what they saw as a $50 billion bailout fund. after all, the stated purpose of this legislation is to end too big to fail, to get taxpayers off the hook, to bailing out these big financial institutions that fail. privatizing the losses privatizing the gains and socializing the losses as they say here in washington during this debate. he will go to wall street today, insist on strong consumer protections, insist on transparency for derivatives and insist that too big to fail come to an end. chuck and savannah? mike viqueira at the white house for us this morning as the president gets ready to leave. thank you. by the way, savannah, a little nugget we saw reported this morning, bloomberg reporting about peter orszag, the budget director potentially on his way out, deciding to leave. it s one of those thankless jobs. budget directors only last about 18 months to two years. at first there was some denial that this is idle speculation, but we ve both been hearing that there s more real
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i know he was a friend of yours, not just a professional loss but personal loss for you. he faced down slobodan milosevic and brought peace to the dayton peace accords. what made him a good peace negotiator? he was very tough. president obama said today at the state department he was one tough son of a gun. that s right. he is a man if you were president and had to face somebody who was a criminal or one of the really bad guys out there, you d call for dick holbrooke. that was especially true of the clintons. bill and hillary groomed him to be secretary of state. some thought he should have won the nobel peace prize for the work in bosnia. others thought he should be sos you secretary of state. he never got there but was willing to go out and do the messy jobs. thankless jobs. afghanistan, pakistan, you were just saying before we went on air there was something in
richard holbrooke. i know he was a friend of yours, not just a professional loss but personal loss for you. he faced down slobodan milosevic and brought peace to the dayton peace accords. what made him a good peace negotiator negotiator? he was very tough. president obama said today at the state department he was one tough son of a gun. that s right. he is a man if you were president and had to face somebody who was a criminal or one of the really bad guys out there, you d call for dick holbrooke. that was especially true of the clintons. bill and hillary groomed him to be secretary of state. some thought he should have won the nobel peace prize for the work in bosnia. others thought he should be sos you secretary of state. he never got there but was willing to go out and do the messy jobs. thankless jobs. afghanistan, pakistan, you were just saying before we went on air there was something in