Word: hamilton
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...delay his personal decision on the treaty until after Senate hearings. While having lunch with Carter at the White House, Byrd told the President that he had "an uphill road to travel for ratification." A foretaste of how emotional the debate may be was provided by retired Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., 88, who charged that supporters of the new treaty want to "impeach the great Theodore Roosevelt in the grave by sticking a dagger in his back...
Despite the ordeal still ahead of him, it seems probable that Lance can now ride out the storm. Predicted Presidential Aide Hamilton Jordan: "This thing is not going to end tomorrow or next week, but it won't go on much longer." At his press conference, Lance made it clear that, Carter willing, he intended to stay hi office. Said he: "My ability to carry out my job has not been damaged...
Nobody could be sure just how the votes would fall in the Senate. "Anybody who says he has an accurate head count now is crazy," said Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan, who is coordinating White House ratification efforts. "There are guys on record as being against the treaty who I think will eventually support it." As for Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd's suggestion that the vote be delayed until next year, Jordan said simply: "We certainly don't want an early vote if we're going to lose...
Carter wasted no time coming to the support of the agreement. He got on the phone from Plains to more than a dozen congressional leaders to ask for help in winning approval of the pact. He put his top troubleshooter, Hamilton Jordan, in charge of steering the treaty through Congress?the toughest assignment Jordan has been given since getting Carter elected. A White House task force under Jordan fired off wires to all 534 members of Congress, urging them to approach the treaty with open minds. White House emissaries were planning to ask for help from Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller...
...year-old school's charter. Bennett, which filed bankruptcy proceedings last spring, will almost surely close down this week too. Meanwhile, a standing deficit has forced a third private women's college in New York State, twelve-year-old Kirkland, to merge next year with coordinate Hamilton College, a 165-year-old, previously all-male college in Clinton...