Word: hamilton
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Unlike such White House Chiefs of Staff as Richard Nixon's H.R. Haldeman and Jimmy Carter's Hamilton Jordan, Baker will have scant contact with members of the Cabinet or other major Government agencies. That is what Meese will be doing, in addition to helping set overall policy. Baker's job will be restricted to directing the work of the assistants and aides to the President who actually work in the White House or in the neighboring Executive Office Building. Among Baker's duties will be supervising White House press and congressional relations. Like Meese...
After appearing very briefly at an Italian-American dinner, the President went swiftly to his suite to huddle with aides who had been traveling with him, and also with is chief political adviser, Hamilton Jordan, just arrived from Washingon. Jordan had flown in especially to help Carter prepare for an event expected to take place within hours in Tehran. The Majlis, or Iranian parliament, was about to vote on the fate of the American hostages, who have been in captivity for a full year...
...Government lawyers, he offered four Georgians $10 million in late 1976 if they could persuade the incoming Carter Administration to fix his legal problems. The group in turn paid W. Spencer Lee IV, a lawyer from Albany, Ga., $10,000 to talk with his longtime friend and Carter confidant Hamilton Jordan about Vesco's plight. Lee met first with Carter Aide Richard M. Harden, who, claims Lee, persuaded him not to see Jordan. Lee says he then dropped the scheme entirely. After investigating Vesco I for 18 months, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., disbanded without returning...
...Hamilton Jordan, the President's closest aide, believes the inability to project a vision of where he wants to lead the country and to explain clearly what he has accomplished has plagued the Administration most. "Our greatest single failure is that we have not communicated effectively a description of the country's problems or a pertinent solution to those problems," he says. It is more than that. At times Carter's touch has been so uncertain that he has caused many Americans to lose confidence in him, to wonder if he really had a vision...
...General Benjamin Civiletti survive having dissembled in the Billy Carter affair? Politicizing the Pentagon has diminished the standing of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. In the State Department Edmund Muskie seems worn out after only a few months on the job. Carter's White House crew, led by Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, who did so much to disparage his own Cabinet officers, seems to be ineffective in everything but politics. If Carter were to win and not rebuild his machinery to inject new spirit into his Administration, his second term could fail before it even started...