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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 11
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.
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."
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."
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.