Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lance ended his first day of testimony last week, Clifford smiled and said, "I think that we started to turn it around today." At the White House, Carter aides were ecstatic. "Superb," said one about Lance's performance. Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan jumbled sports metaphors: "Bert hit a home run. They never even laid a glove on him. It's what we've been waiting for." The man who counted, Jimmy Carter, later watched video tapes of Lance's appearances. Said the President of his friend: "He did well...
...graciously accepted, saying he understood that "emotions were running high" at the White House. Powell reported that he had told Carter that his action had been "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb-and the President did not disagree with my assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...
...weeks ago top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan was asked if he was sure Bert was the model budget man Carter thought him to be. Jordan nearly choked on his bottle of Tab. He looked at the questioner as if his own mother had been insulted. After all, Bert was one of them. They knew him. A special...
...week long, Carter tried to prove that the feeling was mutual. At receptions and state dinners, Scotch and champagne flowed freely, and there were enough petit fours and napoleons to pave the Inter-American Highway. Hamilton Jordan, the Carter troubleshooter charged with getting the treaty through the Senate, testified to the importance of the occasion by showing up in a jacket and tie at a reception following the treaty signing. U.S. Protocol Chief Evan Dobelle, who had to arrange more than a score of identical red-carpet receptions, was described by one sympathetic observer as "busier than a centipede...
...veteran Carter hand: "Midge puts a little fun in his day-and he needs it." Some feel that her joshing comes on a bit too strong. But, notes an associate, "a more serious woman would be too threatening to them." "Them" refers to the Georgia Mafia led by Hamilton Jordan and Powell. Midge insists that they do not close her out of the action: "The only place they don't invite me is to the men's room." She is more a conduit and an expediter than a policymaker, but sometimes she can see direct results; for example...