RIP Vernon Jordan

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[garrow]

CNN's first day on the air covered President Carter's visit to Jordan (who had been shot by a white supremacist) in a Fort Wayne hospital.

 

[BartonK]

I knew none of his civil rights history until yesterday. To me, he was the somewhat sleazy fixer for Clinton during the Lewinsky years, memorably portrayed by Tim Meadows on SNL.