Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Retzer took the analogy a step further, asking, "If the President can't control Billy, how can he control Brezhnev?" In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Bob Hughes called the Billy episode "Watergate revisited," adding: "The idea of America's foremost beer drinker negotiating with Gaddafi or Hamilton Jordan negotiating with Panama over the Shah makes you wonder what the hell was the State Department doing...
...quizzed by Justice Department lawyers without the help of his own counsel, and, getting the White House even further involved in the case, referred him to a number of Washington-based lawyers. Cutler recommended, among others, Henry Ruth, the former Watergate prosecutor, and Stephen Pollack, who had successfully defended Hamilton Jordan, the White House chief of staff, against charges of using cocaine...
Carter has recast his Administration in significant respects. The White House staff is broader-gauged, and at last Carter's confidant and principal aide, Hamilton Jordan, is out of policy and into politics, where he should have been from the beginning. Carter's new Secretary of State, Ed Muskie, is streetwise and strong, reinforcing the President wherever necessary...
...spent almost half my life working for Jimmy Carter, "says Hamilton Jordan, 35, the President's idea man and Chief of Staff. His off-hours behavior drew such heavy criticism that Jordan decided a year ago to drop out of public view. Now he will re-emerge from the White House to work on Carter's reelection. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian talked to Jordan and wrote this report...
...happens often to a good idea man: the boss becomes attached to him, and so dependent that he installs him in the wrong job. So it was with Jimmy Carter and Hamilton Jordan. Jordan is an extraordinary thinker, a man who drags concepts out of thin air, but is a terrible administrator. He has the toughness to handle the most difficult assignments, but he hates details. He has been a poor White House Chief of Staff. Now the boss, convinced that his campaign badly lacked any positive theme or concept, has turned once again to his favorite thinker...