Laurence I. Barrett

Laurence Irwin Barrett (born September 6, 1935[1]) is an American journalist and author associated with Time, for whom he worked from 1965 until his retirement in 1993.

He married Martha Patterson in 1988, his previous marriage having ended in divorce.

Barrett joined Time in 1965,[3] and, after being a senior editor for six years, returned to reporting in early 1975 as head of its New York office.

[8] 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.