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...morning after John McCain's victory in New Hampshire, TIME'S Ana Marie Cox interviewed him on his plane as he and his staff flew to Michigan to prepare for the G.O.P. primary scheduled there for Jan. 15. Excerpts from the interview...
High over Baghdad the plane readies for a tactical, corkscrew landing and I can see the glowing grids of the U.S. detention center on the far side of the airport below. From around 5,000 feet in the air, just past dusk, it is one of the brightest structures anywhere in sight. We land, taxi, deplane and spill out into the darkness. The highway at night is empty, wide and pitch-black. After nearly five years it is still unsecured, still dubbed the "highway of death." In some cases checkpoints are every couple of hundred yards. Wide boulevards where children...
...Within hours Huckabee would be on a plane, shared with his traveling press corps, for the next hurdle in his long-shot bid for the White House. He knows as well as anyone that the evangelicals who lifted him to victory in Iowa will not follow him to New Hampshire, where he still polls in single digits - fourth place. Once again, he will face candidates who are far better funded and organized. His New Hampshire staff - currently just six full-time people - is less than half of what he had in Iowa...
...both foreign and domestic, have not yet been fleshed out. His research department is thinly staffed, and his press shop is constantly overwhelmed. His fundraising operation remains a bit of an unproven mystery. Chip Saltsman, the campaign manager, said the conversation about new hires would begin on the overnight plane ride. "This is a campaign that has been taking fire nationally for a while now," he said. "We knew we were going to have to get bigger...
...Japan or South Korea. I turned in my application in September, and two months later I was in Beijing, where I plunked down $4,000 in cash for the 10-day trip. The next day my fellow travelers and I received our visas and boarded a Soviet-era Tupolev plane belonging to Air Koryo, the national North Korean airline, for the two-hour flight to Pyongyang. We had no itinerary because our trip was considered "secret" information at that point. After landing, we were asked to hand over any cell phone, computer with GPS, radio and video camera?all forbidden...