WASHINGTON — An emotional former President Bill Clinton eulogized his longtime friend and advisor Vernon Jordan at a Tuesday memorial service, saying that in his civil rights work, in politics and in business, he was always in “the freedom business.”
Jordan had an uncanny ability to read people — and to inspire them, Clinton said.
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