I didnt. I was given an office over in the Treasury. Today it is seen as structural. Well, about ten minutes later President Clinton called me. Lets recast the question a bit. NAFTA has been successful. It sounds like Bentsens Congressional or legislative savvy was not being availed of in these chaotic meetings, the policy-making meetings. You had the bilateral talks with the Japanese and the G7 format. Sure, but I dont feel we can claim tremendous credit for much of that. Im not sure anyone is ever going to pay a penalty in American society for that type of commentary. Everything is susceptible to being phased in, to being cut back, to being pilot-programmed. Well, health insurance reform was going to be very complicated, no matter how you cut it, because 85 percent of the people are already insured and only 15 percent are not, but welfare reform is something where huge numbers of people have opinions, even though they dont collect welfare. There was a camp around that view. No, not at all. I wasnt sitting all by myself with him, but sure, there were various opportunities to be in relatively small groups with him. But I think the most that the Fed can be expected to do is move short rates. Right now, again, were very far away from even the primaries still, let alone the general election, but right now the most active topic of discussion by the candidates by far is healthcare. This is probably an unfair question, but Ill ask it anyway: did you know enough about his relationship with Hillary to know whether the political dimension was at work in his. People have made that mistake and theyve suffered from it. I couldnt for the life of me see why that was a problem, but anyway, I went to the White House and told Bernie Nussbaum, the White House Counsel, just how the RTC actually operated in these matters. I cant recall what year it was but it was in the late 80s, and now its seven or eight thousand, actually up toward nine, but has more or less slid ever since. I was completelyclean bill of health from the independent counsel. He did quite well. He must have wondered what he was doing. I left the Treasury about a month later when my successor Frank Newman, who was then Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, was nominated and had been confirmed. Secretary Bentsen had already left. Hed been shot eight times. At the time we were working on it there was a sense on the Japanese side that it was a zero-sum game. Its early 94 and the process on the healthcare initiative begins. Doing concerted, multilateral action of the type youre referring to is really only appropriate in the midst of a crisis. I left the White House around April, took a couple of months off, and went back to New York. Youve been good to give us so much time. Not necessarily. Thomas Jefferson is under-appreciated as a President. Its the biggest story in Washington, Hillary Clinton, the whole thing. I remember the very stirring tableau as you may remember, the Clintons and the Gores came out onto this beautifully lit portico and there were, it seemed, thousands of people on the street in front of them. The film director, known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized It began to get organized at the end of 91. That day I knew we were headed for defeat. Youre an exception to this. Am I misremembering, did the President invite Mr. Greenspan, to sit in the gallery next to his wife when he delivered his economic policy. But he was at least alive. Certainly, when he captained it, it was a different party than it had been for the previous 50 years. Those things were at a peak in 94, just at the time healthcare was on the table. So its clear that the idea about deficit reduction and fiscal policy takes root really during this transition. But it was a rather fluid, floating group. Yes, it was a help. So I watched the Senate vote, also on television, this time in the war room. I think it was serious as a political thing, meaning you had three candidates instead of two and of course, the dynamic was different. No, I did not. And it was very effective because a lot of the people who came were opinion makers and he made a tremendous impression. One of the things that you mentioned that was in your portfolio was selling the budget package. Ive seen Washington battles and that wasnt one of them. In any event, we didnt have a currency crisis at the time of that summit, or really didnt have one until the very middle, latter stages of the Clinton years. Do you remember at what point this revised estimate comes in? So its really a role that varies from Secretary to Secretary in terms of what that Secretary wants, and thats just a history of it. Can you talk about Perots influence on the campaign? No. But I didnt know where the President was on NAFTA. Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times US managing editor, interviewed Roger Altman, co-CEO of Evercore Partners. Mostly because Clinton put everyone in a room, for endless hours, to the point where most people wanted to drop and everybody was sitting there around the table. As I recall the campaign of 1992, there were lots of policy debates amongst the Democrats. Who the key players were and so forth. As has been, as I said, so widely chronicled, the focus was on the economy because the economy was sluggish, in a recessionary state. If he predicted over the two years I worked for him, the fate of 25 pieces of legislation, he was right on all 25. The politics of the Btu tax per se versus other types of energy taxes, including the gas tax, which we ultimately fell back on, werent well considered. There was a whole bunch of work going on on that but I was completely preoccupied with the Presidents economic program and trying to get it passed, not just during the war room period but before that. Bentsen said, Youre going to ask for this, and youre going to get this, meaning that. I was there to the last day of the Carter Presidency, and all of a sudden we were able to negotiate the release of those hostages. The Secretary of the Treasury is not regularly informed of investigations that the Secret Service is doing, unless theres some special emergency reason to do it. He had good relations with certain members of Congress, and we needed that. Clinton had in fact been working on Capitol Hill during this time and I guess I was just trying to get a sense about whether that was unusual. Clinton had plied the waters of the Democratic Party with great assiduousness for many, many years. Were there different views? By and large, most of the members of the Finance Committee in the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee in the House. You may remember that Clinton put forward a white paper, if I can call it that, called Putting People First, which came out I believe at the end of 1991. The assessment was correct because, I cant recall the size of the economy then, but today it is about $10.7 trillion. How are people in the future to understand why this became such a polarized situation with Congress? I sat there for two or three hours and he took the measure of me and at the end he said, Would you like to do this? Actually, each White House that I was familiar with had its own version of what we called the National Economic Council, and if you look back for example, during the Nixon and Ford administrations, they had something quite similar. In the Carter administration, there was no real sense of what the Federal Reserve really was, what it did, how to deal with it. And Bentsen, who full knew this was going to be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal said, Im not in the Senate. I know this sounds a bit odd, I hadnt thought about it a huge amount, partly because I had a full-tilt business career, and I was trying to separate the two. No, I just remember the meeting in Little Rock quite vividly, and I think one of the first presentations was given by Allen Blinder about the economic outlook and the extent to which certain amounts of interest rate response would produce likely amounts of growth response. It was not an accident that he did that. So, third, economic policy was number one. It had a very different constituency than the economic plan. Mr. Altman began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers, advancing to general partner in 1974. He was very disciplined and he went to bed at a certain time and he went home. Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the website to operate and cannot be switched off in our systems. I thought Perot was a flake, I think Perot is a flake, so I didnt take him terribly seriously. He knew what was possible; he knew what wasnt possible. My role was also shaped by the fact that Bentsen picked his spots very carefully and not only didnt want to be involved in everything, only wanted to be involved in a very few things. People trooped down and sat around and briefed Carter, but he was sitting there figuring out do I want to appoint this guy or that person, and so forth. So he got people to serve for a long time, even if they were not intensely loyal to him. Nobody knew, especially in the White House. No, no. Then Clinton, as I mentioned, this one big event in January of 92Clinton was great on his feet. The period during which Bentsens views werent treated with quite enough respect was a very short one. Well, if you were to ask me for a moment when looking back on it, one could perhaps see that we were moving into a new period of partisanship, I would have chosen instead the [Robert] Bork battle, which I think changed quite dramatically the whole process on Supreme Court nominations and the grounds on which they were debated. Bentsen never lost an election, period, on which he was head of the ticket, ever. Its interesting too at this very moment with her book having just come out to watch some of the tapes being played on television about some of her own moments. And every day I would speak to Bentsen about it. Those are two different questions, Id rather answer the will be question. Well, yes, Carter tried a version of that. Were you making recommendations to him about how you might tighten things up in this area? I was on the board of the Childrens Television Workshop, now called the Sesame Workshop, the entity that produces Sesame Street and related childrens programming. But there was the sense, based on conversationsI think you could go back and say that there were some discussions between Bentsen and Greenspan, Rubin and Greenspan, Clinton and Greenspan, although