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...secret that Robert E. Rubin ’60 and University President Lawrence H. Summers share a special relationship that extends from the White House to Mass. Hall...
...worked together closely as top economic advisers to former President Clinton, becoming one of the most powerful teams in Washington. And when Rubin left his post as U.S. treasury secretary, he worked to secure Summers’ place as his successor...
Although their Washington relationship came to a close in the late 1990s, Summers and Rubin are now colleagues again on the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing body...
...years after leaving the Treasury, Rubin played an instrumental role in Summers’ ascension to the Harvard presidency. A year into Summers’ tenure, Rubin was selected for a spot on the Corporation. The successor to a Corporation member is selected by the other six members, including the president, who has historically exerted substantial influence on the pick...
...international institutions it effectively runs (the IMF, for example) always confuse America's own interests with what's good for everyone. This is true no matter who is in power, Mahbubani says. Indeed, the architects of the U.S. response to the Asian financial crisis were then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin?now practically worshipped in the U.S. as the man behind the Clinton boom years?and Larry Summers, who succeeded Rubin as Treasury Secretary. Devout Bushies they are not, but neither saw the disconnect that to many Thais seemed utterly obvious after the fact: between what was good for America...