...in government, and you’d have to get some oldsters if you wanted Carter appointees. As someone typed on another blog, Hamilton Jordan is dead. My objection to Summers isn’t that he’s a Clintonite — it’s that he’s not equipped with the built-in editorial function...
...and understood how to turn political wishes into results. By the time Carter and confidants, such as Jody Powell and Hamilton Jordan, figured it all out, it was too late. Remember Bert Lance? Carter had known him since the mid-1960s, and he brought practical...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance 4- Remembrances of Carters National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski 5- Remembrance of Hamilton Jordan Political Adviser to Jimmy Carter ( In 1982, his book CRISES, The last year of the Carter Presidency-Interview with...
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...in the White House and in the Departments. Who else is he going to get other than Clinton folks for his transition? Hamilton Jordan is dead. God, are we going to fracture Obama’s power base completely if we freak out like this at every little thing. While...
...farthest table in the balcony, far from the new president. “The next morning,” O’Neill wrote in his memoirs, “I called Hamilton Jordan and said, ‘Listen, you son of a bitch. When a guy is Speaker of the House and his family gets the worst seats in the room,...
...You just told everybody. MARK SHIELDS: It's not a secret. I just told everybody. And -- but, I mean, you want to go through Hamilton Jordan being the greatest example. Hamilton Jordan was a very able political operative, the late Hamilton Jordan, ran Jimmy...
...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...
...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...
...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...