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...dresses a little more neatly and wears a few more white shirts and stiff collars. His principal aide, Hamilton Jordan, appears more often in a suit and tie and leaves his boots at home. Carter weighs a steady 154, and his bowling prowess has improved to 160-165 a game. He has had more of the White House trees labeled, and he wanders among them as friend and admirer...
...Harvard Black Law Students Association and the Charles Hamilton Houston Black Alumni Association sponsored the $2000 weekend, which featured approximately 50 prominent black lawyers, businessmen and politicians in discussion panels on the theme, "Facing the '70s: Creative Roles for Black Lawyers in the Struggle for Equality...
Flexner, author of a magisterial four-volume life of George Washington, believes that this chaotic childhood left Hamilton, for all his brilliance, a strange and scarred man, "by far the most psychologically troubled of the founding fathers." He finds in Hamilton two very different, constantly warring creatures. One is the paragon of eighth-grade history: logical, visionary, very nearly alabaster; the other, "the semimadman who sought from the world an ever-denied release from inner wounds ... The accomplished, smooth and brilliant man of the world could at any moment change hysterically, invisibly, for the time being decisively, into an imperiled...
...legacy, from both sides, made Hamilton a kind of perpetual outsider, with a low and cynical opinion of human beings. He thought men must be led through their interests and vices rather than their affections and virtues. Left so vulnerable, he was obsessed by power and order. He sought father figures-a role filled for some time by Washington; he became Washington's de facto chief of staff at the astonishing age of 20. Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should...
...logic of Hamilton's ambitions dictated that he should have become President of the country he did so much to create; it is just as well that the honor escaped him. When Jefferson once remarked that he thought the greatest men in history were Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton and John Locke, Hamilton replied that, no, the greatest man who ever lived was Caesar...