Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their files." Although there were the usual legions of security personnel and communications experts to keep the leaders linked to their capitals, the official entourages were pretty trim compared with those of previous summits. Carter, for example, brought along only National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell and a few other Administration staffers...
...dumbest bastard I ever met in my life," while Press Secretary Jody Powell "would be better off running a farm in Vienna, Ga." To which Powell replied: "It would certainly put me in touch with a better class of people." In Billy's opinion, Chief White House Aide Hamilton Jordan is "a kid. I don't know what the hell Hamilton does." Holds his temper, for one thing. His rejoinder: "Good ole Billy...
...that session Carter gave Chief Aide Hamilton Jordan authority to coordinate policies and pull policymakers into line. The President began concentrating on only the most important issues, dropping the original every-thing-at-once strategy that had spread him far too thin and exasperated Congress. As U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young put it, "In the early days Carter felt that he could force Congress and history and everything else to work according to his flow chart. He has learned that it doesn't happen that...
Buried Child. Sam Shepard's saga of primal fears and lusts is shot through with sunbursts of surreal humor. As the dying patriarch, Richard Hamilton casts the blistered shadow of Lear on a blasted prairie heath...
...President took the idea with him to the London economic summit meeting and halfway round the world to India. Members of Congress began to notice that they could call up Carter more easily and quickly than Hamilton Jordan, his chief aide. They did. Reporters wanted firsthand conversations with him. Special interests, like the blacks, no longer found satisfaction in complaining to Cabinet officers. They sought the President and they found...