Guess who else is attending ...

Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:53 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Economy

From NBC's Chuck Todd and NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
... Obama's economic meeting today? Former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who famously broke with the Bush Administration in Ron Suskind's book, "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and Education of Paul O'Neill."

Below is the entire list of participants, according to the campaign:
-- Bill Bradley, former US senator, managing director of Allen & Company

-- Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

-- Anna Burger, secretary-treasurer, SEIU

-- Jon Corzine, governor of New Jersey

-- William Daley, former Commerce secretary, JP Morgan Chase

-- James Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase

-- William Donaldson, SEC chairman, 2003-2005

-- Indra Nooyi, chairman of PepsiCo

-- Paul O'Neill, former Treasury secretary, Blackstone Group, Alcoa special Adviser

-- Federico Peña, former Energy and Transportation secretary, Vestar Capital Partners

-- Penny Pritzker, CEO of Classic Residence by Hyatt

-- Robert Reich, former Labor secretary, professor at the University of California (Berkeley)

-- Robert Rubin, former Treasury secretary, Citigroup

-- Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google

-- William Spriggs, economics professor and chairman of the department at Howard University

-- Lawrence Summers, former Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard and

-- John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO

-- Laura Tyson, former chairman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers

-- Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman

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Comments

Pass the Arugula: Can this guy do anything without 100 advisors?

Let me guess, you're one of those people who think that a president shouldn't be too smart! In this complicated world with the problems we face, our president better get the best information he can get! So, stop whining--oh, I forgot that would be the rest of us.

Sue, Bloomington, IN (Sent Monday, July 28, 2008 11:35 AM)

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