No, it wasn’t from Goldman Sachs...it was Countrywide borrowing its entire unsecured reserve loan balance that pushed the Fed back into reality.
Otherwise, the credit crunch would have continued until the whole system broke.
I read that the in the am Bernake was dead set againsty raising rates. He later got a call from the GS CEO, to be followed up by additional calls and meeting that day. Bernake flipped 180 in 8 hours.
Something major happened.