Posted on 03/03/2021 6:42:34 AM PST by Hojczyk
Vernon Jordan has died. He was 85.
Jordan was a partner and an institution at the law firm where I worked. He had an office on the same floor I did. I never really got to know Jordan, but did have the opportunity to observe him.
Jordan didn’t just care about young people. My observation was that he cared about everyone he worked with.
When working long hours, I would set myself up in a conference room near the elevators on our floor. If Jordan popped by the office at night or on weekends and saw me on a regular basis, he would come into the conference room, ask how I was doing, and encourage me to finish up and go home to my family. If he passed me in the hallway and saw that I was stressed, he would notice and say a kind word or two.
At the firm, I benefitted from Jordan’s legendary ability to bring in business, some of which I worked on. Of course, I appreciated that. But I appreciated his kind words more.
The last time I saw Jordan was in December 2017. It was at a restaurant where I was celebrating the holidays with a few friends. One of them was about to leave the firm and take a high-level position in the Trump Justice Department.
Jordan entered the restaurant with his wife and another couple. He spotted us and walked across the room to congratulate my friend and wish him well. Class.
The last time I saw Jordan on television was in a recent PBS special. At one point in the documentary, Jordan said that whatever he had achieved in life, he accomplished through perseverance and hard work.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Isn’t that the truth...I sure do feel that way.
What I am having a struggle with is disentangling the natural human crustiness of getting older with the actual actions of people who overtly want to destroy what this country stands for.
I don’t think it is just me getting older, but...it does cause me to spend extra mental energy contemplating it.
What a pox the Clintons and the Obamas have been on this country.
I disliked Carter intensely, but always viewed him as more inept rather than malicious.
With Clinton, Obama, and now this administration, there is ineptitude aplenty, but...I see malignant intent as the primary driving force of negative change.
Yes.
Thank you...excellent post. It is a good reference post.
Yes, he was, for the most part, a “fixer” like Katherine Ruemmler was for Obama.
And people like that are not in the least concerned with legal niceties. They are concerned with protecting the “client”.
If he’s remembered at all it will only be as Clintooon’s fixer in the whormonica situation
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