By Jeffery Whitfield
She works under tremendous pressure for long hours and often hears of readers who complain that the newspaper she writes for dramatically leans in liberal or conservative directions. But that's all part of the job for Elisabeth Bumiller, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
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