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ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: In the first year of the Obama administration, few cabinet secretaries, if any, have had to combat more severe problems and widespread outrage than Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. A country battling the worst recession since the Great Depression. A financial system teetering on the brink of collapse. A population furious with Wall Street’s abuses and Washington’s bailouts. A flurry of lawmakers calling for his resignation. Maybe that’s why Geithner felt the need to apologize to his family even before accepting the position at Treasury. “When he first took the job, he said he was so...

“INSIDE OBAMA’S WASHINGTON” A POLITICO Video Series January 25, 2010 (Recorded January 22, 2010) INTERVIEWER: MIKE ALLEN, Chief White House Correspondent GUEST: TIMOTHY GEITHNER, Treasury Secretary CHAPTER 1 MR. ALLEN: Hello. I'm Mike Allen, White House correspondent of POLITICO. Welcome to POLITICO’s video series, "Inside Obama's Washington." We're here at the Treasury Department with Secretary Tim Geithner. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY GEITHNER: Nice to see you, Mike. MR. ALLEN: How confident are you that a clear recovery will be underway by this spring? SECRETARY GEITHNER: Very confident. The economy is healing. It's growing. It's more broad based. You see the...