His treasury secretary was despatched with growing frequency to European shores to add some muscle.
Mr Obama won an early victory when the Senate confirmed his treasury secretary on January 26th.
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.
On the face of it, at least, it looks as if the president decided to override the objections of his treasury secretary.
Furthermore, the GAO noted in a report submitted a year ago to the man picked by President-elect Clinton to be his Treasury Secretary, Sen.
Years later, in 1996, the two reunited when Clinton anointed Summers his Treasury Secretary and Summers brought Sandberg on as his chief of staff.
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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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John Snow, the man President George Bush wants as his new treasury secretary, did his best to sound upbeat at nomination hearings in Congress on January 28th.
With such strongly articulated views, his nominee for Secretary of Treasury, Jack Lew, and his current Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner, appear to be unlikely choices for such a sensitive cabinet position.
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The stimulus row apart, the Republicans can claim to have behaved reasonably well, confirming Mr Obama's appointments without much fuss, though they did try, unsuccessfully, to vote down his new treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, for failing to pay his taxes on time.
Obama also said he was confident in his embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
His former Treasury secretary, O'Neill, reveals in this book just how woefully ignorant the president appears to be about economics.
The president and his new treasury secretary can draw up the specifics, but if they're looking for some starting points, how about opening the books?
The President also offered his gratitude to his current Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner -- who helped to guide the country through the financial crisis and get the economy growing again.
The globalists include Bill Clinton, his former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin and economic adviser Larry Summers, and most liberal executives and financiers on Wall Street and in Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
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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His position as a conduit between Wall Street and Washington, DC made the prospect of his becoming treasury secretary likely enough and painful enough that a special provision was included in MF's August bond issues providing a higher payout if Mr Corzine left for that office.
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