Word: neill
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...Dick Cheney, a friend from their days together in the trenches of the Ford Administration, who lured Paul O'Neill from the executive suite at Alcoa and persuaded him to become George W. Bush's Treasury Secretary. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan loved the choice, the Vice President boasted in private two Decembers ago--and surely what made Greenspan happy would tickle the markets too. Except it didn't work out that way. A respected executive whose blunt talk the President at first found refreshing, O'Neill never emerged as a persuasive advocate for the Administration's economic policy...
...Commission chairman Harvey Pitt resigned on election night. Though the abruptness of last week's moves was startling--not least to the two men ousted--it wasn't entirely surprising. Bush's economic team has long been viewed as the weak link in a popular Administration, and both O'Neill and Lindsey were prone to gaffes that embarrassed the boss. "They lack the ability to conceive, the ability to execute and the ability to sell economic policy," said an Administration official. And that pretty much sums up both their job descriptions...
Over the past few days President Bush has sacked the vast majority of his economic team, including Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill and chief economic policy adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey. Though this should have been an opportunity to bring in new ideas that could help jump-start the economy, Bush has instead appointed more big-business cronies who will act as a mouthpiece for the same old tax-cutting nonsense that has been spewing from the White House since Bush took office...
...would like to offer our time to anyone needing to discuss the original article, or the issues of intolerance and homophobia raised in the recent response,” liaisons Catherine A. Honeyman ’04, Michael T. O’Neill ’03 and Claire S. Sulmers ’03 wrote...
...Will the three deliver believable sound bites? If they don't, they risk a similar fate to that of Paul O'Neill and Larry Lindsay, neither of whom proved capable of selling tax cuts to a wary Capitol Hill. Both men were asked to leave the administration last week in a bout of epic housecleaning...