Friedman: Bush Should Bring In Geithner As Treasury Secretary



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Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist Thomas Friedman was on the Brian Lehrer show on NPR this morning. He struck his usual interesting themes -- the next President will be managing weakness, not strength; "gonna need a bigger boat"; don't eat at restaurants, stay at home eating tuna -- but focused in on the peril faced in the interregnum between the present President and the inauguration January 20th of Barack Obama. "This financial crisis is coinciding with a political vacuum ..."

As a part of the solution, Friedman suggested (echoing his column yesterday, but said more forcefully this morning), "Have Bush bring (Obama's Treasury Secretary pick Timothy) Geithner in and then you have a formal liaison between the two teams."

Indeed.