the sum total of those conversations probably took an hour. You had been asked to be a part of that enterprise. But that was what one did as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. But therein, to some degree, lay the opportunity for Clinton to re-establish his credentials as a man of conviction. I just never took him seriously as a candidate. If you can think of a great President, a President who is seen as really great, who didnt have such a crisis, Id like to hear it, because I dont think there is one. She had a million task forces, but the senior one. But its interesting to put it into perspective. Did that debate begin as early as August? It wasnt difficult. He observed to me right off the bat that this was going to be very complicated and no cakewalk, right off the bat. He voted against it, we had a boom, he never paid a dimes worth of price for that. It was a priceless education in the way the Congress and all the surrounding politics really worked. You say you knew Rubin well, but did you have a sense that in the other places where economic policy-making is made there was ever any tension over this kind of an arrangement? You had some experience with Japan before? I view that as a very unfortunate decision the Democrats made, but that was a new low, or a new high, however you look at it, in partisanship. There were some enormous differences. I was not involved in the decision as to the sequencing of healthcare versus welfare reform. I thought he was finished. I was just going to make an observation about history, historians and non-historians who study Presidents past and present. Why does the government want to take over the healthcare system? It was the best political speech, with a couple of exceptions, Id ever heard, which prompted a wonderful comment from former President Bush, who then came to the microphone and said, Now I know why Im on the outside looking in. What political or personal characteristics does she have that he doesnt have, what does she bring to the. So it could be revived again tomorrow. How did the second transition compare with that first one in terms of cooperativeness, in terms of being organized and. Yes, he did. Now, it may last five or six more years, it may last 25 more years, I dont know. It traces to Clintons legendary wonkishness. No because Clinton had determined, as he well should havesee, Presidents often dont do this, or Presidents-elect, but they shouldBentsen had to be satisfied that this was something he wanted. They didnt want tickets to the Kennedy Center, they wantedI want this for my tomato farmers, or I want this for my citrus growers. So the question in part was: Are you going to really drive forward with an aggressive trade agenda for this administration or not? And author of the Statute of Religious Freedom for the State of Virginia. You asked me about Bentsen because of his unavailability. Its quite a difference and I ascribe it to the fact that she does not look at the world as, or at least in my experience, as solely and only politically. Sure. Was that true of Georgetown at the time that you were there? He didnt want to be involved in the daily ins and outs of those jobs. Is this before the beginning of the year or. This would have been before you were in the transition office? Not giving it a lot of thought, frankly, I said, Sure. In the last 48 or 72 hours, because that vote was also a cliffhanger, although not as close. Bob Rubin. Id served four years in the Carter Treasury but I hadnt had that much exposure in those years to the President. WebNot only are 10% of the U.S. House and Senate Jesuit-trained from Georgetown, but so are many of the world's political leaders, which should have you asking What are they really up to?" some of these were extemporaneous, he had no notes, but he was quite an impressive speaker, I thought. Then later in the process I was asked if I would go do a war room for healthcare of the type we did for the budget. He said, I know this will be hard, but I think I can get those folks. In 1987, Mr. Altman joined The Blackstone Group as vice chairman, head of advisory business, and investment committee member. In the very beginning it wasnt as availed of, as it quickly became availed of later. I think history will probably record that as the most important achievement of President Clintons overall Presidency, not the vote itself of course, but the ultimate effects of it. Can you give us a picture? So there was not any anxiety or uncertainty within the core group of people involved in economic policy making about how this might fit in or. I think his views at that point were in formation. Did you think that they took those claims seriously, or was this pure politics? That was the fundamental choice they made in devising the reform. He was very impressive. It struck outsiders as the administration never passed up an opportunity to say, This is the preserve of the Federal Reserve. What did you mean when you said, I knew how not to do it? The country needs it, the Democratic Party needs it, I need it. I mean, theyre all just issuing healthcare plans right now and there are some important differences among them, but 99 percent of the primary voters will not know those differences. We had