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...Lance ended his first day of testimony last week, Clifford smiled and said, "I think that we started to turn it around today." At the White House, Carter aides were ecstatic. "Superb," said one about Lance's performance. Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan jumbled sports metaphors: "Bert hit a home run. They never even laid a glove on him. It's what we've been waiting for." The man who counted, Jimmy Carter, later watched video tapes of Lance's appearances. Said the President of his friend: "He did well...
...assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...
...courtly Missourian has been helping Democrats out of jams for three decades. Last week elegant, silver-haired Clark Clifford, sometimes peering through a pince-nez, was at the side of pudgy, rumpled Bert Lance, carefully guiding him through the thicket of charges and questions. As Lance read his occasionally theatrical opening statement, Co-Author Clifford silently mouthed the words along with him. At one point the Senators paused in their rambling cross-examination to ask Clifford's expert help in interpreting a loan agreement that had been signed by his client. Clifford was the coolest and best-prepared person...
They cannot see Bert Lance as having violated their code, if not the law. They cannot perceive that their insistence erodes trust, hurting the presidency and thus the nation. They have drawn the wagons in a circle and have so far placed Carter's pride and the feelings of their old friend Bert before the good of the country. It is selfishness and arrogance of a sort. In a sound presidency, there is only one final measure of action: Is it in the national interest? Bert Lance no longer is because he played too loose with money...
...weeks ago top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan was asked if he was sure Bert was the model budget man Carter thought him to be. Jordan nearly choked on his bottle of Tab. He looked at the questioner as if his own mother had been insulted. After all, Bert was one of them. They knew him. A special...