Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keeping Faith, Carter generally resists what must be a great temptation to pander to posterity by touching up his White House record That comes as a pleasant surprise: top presidential side Hamilton Jordan has already released a highly defensive account of the Carter Presidency, and in office, Carter always seemed overly worried about outward appearances, Here, however, he owns up to an unexpected number of miscues...
ROBERT LOWELL by Ian Hamilton Random House; 527pages...
...classroom at Boston University during the '50s (including Sylvia Plath) found him "diffident" and "reserved." His "mild, myopic manner" hardly placed him in the company of the wild men of letters, like his friends Delmore Schwartz and John Berryman. But Lowell, as the English poet-critic Ian Hamilton reveals in this melancholy biography, was the wildest of them...
Carter had used his aide Hamilton Jordan to work with two secret emissaries, Argentine Businessman Hector Villalon and French Lawyer Christian Bourguet, in conducting covert negotiations with Iranian officials for freeing the Americans. The talks had often looked promising, but repeatedly failed when the erratic Khomeini refused to order that control of the hostages be transferred from their militant captors to his government. After the rescue attempt, little progress was made until Algerian diplomats agreed to serve as official intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran. Through this channel, complex legal questions involving the disposition of the frozen Iranian assets were...
Sometimes I was alone in the Oval Office, but most often Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell were with me. Rosalynn stayed whenever she could, repeatedly urging me to get some rest. I spent most of the time at my desk, but when the action was slow, lay down on one of the small couches before the fireplace, often with the telephones on the floor beside me. I was talking to a number of people at different places in the world, and I took meticulous notes so that I would not become confused or forget what they said. I watched...