Word: hamilton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...garb, and even television cameras and reporters were banished from the immediate scene. For a few hours at a time then, the President heard only the rush of clear water, the muffled voices of family and friends, and the quiet language of trees and animals in a wilderness. Said Hamilton Jordan: "A man like President Carter, who has grown up close to the soil, gets a special peace of mind from being out of doors...
...group. Among them: Chip Carter and House Majority Whip John Brademas, along with a sprinkling of Senators (Alan Cranston and Dick Clark) and political hopefuls (Bill Bradley and Yvonne Burke). Also there, natty in a navy blue suit, white shirt and tie, was the customarily casual White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Said he: "Some of my critics in the city have told me that I would do better if I got out and socialized with members of Congress...
This is not the half-century-old dramatization by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, in which Bram Stoker's 1897 epistolary novel was moved up to the 1920s--the version that brought fame to Bela Lugosi (whom I saw play it here in Boston near the end of his life) and is now doing the same on Broadway for Frank Langella. Nor is it the later adaptation by Crane Johnson, which I have never seen...
...came Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell and Jerry Rafshoon, their arms linked like those of chorus girls. They chanted their urgent message: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling...
...White House staff reflects Carter's lack of success as a Government manager. Hamilton Jordan is the President's senior adviser and is sometimes regarded as chief of staff. In fact, however, no one has that title and function, or even a standing mandate to keep things moving by cracking the whip over his colleagues. Major assignments rotate from office to office, and much is handled on an ad hoc basis. Explains a high Administration official: "The problem is not the decisions we make, but how we make them and how they are made public. Jimmy Carter consults...