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...That left only one issue: Summers' temper. Rumors abounded of an explosive temper that had cowed and embarrassed underlings at the World Bank and the Treasury Department. It took a phone call from one of Harvard's most powerful alums, Robert E. Rubin `60—Summers' predecessor as Treasury Secretary and now chair of Citigroup—to defuse the question. Rubin called three search committee members personally, reassuring Houghton, Daniel and Stone that the temper was now a non-issue, that Summers' years in government had softened...
...ROBERT RUBIN Former U.S. Treasury Secretary...
When he's not traveling the world for Citigroup or fly casting for bonefish in the Bahamas, Rubin, 62, is working at a new way of promoting freer trade. Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Rubin and former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein will lead a bipartisan discussion of how to build a centrist agenda for expanding global trade--and how market-opening treaties might accommodate or neutralize conflicting interest groups...
Though we look forward to hearing Rubin speak, we remind Harvard of the value of variety in graduation speakers. Before Greenspan, Harvard’s graduates heard from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, Czech president Vaclav Havel, and even Vice President Al Gore ’69. This mix of speakers reflects Harvard students’ wide-ranging interests, and we would encourage Harvard to return to its previous practice of selecting speakers from all walks of public life...
Such variety would also be welcomed by graduation speakers. It does Rubin a disservice for his speech to be taken as one of many, rather than listened to as a unique address for a unique event in students’ lives...