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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...
PARIS: With the death of Pamela Harriman, the diplomatic post par excellence is a toss-up between Frank Wisner, the most senior member of the U.S. foreign service, and New York financier Felix Rohatyn. But only Monsieur Felix has the means and Lazard Freres connections to entertain in the grand style of the City of Light...
...Ross Perot mellowing with age, like most people do? No, sir. In an interview with TIME in his museum-like office last week, he lambasted House Republicans for playing a "shell game" with the Contract with America, blamed "idiots" in the Senate for scaring investment banker Felix Rohatyn away from the Federal Reserve Board and slammed lawmakers generally for playacting rather than attending to the nation's woes. "The strutting, the pouting. Congressmen standing on the steps of the Capitol, demonstrating this, demonstrating that," Perot says. "This is great for the evening news, but it does nothing to solve...
...that it did between 1970 and 1995," he said at a New York fundraiser last week. "It ought to be debated within a commitment not to let inflation get out of hand." By appointing Rivlin, he hopes to create encourage that dialogue on the Fed. Unlike investment banker Felix Rohatyn, who withdrew his name from Fed consideration under heavy criticism of his economic philosophies from Senate Republicans, "Rivlin should not have a hard time getting confirmed by the Senate," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "She is known as a deficit hawk, more so than almost anyone in the administration. Although...