a couple hundred people there. So the fact that if we were sitting here in 2053, that a President 54 years ago balanced the budget wouldnt mean a heck of a lot to us, right? Bentsen and Dole were very close friends, which is a measure of the stature that Bentsen had. We believed our model would attract the most talented senior finance professionals to our firm. It was an astounding speech. Most of the people I mentioned, and Im sure Im forgetting a group of them, in fact, I know I am, but, I can recall getting slightly involved in debate preparationslightly now, not deeplyattending the debates, seeing drafts of speeches before he gave them, again, not all speeches, but certain speeches, that type of role. It just depended on the size of the concession. They were using very powerful weaponsI think .20 caliber weapons. Actually, as often happens in Washington, accounts of that testimony appeared in a lot of newspapers and mostly on page D20. I wouldnt necessarily accept that. Thats just the way history works. So there were a couple of weeks of high anxiety, maybe more than that, maybe everybody was in a state of anxiety between the election and yes, it wasnt at all clear who the Secretary of Treasury would be. In the spring of 1991, I think it would have been May or June, we had the chance to have a talk here in New York, and I then talked to him by phone. He loved policy. Obviously he balanced the budget, now its unbalanced. There were some folks from the White House Press Secretarys office who were in it. I think my point is slightly different. Yes, we could have had that. So, when it came to answering Congressman Smiths questions, or Senator Jones questions, we were able to get those answers up there within two hours because we had all the people right in the room. The reason it didnt succeed a lot more than that is because its really macro factors that drive this. We met for six or seven hours in the Governors mansion there. Well, I was thinking of both actually, but in the bill. I talk to the President now from time to time with some frequency. This goes back to that question about the interim between the pain and the payoff. Erskine Bowles had to testify and so forth. Then, as the weeks and months went by, it came closer and closer and closer to whip counts. He does not see that as one of his own great accomplishments. Was the center of gravity in the White House, with you, or was it none? I can recall that we had a fundraiser. I remember that vividly the day of the convention, the morning the convention ended, or maybe the morning after it ended. She didnt cast it because of me, but it just became obvious to me in that conversation that she was very reluctant to cast that vote. I dont think hes going to make it into the pantheon of heroes, as I said. But anyway, he was quite a character. Maybe there was, I wasnt privy to that or exposed to that. Well, let me stop. It was really quite revealing of Clintons inexperience to do it that way, and, for that matter his style, a poor way to do it. It may have struck people on the outside as unusual, but not if youd been around. Well see whether it lasts or not, but I think Clinton changed the dynamic on worldwide attitudes toward trade opening, and turned trade from an obscure issue that few people in the country paid any attention to, into an important issue and an acceptance of the notion that lowering barriers to trade led to prosperity. How early were you beginning to get a sense that the Republicans were going to be an historically difficult problem for this President? I think Clinton authentically saw healthcare as more important, believed it was a bigger national problem, and thought he was tackling the bigger of the two. Mostly the latter. I divided my time between the transition office and the Treasury. But it was a mixture of considerable travel, considerable speaking, lots of radio and television shows, in some cases done locallyin other words, youre in St. Louis, youre doing them, or, alternatively from Washington where you go over to the White House and sit on a chair and do seven satellite feeds in a row, or five radio shows, or what have you. Well, I got briefed on it and basically, two points here: one is the chairman of the RTC whether it is me or Mr. Casey or the people before him, never were briefed on, exposed to, involved in, or otherwise saw anything at all about the investigations the RTC was pursuing. Well help you over here We didnt have to have the President do every one of those. I dont think anybody during the campaign expected that Clinton would turn out to be the deficit hawk that he did. The great Presidents that you mentioned, the ones that loom large, as you said, are all crisis Presidents. Hes the first guy who stepped in defeated. It was really only when Erskine Bowles became Deputy Chief of Staff that a structure began to be built around Clinton that enabled all those processes to become more organized. The Republicans in the Senate especially, led by Senator [Alfonse] DAmato who was Chairman of the Banking Committeeno, he was ranking minority member, became Chairman after the election of 94. I thought, perhaps not at that instant, but quickly thereafter, that what Clinton said to me about Wall Street