Even his old mentors, who previously thought of the li’l fella like a son. Gary Weiss has a profile of the Treasury Secretary over at Portfolio and while there are several excellent descriptions of the varying expressions on Geithner’s face ranging from shady (“the eyes of a shoplifter”) to shitty, as in I just shit my pants out of fear (“Think Bambi looking into the headlights of an 18-wheeler”), and quotes from a few people who think Geithner is not the man for the job, nobody from the old neighborhood will go to bat for the guy!
[When I profiled him last year], some of the nation’s most prominent figures in government and finance–former Federal Reserve chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, as well as John Thain, then CEO of Merrill Lynch, and former New York Fed chief Gerald Corrigan–were only too happy to share fond anecdotes about this youthful public official on the rise.
When I approached them again for this article, to get a word in defense of their beleaguered friend, the reaction was far different. Greenspan was “working against a series of his own deadlines and sends his regrets,” a spokesperson told me. Volcker was “not granting interviews.” Corrigan also declined to comment on Geithner. “It’s just a little bit early in his tenure,” said a spokesperson.
I can be very discreet. But I’ll haunt your dreams.
john thain was on the ($35,000) can.
To be fair, nobody really wants to be associated with Greenspan or Thain anymore either.
Where exactly are the headlines on an 18-wheeler?
@4- headlines? or headlights?
@5 – (“Think Bambi looking into the headlines of an 18-wheeler”)
@7, why wouldn’t B.O. stand up for his boy? When Geithner gets the heave-ho, he can always be Bo’s dogwalker.
@7 – The Artist Formerly Known as Prince or the Banker Formerly Known as Prince?