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...wake of the controversy surrounding Summers’ January remarks on women in science, Rubin??€”who could not be reached for this story—has made few public statements about the president, although he expressed his support for Summers shortly after the comments were made public...
Summers knew he had to make some changes before taking on a high-profile cabinet level position, and Rubin??€™s treatment worked wonders. According to journalists who covered him at the time, Summers underwent a dramatic transformation, coating his famously bold personality with a keen sense of tact and thoughtfulness. Murray calls Summers the most political Treasury secretary ever, pointing out that he is the only man to hold the job in recent memory who did not make any major public blunders...
...Summers found himself up for a promotion, as the Clinton administration was pushing Congress to confirm him as deputy secretary—the most powerful position in the Treasury below Rubin??€™s. Owen Ullman, a reporter with BusinessWeek Magazine, wrote a story about the obstacles facing the nomination entitled “Larry Summers: From Prodigy to Punching...
...Rubin??€™s joke took a stab at Summers’ overactive sense of pride, in other words, making fun of his tendency to assert intellectual dominance over his superiors...
...perhaps Rubin??€™s influence has not taken Summers far enough. Indeed, if last month’s uproar is to suggest anything about the legacy of his days at the Treasury, it’s that Washington-trained diplomacy just won’t cut it for the world of liberal academia—an institution whose structure differs fundamentally from that of government...