Send Former President Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan, former adviser to President Clinton, appear together in 2014 at the LBJ Presidential Library. (Lauren Gerson) He was known and known of. I realized recently that we met once, briefly, in Little Rock. I came to appreciate him with an in-awe-of curiosity. He was Vernon Jordan Jr. And with his faith kept and his finish of a race well run, on March 1, Mr. Jordan has received exemplary eulogies, warm remembrances and laurels for his life, respect and admiration. Jordan had Arkansas connections. He was a confidant, adviser and true friend to both President and Secretary Clinton. But long before meeting Bill and Hillary individually, introductions separated by four years, Jordan came to Arkansas. He wrote about it in his 2001 memoir, “Vernon Can Read!”