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- Jan. 25, 1993: From The Publisher
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 2
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- <p> The advent of a new Administration is, quite naturally, a
- time when many news organizations enact their own changing of the
- guard in the White House press room. TIME is among those
- inaugurating a new team, which will be in charge of chronicling
- the ups and downs of the incoming Clinton Administration. But
- we are doing so in a way that tries to combine a fresh
- perspective with historic continuity.
- </p>
- <p> Moving to the White House beat will be Margaret Carlson,
- who has been deputy bureau chief for TIME in Washington.
- Carlson started her career at Legal Times, where she made use
- of her law degree from George Washington University, before
- moving on to Esquire and the New Republic. Since joining TIME
- in 1988, she has written in-depth profiles of personalities
- ranging from presidential candidates Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown
- and Pat Buchanan to actress Katharine Hepburn and comic Billy
- Crystal. "The challenge is to find the politics in Billy Crystal
- and the humor in Bill Clinton," she says. Her most recent
- subject was the relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton,
- in an article that ran in the Man of the Year issue.
- </p>
- <p> Carlson will join veteran White House correspondent
- Michael Duffy, who wrote this week's cover story on Clinton's
- Inauguration. Duffy covered the Pentagon and Congress before
- being assigned to the White House in 1988. A graduate of Oberlin
- College, he co-wrote the 1992 book Marching in Place, an
- analysis of the Bush Administration. (His co-author, Dan
- Goodgame, will be leaving the White House beat to become TIME's
- economic correspondent.) Duffy thinks Clinton will preside under
- more pressure than his predecessor. "Bush basically enjoyed a
- free ride for three years," he says. "But Clinton will have to
- live up to enormous expectations immediately."
- </p>
- <p> Both Carlson and Duffy think it will be important for
- Clinton to set the tone for his Administration during the first
- year. "He'll have to put on his stamp before the honeymoon ends
- and reality intrudes," says Carlson. In that regard, adds
- Duffy, "it will be interesting to see how Clinton balances the
- demands of his party's traditional constituencies with his
- pledge to be a new-style Democrat." TIME's new team will have
- to do some balancing of its own. No problem, says Duffy. "We're
- both very curious about what makes Clinton tick." The trick,
- says Carlson, "will be to share the agony and ecstasy in equal
- amounts." Like the new team that will occupy 1600 Pennsylvania
- Avenue, Carlson and Duffy are eager to get started.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth P. Valk
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