The aide was in Washington for a special occasion: the signing, amid much pomp and circumstance, of the Panama Canal treaty last December. The course of the day’s events eventually led him to the White House ballroom to hear President Carter make a speech, and there the aide found himself standing next to the President’s top assistant, […]
Hamilton Jordan
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How to Get a Job In the New Administration
Despite all his grand statements about an unprecedented talent search, it was no surprise that Jimmy Carter, in his first few appointments, ignored America’s vast residue of talent and its equally vast residue of hyperactive fortune-seekers and chose Jody Powell,, then Thomas Lance, then Cyrus Vance. The first two showed that the best way to […]
