Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have flowed between the Iranian and U.S. governments. Most often the messengers have been Swiss diplomats. But last week a flood of light on the back channels disclosed the activities of a collection of surprising messengers: an Argentine fixer, a leftist French lawyer, and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Disguised as a middle-aged man, with a gray wig, mustache and tinted glasses, the 35-year-old Jordan has traveled several times to Europe for clandestine meetings with go-betweens...
...Panama in its effort to capture the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, an effort that prompted the ailing Shah to flee to Egypt three weeks ago. In the course of his work for Tehran, Bourguet met in Paris on at least one occasion with Carter's closest aide, Hamilton Jordan...
...Shah left Panama only two days after the arrival of White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler. Ostensibly, they had flown to Panama City to arbitrate a dispute between Panamanian and American surgeons over who should remove the Shah's spleen. Two weeks ago, his international team of physicians had decided that surgery was essential. Flown to Panama City from his home in exile on nearby Contadora Island, the Shah checked into the Paitilla Medical Center, a modern private hospital. At the same time, the Shah's aides summoned Heart Surgeon Michael...
Unlike many play wrights, Hamilton was both willing and able to make changes in his script. But his innocence showed up in other ways, and he was sometimes shocked at both the egos and the greed of many people in the business. "If you go in thinking everyone is trying to help you, you wind up bitter," he observed at the time. "Everyone is just in it for himself." Talking about one of his colleagues who he thought took advantage of him, he said: "It was like that scene at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The hero...
...patient and give the actors your sympathy. They're out here with no net." No one fell, but at the end of the first act, Cattaneo judged that things were rocky. "The actors are tentative," she said, "because they don't know when the laughs are coming." Hamilton added glumly: "I'd say it needs a lot of work." When it ended, he went home and got drunk...