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'''Peter Wallsten''' is an American journalist and author who is currently a senior politics editor at ''[[The Washington Post]]''. He was previously a White House correspondent.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/peter-wallsten/|title=Peter Wallsten - The Washington Post|last=|first=|date=|newspaper=Washington Post|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
Los Angeles Times, and is the author, with Tom Hamburger, of ''[[One Party Country]]: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century''.▼
== Early life and education ==
Wallsten was brought up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and graduated from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]] in 1994.
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Wallsten started his career writing for the ''[[Miami Herald]]'', ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'', ''[[Charlotte Observer]]'' and the ''[[Congressional Quarterly]]''.
▲He became a White House correspondent for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in 2004, and
Wallsten joined ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' in 2009 as a national political reporter before moving to the ''Post'' to become a White House correspondent in 2010. He was appointed a senior politics editor in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://washpostpr.tumblr.com/post/70902018796/peter-wallsten-named-deputy-national-politics|title=Peter Wallsten named Deputy National Politics Editor|website=WashPost PR|language=en|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Wallsten is partially blind as a result of [[Stargardt disease]], which is a genetically inherited form of macular degeneration. In June 2006, this caused an exchange of words with President [[George W. Bush]] at a White House press conference. Unaware of the journalist's medical condition, the president questioned Wallsten's need to wear sunglasses when the sun wasn't visible. Bush later apologized for the incident.<ref name=Cornwell2006>{{cite news|accessdate=2010-09-19
|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-shows-his-sensitive-side-telling-blind-journalist-im-interested-in-the-shade-look-404227.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-shows-his-sensitive-side-telling-blind-journalist-im-interested-in-the-shade-look-404227.html |archive-date=2022-05-26 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live
|title=Bush shows his sensitive side, telling blind journalist: 'I'm interested in the shade look'
|author=Cornwell, Rupert
|work=The Independent Online
|date=June 16, 2006
}}</ref>
==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.pelicanfile.com/reporter.cfm?ReporterID=141 Some of Peter Wallsten's reporting]
*{{C-SPAN|1019224}}
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