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"He is widely admired, both within the Harvard community and around the world, for his statesmanship, diplomacy, and leadership in international affairs. Few government officials in our time have been held in higher regard, or have had a more significant and positive impact within their spheres of responsibility," Harvard Alumni...
But the U.S. and global economies have been the specialties of the past two graduation speakers as well. Rubin will also be the second Treasury Secretary to be invited to campus in so many months; Rubin encouraged the selection of his successor Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard’s...
Harvard Alumni Association president Scott Abell said that the incoming president did not play a role in choosing Rubin to speak.
"It is a fortuitous and very happy coincidence that Mr. Rubin accepted our invitation as the Commencement speaker several months before Lawrence Summers...was chosen to become the next president of Harvard," Abell said.
"We wanted to bring a conservative to campus," said Emily A. Abell, one of the organizers.