...he was Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff details his personal struggles with cancer in his latest book. Hamilton Jordan's ''No Such Thing as a Bad Day'' (Longstreet, $22) is an inspirational memoir, a vivid portrayal of his...

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...The distance that he traveled from Plains, Ga., to the White House was so vast as to look unimaginable. But Hamilton Jordan, his young political aide, imagined it - and sketched the scenario that took him there. Jordan, who died last...

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