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It was the low point for a cam-paign that had been in steady de-cline for weeks.
Less than 24 hours earlier, an 11-year-old recording of Donald J.Trump boasting about forcinghimself on women had surfacedand gone viral. Now, on a Satur-day morning in October, his clos-est advisers had assembled in hisTrump Tower apartment to dis-cuss what to do.
The group included a handful ofseasoned politicians and Mr.Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kush-ner, an Orthodox Jew who ordi-narily observes the Sabbathstrictly.
While the others — Gov. Chris
Christie, Rudolph W. Giuliani,Reince Priebus — emphasized thegravity of the situation, urging Mr.Trump to express contrition, Mr.Kushner reminded him of what hehad built. Amid the discussions,the Republican candidate brieflywent down to greet 100 or so sup-porters gathered in front of thebuilding.
“There’s 2,500 people downthere,” Mr. Trump told his advis-ers when he returned.
“Those are the people who aregoing to elect you president,” Mr.Kushner replied, opting not to cor-rect the candidate’s crowd esti-mate. “Don’t worry about the
In-Law With Outsize Power:Kushner Is a Steadying Hand
By JONATHAN MAHLER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Presi-dent-elect Donald J. Trump onSaturday moved to mend fenceswith political rivals after a divisivecampaign, meeting with MittRomney, who had scathingly criti-cized him during the race as “aphony” and “a fraud,” to discussnaming him as secretary of state.
The outreach signaled a changein tone one day after Mr. Trumpmoved to elevate hard-liners topivotal national security posi-tions. It was not clear whether Mr.Trump had offered the State De-partment post to Mr. Romney, orwhether Mr. Romney, who hasbroken sharply with him on Rus-sia, free trade and other issues,would accept if he did.
But some strategists arguedthat merely by reaching out to Mr.Romney, Mr. Trump was demon-strating an openness to new peo-ple and ideas, even from the un-likeliest of sources. It may alsohave been intended to inject thesort of unpredictability and spec-tacle into the transition processthat the president-elect thriveson.
During a weekend of transitiontalks at Trump National Golf Clubhere in Bedminster, Mr. Trumpwas scheduled to hold a series ofdiscussions with what his aidesdescribed as a diverse array of po-tential advisers. The conversa-tions were aimed at showing thatthe president-elect was willing tolook beyond his loyal inner circleto fill his administration.
Among the others who sat downwith Mr. Trump were Michelle A.Rhee, a Democrat who served asthe chancellor of public schools inthe District of Columbia from 2007to 2010; Robert L. Woodson, an Af-rican-American conservative whoworks on community-based anti-poverty programs; James N. Mat-tis, a retired Marine Corps generalwho headed the United StatesCentral Command and is beingconsidered for the post of defensesecretary; and Todd Ricketts, anowner of the Chicago Cubs.
Mr. Trump met with Mr. Rom-
TRUMP IS MEETINGWITH WIDE ARRAYOF POSSIBLE PICKS
A SITDOWN WITH ROMNEY
Once a Scathing Critic,Now a Contender for
Secretary of State
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The New Boss?He’s a Lot LikeThe Old Trump
Donald J. Trump sits high inTrump Tower in New York, spend-ing hours on the phone withfriends, television personalitiesand donors to ask if they knowpeople to recommend for his cab-inet.
He joins a daily morning transi-tion meeting with his family andstaff, but still maintains the rou-tine that sustained him during thecampaign: starting his day at 5a.m. reading The New York Postand The New York Times, thenswitching on MSNBC’s “MorningJoe,” whose co-host Joe Scarbor-ough he once publicly savaged butnow often seeks out for advice.
He gets angry when membersof his inner circle get too much ofthe spotlight, as Rudolph W. Giuli-ani did when headlines about hismillions of dollars in speaking feesappeared as the former New Yorkmayor was publicly promotinghimself to be Mr. Trump’s secre-tary of state.
And Mr. Trump has happily re-sumed control of his Twitter feed,using it to bash targets in the newsmedia and criticize the cast of theBroadway musical “Hamilton” forimploring Vice President-electMike Pence, who was in the audi-ence Friday night, to govern onbehalf of all Americans.
“The cast of Hamilton was veryrude last night to a very good man,Mike Pence,” Mr. Trump wrote onSaturday morning. “Apologize!”
As a parade of job seekers, TVtalking heads and statesmen likeHenry Kissinger paraded throughthe lobby of Trump Tower this
By ASHLEY PARKERand MAGGIE HABERMAN
Fomenting Infighting,Rewarding Loyalty
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A surprising confrontationerupted on Saturday betweenPresident-elect Donald J. Trumpand the cast and creators of theBroadway hit “Hamilton,” settingoff furious debate over Americanprinciples like free speech, re-spect and the ability to challengeauthority in the Trump era.
