Word: hamilton
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...which policy is decided. He does not hesitate to press his views on Carter in their daily telephone calls and frequent meetings when both are in Washington. He is especially vocal at the weekly Friday-morning foreign policy breakfasts attended by the President, Mondale, Brzezinski and Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan. It may be that Vance, who is renowned in Government for "leaving no footprints," relishes the fact that no one takes notes at the breakfasts. "It's the only federal forum I've known to be leakless," reports Mondale wryly...
...hero. He has given veteran State Department officials a revitalized feeling of usefulness, and they like his systematic, orderly approach to decisions. Says Matthew Nimetz, the Department counselor and a former law partner of Vance's: "He is the most efficient user of time I've ever known." Observes Hamilton Jordan: "He runs the State Department as well...
...Queen. How much of the increase was Margaret's only the Prime Minister and the Royal Exchequer knew, but her raise was estimated at about $10,000, which would bring her annual salary to around $110,000. Parliamentary anti-royalists were unhappy about that. Said Laborite M.P. Willie Hamilton, Commons' most vigorous monarchy baiter: "If any of the increase goes to Margaret, there will be nationwide outrage." Hamilton demanded that each of the royals on the civil list be haled before a parliamentary select committee to justify the stipends...
...returning to Atlanta, Lance was depressed and bitter. His best friends were deserting him, he complained to one intimate: "Can you imagine standing in Hamilton Jordan's office and being told I'm embarrassing the President-after what's happened to him?" Lance's biting allusion referred to the recent episodes in which gossip reporters have portrayed Jordan as publicly insulting women...
...Willie Hamilton, British Labor Party M.P., on Princess Margaret and her involvement with Pop Singer Roddy Llewellyn: "It has turned her into a punk royal...