Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton’s Tutor in War and Peace

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36. Gen. Patton said if everybody's thinking alike, nobody's doing any thinking.

He wanted his staff to discover and recommend better strategy, better tactics, better plans than what he alone could think up. Confident in his faculties, Patton did not mind loyal officers standing in opposition to him when they had reason.

I believe Hillary is usually the smartest person in the room. I don't think she always listens to opposing views.

One whose views I fear she still considers is Larry Summers. He's the guy who helped convince Bill to sign the repeal of Glass Steagall. Larry also is the fellow Joseph Stiglitz reported was wont to ask "What would Goldman think?"

Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked

By Greg Palast
Reader Supported News, September 16, 2013

Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears. Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss, Secretary Robert Rubin, and says, "What would Goldman think of that?"

Huh?

Then, at another meeting, Summers said it again: What would Goldman think?

A shocked Stiglitz, then Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, told me he'd turned to Summers, and asked if Summers thought it appropriate to decide US economic policy based on "what Goldman thought." As opposed to say, the facts, or say, the needs of the American public, you know, all that stuff that we heard in Cabinet meetings on The West Wing.

Summers looked at Stiglitz like Stiglitz was some kind of naive fool who'd read too many civics books.

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http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-goldman-sacked/

I hope I answered your question, PJMcK. Thank you for asking and caring about Democracy.