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...Then, John, you shouldn't write that report. That's not very smart." Recalls Dean, in two incriminating sentences: "She was right, but her innocence annoyed me. She seemed so far removed from all the shadings of lies that make up political life. " Ed Magnuson...
...midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover treatment. With that, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson quietly began work on his 64th TIME cover story...
...crisis hand, Magnuson came to TIME 16 years ago from the Minneapolis Tribune. There the Phi Beta Kappa journalism graduate of the University of Minnesota (other Minnesota alumni in journalism: Eric Sevareid and Harrison Salisbury) won several Twin Cities awards for crime reporting and human-interest stories, and for a decade covered a broad sweep of the upper Midwest, from Wisconsin to South Dakota. Given leeway by the Tribune, Magnuson wandered over his territory, reporting spot news and old frontier tales alike from Tuesday to Friday and protecting his favorites on Saturday, when he took over as night city editor...
...TIME, Magnuson soon plunged into the cauldron of the revolutionary '60s and as Education writer (1964-68) turned out our cover stories on the early, boiling days of student radicalism. With the Nation staff ever since, Magnuson wrote most of our Watergate accounts, including 20 cover stories, from March 26,1973 to Nixon's resignation...
...Says Magnuson, now deep into his fourth presidential race: "It's eerie how the faces reappear. I met Fritz Mondale when I was a cub at the Tribune, and he was managing the losing campaign of a guy running for mayor of Minneapolis. Shows you how far a man can go in politics." Shows you how far you can go in journalism...