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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- Los Angeles correspondent Jeanne McDowell caught up with
- Donald Trump in the winter of 1987. It was the weekend of the
- Preservation Ball in Palm Beach, Fla., and Trump, the subject of
- this week's Profile section, invited McDowell to fly there with
- him from New York aboard his recently acquired Boeing 727.
- Twenty months later McDowell was once again airborne with
- Trump, this time diving and rising around the Manhattan skyline
- in Trump's French Puma helicopter. If Trump is not a
- comfortable interview for those with queasy stomachs, neither
- is he an easy subject when it comes to probing the mysteries of
- what makes Donald run.
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- "Trump is a tough interview," says McDowell. "He is not, by
- his own admission, an introspective man. Contemplating the
- meaning of life is not his thing." What does Trump like to talk
- about? "His deals," says McDowell. "He's the quintessential
- salesman." Ever eager to show off what he owns, Trump escorted
- McDowell through his 118-room hideaway in Palm Beach, happily
- pointing out some of the valuables that he acquired when he
- purchased the 17.5-acre estate, furnishings and all, for a
- "bargain" $7 million in 1985. "Do you believe this?" he asked,
- brandishing a gold dinner plate. "I make great deals." Cross
- him, however, and the frisky golden retriever can begin to
- snarl.
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- Trump, the 21st person to be featured in TIME's Profile
- section, is the department's first cover subject. Since the
- section was introduced 14 months ago, TIME staffers have
- traveled to northern India to interview the Dalai Lama, to
- London to speak with hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders and to
- Cambridge, England, to explore the cosmos with physicist
- Stephen Hawking. "Since the magazine's founding, one of TIME's
- great strengths has been to give readers a very strong and
- multidimensional look at people," says executive editor Ronald
- Kriss. "Our aim is not just to chronicle what they say and do
- but to convey their strengths, their weaknesses, their
- idiosyncrasies."
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- So, get set to fly with "the Donald," as Trump's wife Ivana
- sometimes calls him. You may think you know Trump already, but
- this trip will show you a different side of a man who has come
- to embody the acquisitive '80s.
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