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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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.
"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.
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."
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.