A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 7, 1977

There is no yeastier time in Washington than the start of a new Administration. Everything is suddenly different—faces, names, programs, style. So the members of our bureau found it last week as they reported for this week's cover story. The Ford White House had been relatively open (certainly compared with the fortress-like conditions of the Nixon era), but so far at least the Carter Administration is even more accessible.

Bruce Nelan, who last served in Washington in the late '60s and is now back covering the Pentagon, found that "officials' doors are literally...

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