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January 31, 2006
A Secret to Success from Alan Greenspan
It must have taken quite a while to get the place cards just right for a White House farewell dinner held in honor of outgoing Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan (from the New York Times via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer):
At one table was Vice President Dick Cheney, the hard-nosed combatant at the Bush White House, whose friendship with Greenspan began 30 years ago in the Ford White House.
But just a few tables away was Robert Rubin, a Treasury secretary under President Clinton and a man so disliked in the Bush White House that many officials use his name as a sneering put-down -- "Rubinomics."
The guest list also included Vernon Jordan Jr., the millionaire lawyer and ubiquitous adviser to Democratic leaders, and Peter Peterson, a Republican who has infuriated the White House by lambasting Bush's budget deficits.
The Times reporter goes on to note how Greenspan’s friendships spanned the political spectrum and how few enemies he had despite a long career in Washington.
His secret?
"He likes to be challenged by intelligent people," said Andrea Mitchell, Greenspan's wife and a correspondent for NBC News.
A rare trait coming from someone whose whole career has been either Washington or Wall Street.
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