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The conventional wisdom was that President Bush wouldn't be able to get someone of stature to take the post of Treasury secretary whenever John Snow's much-rumored departure finally happened.(The Week)(Brief article)

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* The conventional wisdom was that President Bush wouldn't be able to get someone of stature to take the post of Treasury secretary whenever John Snow's much-rumored departure finally happened. But Bush defied the skeptics and landed Henry Paulson, the widely respected chairman of Goldman Sachs. Paulson is a conservative with instant credibility on Wall Street, and he lends the Bush economic team the gravitas it has lacked until now. An effective Treasury secretary is listened to, either in Washington or on ...

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