...in what had to be, I would say, easily two hundred pages of written material. ... As the time got closer, I went to Hamilton Jordan and said, "You know, we've got to talk about these things. We can't let the man just read this enormous briefing book and go...
... The buildup to the debate and its proximity to Election Day heightened the atmosphere surrounding the event. Carter adviser Hamilton Jordan recalled that “polls showed that people had quit making up their minds. It was as if the entire election had been put...
...for Saturday Night Live, going away. But Carter won the campaign with just 50.1% of the vote to Fords 48%. I remember Hamilton Jordan saying something I will never forget. He said the mistake that had cost Carter his big lead, and nearly cost him the election...
...little-known, one-term Georgia governor when he began winning caucuses and primaries early in 1976. He and his young aides, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, outfoxed the entire Democratic establishment and then beat the incumbent Republican president. It was...
...California Rep. Robert Matsui. Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, journalists Peter Jennings and Tim Russert, and Hamilton Jordan, who was a strategist for former president Jimmy Carter, were also honored. Copyright Š 2003 - 2008 AHN - All rights reserved. Redistribution,...
...Dem if ever there was one, took the lead along with Mayor Andrew Young in attracting the convention. However, the late Hamilton Jordan drew up the plans for Atlanta’s debut on the big-time political scene. Young and Harris followed Jordan’s counsel to the...
...strategist James Carville into rock stars. Before then pollsters Bob Teeter or Pat Caddell, political strategists Hamilton Jordan and Lee Atwater, or media Consultant Michael Deaver were occasionally in the media but not "of" the media. But over the last two...
...turned off House Speaker Tip O'Neill with his rhetoric. O'Neill, in turn, called Carter's White House chief of staff Hamilton Jordan "Hannibal Jerkin." Relations were a little better for President Bill Clinton, who invited House Speaker Tom Foley and other...
...eyes on the presidency years earlier and set out to run while the 1972 campaign was still going on. Guided by his young aide Hamilton Jordan, Carter executed a sophisticated strategy that recognized and exploited Americans? yearning for a leader in whom they...
...the presidency years earlier and set out to run while the 1972 campaign was still going on. Guided by his young aide Hamilton Jordan, Carter executed a sophisticated strategy that recognized and exploited Americans’ yearning for a leader in whom they could...