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...skepticism about Kennedy was even more evident the next morning when the President's closest advisers-Charlie Kirbo, Stu Eizenstat, Jordan and Powell -gathered at 9 o'clock in Strauss's three-room hotel suite. Strauss informed them that he had called Kennedy early that morning only to be told the Senator was too busy to talk about their differences on the platform. Jordan had a similar story to report. His counterpart on the Kennedy side, Paul Kirk, had not returned his calls either. "They're not going to play ball," said Strauss. The group spent...
...search of political dope. Cabinet officers were practically begging to be interviewed, but Wilkie and most experienced Washington hands studiously ignored them, figuring they knew less than the press did. Many reporters dutifully attended formal briefings on the platform planks, but with little enthusiasm. After a session with Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief domestic adviser, one reporter was left behind snoozing in his chair...
...self-contained and often unfathomable. It may be that even after 3½ years in office the Carter presidency ultimately is founded on the judgment of six people: Carter and his wife Rosalynn, Attorney and Friend Charles Kirbo, Political Strategist Hamilton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell and Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat. There are many other influential people around the President, of course, such as Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Pollster Patrick Caddell. But for the final balancing of major policy decisions, there is no higher or more potent tribunal than the President and those five...
...high civilian officials knew the nature of the secret mission. They included Vice President Mondale, Brown, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Not even Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief adviser on domestic policy, was told about the raid. In mid-April Carter summoned the team's leaders to the White House Situation Room and wished them well on their perilous mission...
...public threats by Carter about taking military action against Iran?presumably in May. Last Tuesday Jordan called a meeting to hear their complaints. Speech Writer Hendrik Hertzberg said he could not shake "an uneasy feeling that we're slipping down a slippery slope toward a military confrontation." Eizenstat said he was worried about a disruption in world oil supplies if other Persian Gulf countries reacted to U.S. military moves by cutting oil shipments to the West. Insisted Jordan: "'The President has made no decision, not even a tentative one, to embark on such a course." When news of the dissension...