Vernon Jordan was a power broker, civil rights leader, and best friend to the 42nd president. A new book offers a peek inside their powerful relationship:
), the consequences would be devastating, imperiling his presidency, and forcing Jordan into an uncomfortable role at the center of a national scandal.
The Clintons stayed put, forged ahead, and two years later, Bill Clinton, with Hillary Rodham Clinton by his side, took the oath of office as the 42nd governor of Arkansas. Amid the sea of onlookers at the front of the Capitol was a beaming Vernon Jordan. Jordan was more cautious. He knew how ruthless the Bush political operation could be; he had seen campaign manager Lee Atwater’s infamous and racist oppo-research smear, deployed four years before, against the Democrats’ Mike Dukakis. “Are you tough enough to handle this?” Jordan asked his friend. “If I’m not,” replied Clinton, “then I’m not tough enough to be president.”
Interestingly—and never disclosed before—the man Clinton ultimately picked, Senator Al Gore of Tennessee, was not on that short list. The short list exhausted, Clinton turned to his longer list. Gore immediately shot to the top, but as a fellow Southerner from the baby boomer generation, he didn’t offer geographic, demographic, or even ideological diversity. Plus, Clinton didn’t know if the two would mesh personally. On the day of his interview, Gore traveled in a Ford Bronco with tinted windows to secretly meet with Clinton at the Capitol Hilton.
Like the lawyer he was, Jordan had come ready with his rebuttal. Twenty of the previous 30 years he had worked as a civil rights activist, at relatively little pay. Now he was making real money. But beyond the pecuniary considerations, he thought he could be a more effective transition chair if he wasn’t in contention for a job himself.
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