Word: hamilton
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Presidential Assistants Hamilton Jordan and Frank Moore (who is in charge Of congressional relations) enter the President's office at 9:45. They discuss the Administration's foreign aid request. "We're going to lose Africa," Carter says to Moore, "if we don't do something to help those poorer countries." Moore is instructed to tell Congress that "we've got to have some way to meet the challenge." On the subject of congressional recalcitrance over the $50 tax rebate, Moore tells the President: "[Senate Majority Leader Robert] Byrd called in four people yesterday...
...Hamilton Jordan is a pizza proponent. He shuns the Sans Souci, a favorite Washington restaurant, thereby reaping contempt from a small but spirited group who consider the crabe en chemise (washed with a Sancerre '72) to be one of civilization's finer creations. Rosalynn Carter has taken the French off White House menus. She has a similar attitude toward fashion, refusing to consider it a high art form...
...about 7.30 a.m., Hamilton Jordan arrives at the White House by bus, or is driven from his Capitol Hill home by his wife Nancy-causing him daily to rue Jimmy Carter's decision to strip his assistants of limousine service. But one plus about his job as the key senior adviser to the President is the fact that he does not have to cope with rush-hour traffic. He comes to work too early and leaves too late...
...Washington's too. An incident one evening revealed what Washington senses: that Hamilton Jordan has found his place. He was sitting in his office, as usual sans tie, his feet on a table. The phone rang. It was the President asking about someone he was considering for an ambassadorship. "He's a good man," said Jordan. "But his wife has a serious problem. I may be wrong. I'll check it. Yes, sir." He hung up. He had coolly warned the President of a difficulty. The tone of his voice had never changed. His feet were still...
Carter seems to think that a SALT agreement will not be accepted by the U.S. public unless he takes a strong, principled stand on human rights. The President feels so strongly about this, says Aide Hamilton Jordan, that he would press Moscow on the issue even if "there was a risk that the action jeopardized our relationships with the Soviet Union on other matters like nuclear proliferation and the reduction of arms...