Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the meeting was rescheduled for Jan. 12, the committee prepared a press release in advance, outlining its criticisms of social-spending cuts in Carter's new budget. The release, which included such undiplomatic words as "challenged" and "unacceptable," reached White House Aides Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell as they were celebrating Jerry Rafshoon's 45th birthday. Outraged, the White House staffers decided Bella...
Directed by Guy Hamilton Screenplay by Robin Chapman and George MacDonald Eraser
...played pretty well up until now. Then Brother Billy thought he would enlarge the script. First came an interview in Penthouse magazine in which the barefooted Billy called Charles Kirbo, the President's adviser, "about the dumbest bastard I ever met in my life" and labeled Hamilton Jordan, the top White House staff member, an "asshole." Some thought that Billy, who now makes about $300,000 a year by performing in public as the President's brother, crossed the line from being a plain, greedy slob into being an embarrassment to the presidency. Then last week came...
While the Constitution was going through the ratification process in 1788, Alexander Hamilton confidently predicted that the judiciary would be "the least dangerous" branch of the new Government, since judges would not have the power of the purse or of the sword. Indeed, the first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay, who resigned to be Governor of New York, refused President John Adams' invitation to return, saying that the court lacked "weight and dignity." It was the fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall, who gave the federal bench real clout. Marshall, who believed that a judge should...
...judges are bound to uphold the Constitution. But that is not an immutable piece of parchment that judges can apply to laws like litmus paper. It is rather a set of principles that have proved enduring partly because they are flexible. When the original Constitution was written in Hamilton's day, the U.S. was mostly a nation of small farmers who would have fallen on their pitchforks at the thought of today's complicated modern society, or of the broad role that Government plays in running it. By giving the Constitution new meaning, the judiciary has allowed...