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...remarks made Wednesday, Summers thanked his predecessors Lloyd Bentsen and Rubin...
...Secretary Bentsen set the Treasury on the right course, emphasizing deficit reduction, cooperation, for growth around the world," he said. He continued, "Secretary Rubin has seen the Treasury and the global economy as a whole through enormously challenging times with a steady hand...
...from now will identify factors you can't see from where we're sitting." Those same historians will also be arguing whether Rubin merely rode the wave or whether his hand was on the rudder. But one thing is certain: They won't be giving the credit to Lloyd Bentsen...
...Michael Dukakis's old running mate had Rubin's job from 1992 to 1995 while Rubin headed President Clinton's newly created National Economic Council in the White House. The expansion, and the unstoppa-bull that went with it, started on Bentsen's watch. But in 1993, it was Goldman Sachs veteran Rubin (with an assist from Greenspan) who persuaded President Clinton that his dreams of a prosperous American middle class had to be kick-started by balancing the federal government's then blood-red budget books. A credible deficit reduction plan would please the bond market, the former arbitrageur...
...Bacon interviewed Lloyd Bentsen 2 Bentsen is a descendant of Henry Wilson 3 Wilson was Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant 4 Grant was head of the Union Army during the Civil War 1 Bacon hired Monica Lewinsky as an aide 2 Lewinsky grew up in Beverly Hills with Tori Spelling 3 Spelling appeared with Neve Campbell in Scream 2 4 Campbell was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon 1 Bacon covered Jimmy Carter's Defense Department 2 Carter was advised by Clark Clifford 3 Clifford was an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 F.D.R. was a cousin of Teddy...