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...short-order cook. You want some French fries, I'll give you some French fries. I'm not sitting here making great decisions." That is pure Jordan, or "Jerden," as the name is pronounced down home. To all appearances, he is the good ole boy come to Washington: joshing, tieless, rumpled, feet on desk, a thick scallop of hair falling across an unlined, apple-cheeked face that is as unrevealing of emotion as a painted Easter egg. Operating only 50 steps from the Oval Office, Jordan, 32, still looks as if he would be more at home with...
...Washington, which can detect power budding in the dark, has now had eight weeks to lock its sensors on Jordan and decide this is no good ole short-order cook. It has found he is enough at ease with power not to have to show it. His informality lulls people into relaxing their guard, encourages them to underrate him. Those who have crossed him learn all too late that he is an infighter who can hold his own in any political company and a far more complex personality than appearances suggest. House Speaker Tip O'Neill has dubbed...
White House watchers also think they can glimpse a tad of arrogance showing through the good ole boy pose. Jordan is specifically charged with not answering enough of his telephone calls. He pleads in his defense that he gets from 200 to 300 of them a day. But he could hardly spend more time at work. He usually eats lunch at his desk, constantly fighting his weight (185 Ibs.) with a low-cal chopped sirloin, cottage cheese and salad-then snitches sweets from his secretary's candy jar. His rollicking good humor leavens the fatiguing days. He responds...
...been running around not knowing what the hell I'm doing. A lot of places I've been to I haven't gotten even travel expenses." That is about to change. Nashville Talent Agent Tandy Rice has signed Billy to join the Grand Ole Opry stars he handles in his outfit, Top Billing. After Rice approached him, Billy talked it over with his brother ("I know peanuts but nothing about traveling or going in front of the public"). The President agreed that maybe the agent could help...
...fully avoid liability for such beliefs. He clearly uses Lancelot's Swiftian disgust at the "whorehouse and fagdom of America" to score points against contemporary permissiveness. One sometimes wonders just how loony Percy's hero is intended to be. Is it probable that a canny good ole boy like Lancelot would go violently round the bend at the news of his wife's cheating...