page_title: Laurence I. Barrett
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Laurence I. Barrett / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Laurence I. Barrett interviewing Ronald Reagan
context_page_description: Laurence Irwin Barrett is an American journalist and author associated with Time, for whom he worked from 1965 until his retirement in 1993.
context_section_description: Barrett joined the New York Herald-Tribune in  1957 and covered New York City Hall issues for the paper from 1959 to 1962 before becoming its Washington correspondent. He published The Mayor of New York, a novel, in 1965.
  Barrett joined Time in 1965, and after being a senior editor for six years returned to reporting in early 1975 as head of its New York office. He was Time's White House correspondent from 1981 to 1985, and then its national political correspondent, before becoming deputy Washington bureau chief. He returned to the position of national political correspondent in mid-1991. Barrett retired from Time in 1993.
  In 1983 Barrett published Gambling With History: Reagan in the White House, based on "unusual access to internal deliberations" for a period of two years. Revelations included Richard Darman's successful attempt to stall the invocation of Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when President Reagan was receiving treatment following the 1981 assassination attempt on him. The book also revealed what became known as "Debategate" - the theft of papers by the Reagan campaign from the Carter campaign during the 1980 presidential election.
caption: Interviewing Ronald Reagan in 1981
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