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Included in this week's cover story is an exclusive interview with Carter conducted in Plains, Ga., by Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, who supervised the excerpting of the Carter book, and Chicago Bureau Chief Chris Ogden. TIME'S White House and State Department correspondent during the Carter Administration, Ogden prepped for the interview by renewing old contacts with former Carter aides and reviewing stories and his own yellowing notes. Recalls Ogden: "Carter is not a politician in the traditional sense who feels compelled to put up a false friendly front. While gracious, he was, as usual...
With his book ready for publication, Jimmy Carter reviewed his presidency and its aftermath with TIME Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss and Midwest Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden, who covered the Carter Administration as White House and State Department correspondent. The four-hour interview began in his wood-paneled home-town office just off the main street of Plains, Ga., and concluded on the sunny back patio of his modest brick ranch house a few blocks away. Afterward, Carter went right to work polishing up the inaugural lecture he was to present the next day as a professor at Emory University...
...daunting task of editing Kissinger's insightful and often elegant prose went to Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss. "For every Kissinger word we used, we had to discard 19," laments Kriss. "Kissinger's themes are so tightly interwoven that separating material by subject, as we chose to do, is particularly difficult." Completed excerpts were sent by courier to Kissinger, who would then telephone Kriss with comments and clarifications. "He is an excellent text editor," says Kriss. "He is also an absolute workhorse. With help from TIME'S switchboard, he was able to find me just about anywhere...
...least for a while, Kriss had more hospitable surroundings for his work: the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where he spent ten days working on the Kissinger manuscript...
...They say military spending produces jobs, but couldn't there be jobs if they used Draper for other things," Kriss D. Worthington, a third-year graduate student and a member of Ailanthus said last week...