"I Stay With My Friends" Says Vernon Jordan '57 of 2008 Presidential Campaign

March 12, 2007

March 12, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - "Investment banker Vernon Jordan, one of Bill Clinton's closest friends and advisers, is sticking with Hillary Clinton for president rather than join fellow African-Americans in support of [Barack] Obama," writes Robert D. Novak in his nationally syndicated column. "I stay with my friends," says Jordan, a 1957 graduate of DePauw University. As Novak points out, Jordan is "former head of the National Urban League who is now a partner at New York-based Lazard Fréres."

The text continues, "This column last week reported that Washington lawyer Greg Craig, a defense counsel for President Clinton in the impeachment trial who is backing Obama for president, met the Illinois senator in Jordan's home. Jordan said he had hosted a fund-raiser only for Obama's Senate campaign. He said he had not raised money for Obama's presidential effort, 'and I will not.'"

Access the item at the Web site of the New York Post.

Last month, Vernon Jordan was the subject of a feature in Newsweek. Read more in this previous story.

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