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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 11
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- It wasn't the first time a member of the Bush family had
- turned the tables on a journalist, but senior writer Margaret
- Carlson was nonetheless a bit startled when Barbara Bush opened
- the interview by quizzing Carlson about the inner workings of
- TIME. "She was genuinely curious about the magazine," reports
- Carlson, who visited Mrs. Bush while she was still packing
- boxes at the vice-presidential mansion on Embassy Row.
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- Once the interview was under way, however, the questions
- Carlson had worked out with White House correspondent Michael
- Duffy drew surprisingly candid answers from the new First Lady.
- Carlson predicts that Mrs. Bush will be neither a demi-Cabinet
- member like Rosalynn Carter nor a backstage impresario like
- Nancy Reagan. "Mrs. Bush is so sure of herself, she has no need
- to prove anything," says Carlson. "She is as comfortable
- discussing the merits of one campaign ad over another as she is
- pouring tea."
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- Carlson found her way to Washington under the inspiration of
- consumer advocate Ralph Nader. She wrote a book called How to
- Get Your Car Repaired Without Getting Gypped. The best-selling
- paperback financed law school and eventually led Carlson to
- reporting and editing stints at the Washington Weekly, Esquire
- magazine and the New Republic. Joining TIME last year, Carlson
- started right off writing about the 1988 campaign, including
- stories on the presidential conventions. She had, she recalls,
- no trouble trading law for the fourth estate. "A lawyer works
- on cases that won't be settled for years," says Carlson. "TIME
- has a deadline every week."
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- 1968. Bobby Kennedy dead, Martin Luther King Jr. dead.
- Apollo 8, the Tet offensive, flower power. Drugs, sex and rock
- 'n' roll. Gone, perhaps, but never forgotten, that turbulent,
- mind-blowing time continues to reverberate in the national
- consciousness. TIME profiles a pivotal moment in history with
- the publication of 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation.
- Full of the pictures that indelibly marked a nation, this
- special collector's book recaptures a year when innocence died
- and the world turned upside down.
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