His treasury secretary was despatched with growing frequency to European shores to add some muscle.
That, at least, is the opinion of Mr Clinton and his treasury secretary, Robert Rubin.
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His national security adviser, his treasury secretary, and his commerce secretary have all been to China recently.
Mr Bush, who puts a high premium on loyalty, fired Paul O'Neill only after months of dissatisfaction with his treasury secretary.
Three days after the election, pressure is mounting on President-elect Barack Obama to name his Treasury secretary and other key economic advisers.
The press wondered how two such taciturn men as Coolidge and his Treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, managed to chat long enough to plot a tax crusade.
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Is the fact that Mr Bush sat silently in hour-long meetings with his treasury secretary, while Mr O'Neill prattled on, a sign of ignorance or of tolerance?
The meeting capped a whirlwind of activity that began with Bush sending his treasury secretary to Capitol Hill with a compromise package that made several major concessions to Democratic concerns.
What handicaps him is the lack of a proper understanding of the effect of the national debt on future growth (something that appears to have been encouraged by his Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner).
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Not long before Mr Bush announced a significant increase in the American aid budget at the Monterrey summit in March, his treasury secretary had been openly expressing scepticism about the benefits of such cash handouts.
"The president-elect chose Tim Geithner to be his Treasury secretary because he's the right person to help lead our economic recovery during these challenging times, " incoming White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement.
Whatever happens, the world will want some sign that the US Treasury is going to pay some attention to the global economy this year - even as the president and his treasury secretary go forth in battle over the budget.
As for dollar policy, what if he and his Treasury secretary communicated early on that dollar policy would resemble that which was mostly good under Reagan and Clinton, as opposed to clear communications to the markets that his Administration wanted the greenback to weaken?
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Obama also said he was confident in his embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Another pragmatic move would be to announce that his new treasury secretary (ideally an experienced centrist such as Larry Summers or Tim Geithner) will start working closely with Hank Paulson, the current one, immediately.
Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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Timothy Geithner has repeatedly said he does not expect to stay on if President Obama wins re-election, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney would certainly want to install his own Treasury Secretary should he defeat the incumbent.
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Obama is being urged to name his economic team quickly, especially his choice for Treasury secretary.
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That will be pretty painful for Geithner, considering he was planning to exit his role as Treasury Secretary as soon as this latest round of debt ceiling debates had concluded.
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For his choice as treasury secretary, President-elect George Bush did not look to Wall Street, which likes its money strong, nor to academia, which frowns when the currency is debauched.
Timothy Geithnerwrapped up his tenure as Treasury Secretary Friday.
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When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
O'Neill, former CEO of aluminum producer Alcoa, sat on the National Security Council during his 23 months as treasury secretary.
No matter how Jack Lew performs at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, his nomination to be Treasury Secretary has already produced one big winner: the Cayman Islands.
He'll also have an opportunity to grill the treasury secretary on his regulatory proposals.
Although the Treasury secretary expressed his displeasure with these measures--namely the degree of intervention the government is taking--he said the alternative was unacceptable.
It's with the Republican Congress and some members of his Cabinet (such as Treasury Secretary John Snow, described to me by a former Reagan official as a "mercantilist thug").
If FDR can appoint his neighbor Henry Morgenthau as Treasury Secretary and Carter could appoint two industrialists to the post, Obama would be making a fresh bold appointment that could have impressive results in the relationship between Wall Street, Washington and Main Street.
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Bunning called Bernanke a "moral hazard, " accusing him of supporting the "easy money policies of his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, " who made the cover of Time in February 1999, along with then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and his successor, Lawrence H.
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