Posted on 11/23/2004 8:39:16 AM PST by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON - Stephen Friedman, one of the President Bush (news - web sites)'s top economic advisers, is leaving the White House to return to the private sector in New York, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
Friedman, who worked behind-the-scenes for Bush and seldom made public appearances, is to leave by the end of the year. There is no imminent announcement on his replacement, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Friedman replaced Larry Lindsey, who resigned with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill two years ago in a shake-up of Bush's economic team.
The official said that while there has been wide speculation that Friedman might become treasury secretary in Bush's second term, Friedman had never been considered for the job because he had expressed no desire for the post. Friedman had expressed his intention to return to New York after the presidential campaign, the official said.
Bush named Friedman assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council in December 2002. He had spent 28 years with Goldman Sachs & Company where he was co-chairman for two years in the early 1990s and chairman and senior partner from 1992 to 1994.
I can imagine what the MSM is saying now! They'll turn this into another tirade about everyone leaving a sinking ship, blah, blah, blah!
I'm sure they are enjoying every bit of it.
You hate everybody, don't you?
Please Mr. President, appoint a supply-side "idealogue". No more corporate governance types. Now is the time to be bold in promoting economic growth.
No, I like William R. Hawkins and Alan Tonelson.
I think you may be right. If only he'd wash Vincente Fox out of his hair!
Heh, heh. Good feeling, huh?
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