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Published: 09/15/09

Jody Powell: Jimmy Carter's Sancho Panza

By  Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily
Jody Powell: Jimmy Carter's Sancho Panza

"Okay, trivia from this morning," the 33-year-old press secretary with a Georgia accent announced at the beginning of his first White House briefing on January 21, 1977. "The president, in his words, 'slept late.' He got up at 7:00, read two or three newspapers. He couldn't find his news summary. We'll try to get it for him in the morning." Jody Powell – once that fledgling press secretary with a caustic wit, a self-deprecating style, and a fierce loyalty to his president Jimmy Carter – died suddenly Monday afternoon of a presumed heart attack at 65 at a hospital near his home on ...

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