Word: hamilton
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...written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships, and his difficulties with American Jews over his Middle East policies--Hamilton Jordan flew to Los Angeles to help push tickets for a $1000-a-plate dinner headed by Lew Wasserman of MCA two weeks ago, and it's seen as a big test of his approval...
...leading Senators are still miffed that no one in the White House bothered to show them the treaties before the signing ceremony last month. A widely quoted wisecrack by Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan last week scarcely improved those bruised White House-Hill relations. Referring to the cascade of anti-treaty letters that Senators have been receiving, Jordan snickered that "some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Said New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, a supporter of the pacts: "That was not helpful...
...more spirited questions around Washington now is whether Jimmy Carter has ever had a three-martini lunch. Hamilton Jordan, his top aide, has never seen Carter drink even one martini. But Jordan says rather wickedly that he does not know what goes on over in the private part of the mansion after work...
...edition of The Social List of Washington, D.C.-dubbed the Green Book-sells for $30 and offers about 600 new names worthy of invitations to In cocktail and dinner parties around town. Up there with the bluebloods, the powerbrokers and the smart setters are Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell and all the other country types. Off the list are Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller, who have left town entirely; but Henry and Nancy Kissinger are still based in Washington-and are still in the book...
Humes says he deliberately committed the traffic violation that resurrected the New Jersey charges in Hamilton last March hoping to bring attention to the massive quantities of information collected by the National Computer Information Center on private citizens. The transcript of the March 28 trial of Humes on the traffic violation charge shows that the arresting officer said Humes told the officer he was "trying to get arrested." The Salem court where the trial was held found Humes guilty of driving a vehicle without proper registration and without a driver's license...