Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech he prepared for that Tuesday-night debate, Kennedy had included a paragraph of praise for Carter. But then he picked up a newspaper and read a comment by Hamilton Jordan, the President's deputy campaign chairman. "We could do it without him," Jordan had said of the campaign, "but it will be easier with him. He doesn't matter so much himself, but his people do." With that, Kennedy toned down his speech to only one mention of Carter, and the result was hardly an endorsement...
Inside the tiny, cramped trailer, the two managers of Jimmy Carter's campaign sat huddled together, tense but confident that they had control over the nearby convention floor. This was Monday evening and the fight over delegate rules would settle things once and for all. Robert Strauss and Hamilton Jordan sat on the brown vinyl couches, half a dozen phones on the table in front of them, sending floor whips and Cabinet officers into the hall to brace wavering delegates...
...states like California and Illinois held strongly for Carter, and when Pennsylvania put Carter over the top, Strauss was on his feet. "Let's go, Hamilton, start calling those names!" he said in a shout. Jordan answered that he was going to go congratulate the Carter workers. "Not them, goddam it!" Strauss barked at him. "I mean the guys we just beat. We own the others...
...loud-Kennedy would abandon the agreed-upon roll call votes if Carter would concede three economic planks calling for wage and price controls, a jobs program and giving priority to fighting unemployment-Strauss got to his feet and let loose. "The hell with that," he said. "No deal. Get Hamilton in here." A few minutes later, Jordan bounded into the trailer. He had just talked to Wagner himself. "You hear that goddam offer," Jordan said angrily. "I told him to go to hell." Then he stopped and said, "I probably shouldn't have said it." Strauss assured...
...tries to come from behind, Carter will face real problems across the country, even in the South, where he got 40% of his electoral votes in 1976. While strategists like Hamilton Jordan profess confidence about holding the South, they concede that more time and money will have to be spent this year than in 1976 to protect this base. As the President's analysts now see it, Carter only narrowly leads in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Reagan is ahead in Texas and Florida...