Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEATTLE, WASH--Harry Bridges, the renowned left-wing labor leader, yesterday retired from the presidency of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union after 43 years in the post...
...Jordan, 32. the breezy, feet-up Georgian who was Carter's executive secretary in his gubernatorial days and is now boss of "political coordination" in the White House. Referring to the longtime Georgia confidant who has helped him out on particularly knotty problems, Carter calls Jordan "My West Wing Charles Kirbo." In fact, Jordan's responsibilities are just about what he chooses to make them. Chuckles a colleague: "Power groups in the Carter White House. Hamilton is the power group...
...like the kind of stuff a chief of staff has to deal with, all those intramural problems and the paper flow." Jordan himself says that he has no desire to get in the way of Carter's contact with Cabinet officers and other staffers. The West Wing troops, he believes, must "function as a staff should -that is, to support Carter and monitor things that are going on in the Federal Government, and to help him develop and manage his programs...
...days in Georgia who are members of the senior staff -spokes in Jimmy's wheel-and have ready access to the President. Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, is probably in touch with Carter more frequently than anyone else, including Jordan. As one colleague describes the emerging West Wing pecking order: "There's Hamilton and Jody, and then there are the others." Powell was one of the eight aides and Cabinet members Carter called in last week to discuss whether he should drop the $50 rebate...
...this level, the rising stars tend to be Jordan aides. His chief deputy, Landon Butler, 35, is a key operative for the Georgia cadre and is organized labor's West Wing contact. Another Jordan man is Richard Hutcheson, 25, a former campaign aide, who oversees the paper flow into Carter's In box. Senior staffers send their memos-held to two pages, when possible-to Hutcheson for delivery to Carter. But juniors with ideas they want Carter to consider must send their notes to their own senior staffer first; if he passes a memo, it then goes...