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Aug. 24, 1992: From the Publisher
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Aug. 24, 1992 George Bush: The Fight of His Life
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> Much like a strong presidential ticket, covering the White
House for TIME requires teamwork, indefatigable energy and more
than a dollop of personal chemistry. Which brings us to
Washington correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame--the
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of the presidential beat--who
have been covering the Bush Administration together since
Inauguration Day 1989. At first glance, they are, well,
different from each other: the voluble, wisecracking Duffy is
the inside-the-Beltway political junkie, while Goodgame, a
Mississippi native and Rhodes scholar, is the laid-back
outsider, always searching for the Big Picture.
</p>
<p> Duffy and Goodgame were not immune to the primary
occupational hazard of the White House beat: frustration with
the steady diet of manufactured events. Amid the tedium of 1989,
Duffy recalls, "we discovered that Bush was popular not despite
his lack of action but because of it--and what's more, we
learned it was largely by design." From this insight grew the
ultimate Duffy-Goodgame collaboration, their book chronicling
Bush's first term, Marching in Place, just published by Simon
& Schuster and excerpted in this preconvention issue.
</p>
<p> Collaborating on a book enhanced the week-to-week
journalism of Duffy and Goodgame. Explains Goodgame: "It forced
us to work far more closely together, sharing every detail,
every interview, every hunch with each other." Working so
closely also pointed up the odd-couple nature of the
Duffy-Goodgame relationship. Duffy likes to write early and,
when circumstances permit, quit early for a gourmet dinner like
take-out pizza. In contrast, Goodgame does his best writing late
at night, often after downing several bowls of his homemade
seafood gumbo.
</p>
<p> Fostering in-house book writers is a long TIME tradition.
Assistant managing editor Walter Isaacson is the author of
Kissinger: A Biography, which will be published by Simon &
Schuster next month. Isaacson says, "Henry Kissinger was very
generous in the time and access he gave me. But it's not an
authorized biography, and indeed it's quite critical in places."
This fall TIME reporter David Seideman will examine the
spotted-owl environmental controversy in his forthcoming book
Showdown at Opal Creek. Not all TIME authors compose weighty
public-policy tomes. On a lighter note, senior writer William
A. Henry III recently published The Great One: The Life and
Legend of Jackie Gleason. And away we go.
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<p>-- Elizabeth P. Valk
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