009.
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7	With his distinctive, fatherly voice and presentation, the Tulsa, Oklahoma native was mostly known for his daily ''News and Comment'' broadcast, which began in Chicago in 1944 and aired nationally on ABC Radio from 1951 to 2008. This program featured his distinctive, rather eccentric sign-on ("Hello, Americans, this is Paul Harvey. Stand by for ''NEWS!''") and sign-off ("Paul Harvey... good ''day''!") phrases, a news segment that came in five-minute morning and 15-minute noon editions, and a five-minute ''The Rest of the Story'' segment ("You know what the news is. In a minute, you're going to hear the ''rest'' of the story!"), which was [[{{Spinoff}} spun off]] into its own separate, evening program beginning in 1976.
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9	Harvey's ''News and Comment'' segments, especially during TheNineties and onward, tended to have a retro '30s feel, like they would fit in right after one of [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDelanoRoosevelt FDR]]'s "fireside chats". He would often read aloud script instructions ("onto page ''TWO!''") and he would even read out most of the advertisements himself, which often led to strong personal endorsements, as he disliked advertising for products he didn't use. His ''The Rest of the Story'' segments were usually about little-known factoids of history, usually focusing on an ironic twist of character or outcome, or an otherwise obscure but interesting fact.
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11	Upon Harvey's death, ABC Radio personnel Gil Gross and Doug Limerick carried on with similar formats, as did Mike Huckabee. These were very short-lived.
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14	!!And now, page ''two''!
15	* CelebrityEndorsement: The man really loved his Leatherman, Reveal light bulbs, [=EdenPure=] heaters, Select Comfort beds, Bose radios, and of course...[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Cit-ra-cal!]] He wouldn't dare advertise a product he didn't enjoy personally.
16	* GrandfatherClause: Even as his show became surrounded by political talk like Radio/RushLimbaugh and Radio/NealBoortz or other local hosts, stations continued to carry his three daily shows reliably at 8:30am, noon and in evening drive ("The Rest of the Story"). Stations that dropped him before his death saw longtime listeners flee because of how the show became a regular habit.
17	* GuestHost: Several, most notably his son, Paul Harvey Jr. Other radio hosts such as Gil Gross, Doug Limerick, Paul W. Smith, Ron Chapman, Mort Crim, and Scott Shannon all filled in on occasion (the former two being fellow ABC Radio announcers). Politicians Mike Huckabee, UsefulNotes/MittRomney, Creator/FredThompson, and Tony Snow also got a few turns.
18	* LastOfHisKind: It held out to be the final syndicated radio program that lasted fifteen minutes; others are longer than that.
19	* LongRunners: ''News and Comment'' lasted from 1944 to 2009. That's right, ''65'' years.
20	* ProductPlacement: Sometimes it would take a minute to realize that Harvey's live-read of an ad had begun. That's how persuasive his voice could be.
21	* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: One of his trademarks was reading out the page numbers of his copy ("And now... page ''two''!").
22	* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "Paul Harvey... good ''day''!" and "And ''now'' you know... [[TitleDrop the]] ''[[TitleDrop rest]]'' [[TitleDrop of the story]]!"
23	* VocalEvolution: Surprisingly averted; his delivery barely changed even into the 1990s and 2000s, barring some episodes during his bout with pneumonia when he sounded very rough.
24	* WorkingThroughTheCold: Zig-zagged with the aforementioned pneumonia: sometimes he would host as usual with his voice sounding really rough; other times, he would let someone fill in for him.
25	* YouCantMakeAnOmelette: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkIyBC9SO3Q "sugar candy" commentary]] from 2005 was interpreted by many as being this.
26	-->Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to native Americans. ''Yes'', that was biological warfare! And we used every ''other'' weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous. And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.\
27	And so it goes with most great nation-states, which--feeling guilty about their savage pasts--eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded, and ultimately dominated, by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.
28	* YouKnowWhoSaidThat: Former TropeNamer (Now You Know The Rest Of The Story), and, of course, ''The Rest of the Story'' lived by it.
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31	Paul Harvey... good ''day!''
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