President-elect Trump de-manded an apology from the castfor making a rare, politicallycharged appeal from the stage onFriday night to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was in theaudience, urging him and Mr.Trump to “uphold our Americanvalues” and “work on behalf of allof us.” Mr. Trump’s response sig-nificantly escalated an unusualprotest inside a theater into a fu-ror on social media and cable
news.Mr. Trump, who has stirred bi-
partisan concern over his habit ofattacking those who challengehim, said on Twitter that the ac-tors had “harassed” Mr. Pence,and he issued a battle cry to hissupporters by saying that the mu-sical’s cast had criticized “ourwonderful future VP Mike Pence.”He continued to assail the show onTwitter on Saturday night, writingthat the actors had been “veryrude and insulting” to Mr. Penceand claiming that they “couldn’t
even memorize lines” — thoughhe offered no evidence and thendeleted the message.
The clash between the “Hamil-ton” actors and Mr. Trump cap-tured the sharply divergent feel-ings of many Americans 11 days af-ter the election: a showdown be-tween the values ofmulticulturalism on the left, in-cluding the racially diverse “Ham-ilton” cast and the world of enter-tainment, and the conservativeprinciples of the incoming Repub-lican administration, which wasbacked strongly by working-classwhite voters and traditional Re-publicans.
Mr. Trump framed the cast’s ap-peal as a violation of “a safe andspecial place” — borrowing a fa-vored phrase of the left and ofcampus protesters; it was not
‘Hamilton’ Plea Sets Stage for a Trump ClashBy PATRICK HEALY Cast’s Appeal to Pence
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Vice President-elect Mike Pence, center at left, attended a Friday showing of “Hamilton.” Afterward, a lead actor read a statement.ANDRES KUDACKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS, LEFT; HAMILTON LLC, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS, ABOVE
Donald J. Trump and Mitt Romney parted after their meeting at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Saturday.HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. —Crosby J. Gardner has never had agirlfriend. Now 20 and living forthe first time in a dorm here atWestern Kentucky University, hehas designed a fast-track experi-ment to find her.
He ticks off the math. Twomeals a day at the student dininghall, three courses per meal. Girlsmake up 57 percent of the 20,068students. And so, he sums up,gray-blue eyes triumphant, if hesits at a table with at least fournew girls for every course, heshould be able to meet all 11,439 bygraduation.
“I’m Crosby Gardner!” he an-
nounces each time he descendsupon a fresh group, trying out thesocial-skills script he had prac-ticed in the university’s autismsupport program. “What is yourname and what is your major?”
The first generation of collegestudents with an autism diagnosisis fanning out to campuses acrossthe country. These growing num-bers reflect the sharp rise in diag-nosis rates since the 1990s, as wellas the success of early-learninginterventions and efforts to in-clude these students in main-stream activities.
But while these young adultshave opportunities that could not
have been imagined had theybeen born even a decade earlier,their success in college is still along shot. Increasingly, schoolsare realizing that most of thesestudents will not graduate withoutcomprehensive support like the
Kelly Autism Program at WesternKentucky. Similar programs havebeen taking root at nearly 40 col-leges around the country, includ-ing large public institutions likeEastern Michigan University;
Helping Autistic StudentsNavigate Life on Campus
A Web of Academic and Social Support
Crosby J. Gardner, a participant in the Kelly Autism Program,trying his hand at self-checkout on a trip to Walmart.
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By JAN HOFFMAN
IOWA CITY — The air felt lead-en in the hallways at West HighSchool on the morning after Elec-tion Day. The usual clatter fromthe building’s 2,000 students wasmuffled. At lunchtime, Lujayn Ha-mad was in the cafeteria when shesaid a boy she barely knewroughly bumped into her andswore at her.
“Go back home,” he told Ms. Ha-mad, who is 15, and an Americancitizen, and wears a hijab.
The comment, overheard by afriend at Ms. Hamad’s side —though denied by the male stu-dent — set off a turbulent week oftears, fury and demonstrations atWest High, a large public school inthis university town, which pridesitself on its openness and progres-
sivism. Minorities make up nearly40 percent of the student body atWest High, a far more diverse mixthan the typical Iowa school.
In the hours and days after Ms.Hamad’s encounter in the cafete-ria, similar incidents followed,students said. One girl said shewas surrounded by heckling stu-dents and called a terrorist. An-other said she saw people chant-ing “Trump” in the hallways whenthey passed black students. In oneclassroom, a student noted the ab-sence of a Latino classmate andannounced to the others, “I won-der if she got deported.”
Like many other schoolsaround the country since the elec-
Taunts and Protests at a SchoolIn Iowa Reflect a Nation’s Divide
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SENSE OF VALIDATION Whitenationalists gathered to celebrate“an awakening.” PAGE 26
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