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Jody Powell: Jimmy Carter's Sancho Panza
By Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily"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 ...
Jody Powell, Jimmy Carter's White House Press Secretary, Dies
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyJody Powell, President Jimmy Carter's longtime aide and White House Press Secretary, died this afternoon of an apparent heart attack. He was 65. Powell was born on a farm in Vienna, Ga. He started in politics as an unpaid errand runner and driver for Jimmy Carter's campaign for governor in 1970, but became his press secretary in the Governor's mansion. He remained Carter's spokesman for 10 years -- during Carter's term as governor, as a presidential candidate and throughout the Carter presidency from 1977 to 1981. In Washington, Powell was 33 when he took the White House post. As a part of ...
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