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White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett, attending his fifth summit, and Barrett Seaman, whose experience goes back to the 1978 meeting in Bonn, had to contend with what Seaman calls "the bane of all reporters covering presidential trips": pools, the often tedious arrangements in which publications rotate coverage where access is limited. "They are necessary, but they add enormously to already grueling schedules," Seaman says. "Oppressive security arrangements in Bonn also made coverage of the ceremonies quite difficult...
...term, our Washington bureau was completing changes in its Reagan-watching team. Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey (who last week conducted his 16th interview with the President) and Senior White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett have been joined by two fresh correspondents on the East and West Wing beats: Barrett Seaman, who has reported from the State Department for the past year, and Alessandra Stanley, most recently a Nation section writer...
...Seaman's assignment for this week's cover stories was to put together a picture of what the Reagan second term will look like. He found the task refreshing, even fun. "At the State Department," he says, "one gets carefully crafted exchanges with sources who are focused on substance and reluctant to talk personalities. At the White House, sources are quite prepared to engage in discussions about the people around them. After all, they are politicians...
...Regan was in good humor last Friday morning when he discussed his new job with TIME White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett and Barrett Seaman. With a big grin, he displayed a baseball bat aides had given him as a weapon in his new post. But he was also serious in describing his fighting trim. "At age 25," he said of his World War II service in the Marines, "I had 900 men under me in battle. If you don't think that seasons you for combat in Washington later in your life, you're crazy." Other highlights...
Reported by Barrett Seaman and Bruce van Voorst/Washington