Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long drive to get their man elected President, William Hamilton Jordan, 32, and Joseph Lester Powell Jr., 33, broke most of the rules of politics. Now that Jimmy Carter has reached the White House, the two young men -just call 'em Ham and Jody-are still breaking the rules...
...Bossing. Carter apparently meant what he said about having a strong No. 2 man. He also needs Mondale as a link to the liberals in the Democratic Party who fret about the President's aversion to new spending programs. Mondale, moreover, enjoys the unqualified support of Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top aide, who originally backed him for the vice presidency. "In the past," says Jordan, "a President's staff has been able to boss the Vice President around. No one would dream of doing that with Mondale. I consider him my boss, like I consider Carter...
Those two rakish characters with derbies and cane are not refugees from a ragtime show but Jimmy Carter's good ole boys Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. When Rolling Stone Reporter Joe Klein suggested that Ham and Jody dress up like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for a May 19 article on "The White House Whiz Kids," the pair figured, why not? Photographer Annie Leibovitz picked up some odds and ends from a costume shop and the final ensemble wound up looking more like a cross between Butch Cassidy and The Sting...
Jordan still resists being pegged as Carter's chief of staff, either in name or in fact. Says a Jordan intimate: "Hamilton doesn't like the kind of stuff a chief of staff has to deal with, all those intramural problems and the paper flow." Jordan himself says that he has no desire to get in the way of Carter's contact with Cabinet officers and other staffers. The West Wing troops, he believes, must "function as a staff should -that is, to support Carter and monitor things that are going on in the Federal Government...
...members of the senior staff -spokes in Jimmy's wheel-and have ready access to the President. Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, is probably in touch with Carter more frequently than anyone else, including Jordan. As one colleague describes the emerging West Wing pecking order: "There's Hamilton and Jody, and then there are the others." Powell was one of the eight aides and Cabinet members Carter called in last week to discuss whether he should drop the $50 rebate...