Word: rohatyn
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...detailed way, and the great thing about the President is that he gets into a detailed level with anybody. I've seen him talk about records with David Geffen, where he can talk about an obscure 1950s bebop act, talk economics with investment bankers like Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner, talk movies with Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks...
Another major reason for the powerlessness of the politicians is the morphing of the old Paris-centered France into a more complex, decentralized nation. A keen observer of this process is U.S. Ambassador to France Felix Rohatyn, who has set up five new American diplomatic posts in various cities in response to it. "I saw that the combination of the euro and the single European market, and the elimination of frontiers, was inevitably going to lead to a decentralization and increase the importance of regional centers and cities as they created their own alliances," says Rohatyn. "More and more businesses...