economics was very funny. So he chose someone who not only had a great reputation and tremendous stature, but who could particularly help him with Congress, and it was a shrewd choice. The feelings of people along the wayside were just very endearing. But, in any event, there was some sense that if we would tighten fiscal policy, there was the opportunity to loosen monetary policy. Hed be speaking someplace and Id be playing some role at the same conference at one of the usual conference locations, and we would briefly renew the acquaintance, but I did not stay, in any organized way, in touch with him. I dont know this, but I suspect that was decided largely between the President and Mrs. Clinton. But for reasons I dont fully understand, it goes in cycles, and we came into office at a time when an up cycle so to speak on partisanship was asserting itself. We had a macro economic task force. The President made a decision he was going toand he discussed this during the campaign at lengthbe more aggressive with Japan to have a fairer, more level playing field. I believe it was a five-year statute of limitations and the expiration date was January 94 or February or something like that. I think Clinton recognized that, by virtue of his being an outsider in Washingtonhe never served in Washingtonhe needed a link to the Congress, a really superb link, of the type that Bentsen afforded, especially since Clintons first priorities were economics.The Senate Finance Committee was going to be, more than any other single place, where the action was. I believe, as I say, it was either the day of or the day after Gennifer Flowers had given her press conference. Well, we were talking about lasting changes. Things like, I cant remember what example we used, but Senator X voted for us because he was afraid hed have to have lunch with the President again, things like that. So that went on with mounting intensity over a series of months after the President had actually laid it out. But its interesting to put it into perspective. I stay in touch with him. Ultimately they were in effect combined into one big wish list, and that wish list went forward. I knew a lot about Perot, having been heavily involved in Wall Street for many years. And I also think that theres a certain sense of loyalty among the people that are currently serving in this administration, which is more in keeping with tradition, than the Clinton folks, or many of them I should say, brought to it. Clinton had his own style of charm and Bush has a little bit different style, but not very different. Now, theyre sometimes minor changes that dont require that, but any meaningful change in the later stages required the Presidents approval. Some time around 1989 or so, Hillary Clinton went on the board. A lot of people wanted to work on Capitol Hill or think tanks or with interest groups. No, there were 20-22 people there. I did the best I could. The buzz on Clinton, even then, among those few following it, was positive. and he said, No. He just determined each time that what he had to do was get through this chapter and somehow live to fight for the next one and didnt take the longer view. I long ago decided that trying to figure out how these election contests are going to ultimately resolve themselves is impossible; so I just recalled fondly the time wed known each other back more then 20 years earlier, I liked him, and in my case it was as simple as that. No, I dont remember the actual moment when we met. The basic point was Ill focus on it, Ill get it moving. The most frantic imaginable effort was going on during the five or six hours preceding that vote. But its not too different from Clintons style, very personal, very, very personal. That was not well known to me at the time. Again, I knew nothing about the substantive investigation. I mean, it can be in private, it can be in print, it can be any other way. You raised this issue with respect to the designation of sub-Cabinet officers. I said to him, If I should resign, then thats what I want to do. We came up with a Btu [British thermal unit] tax. Every time they had a new Prime Minister, we had a new set of characters. In addition, Mr. Altman is a director of New Visions for Public Schools and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. That was great. I think its wrong from a policy point of view. Sure, because you always focused on the swing votes. Now, of course, as far as working the Hill was concerned, I would take my cues from the constant and joint planning of the White House and Treasury legislative liaison staffs. Im very fond of her, extremely fond of her, and it was, Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. [Mary Todd] Lincoln? But I interpreted that to mean, Maybe you should, because I felt that if he thought I shouldnt, hed say so. We came into office, the trade imbalance of payments deficit with Japan had risen to very high levels. I just didnt; it wasnt my style. Roger Altman (left) launched Evercore in 1995 and shed the CEO title in May of last year when Ralph Schlosstein (right) took it and quintupled assets under management to $15 billion. Also, wed had 12 years of Republican rule and there was a widespread sense of time for change. I didnt do any work on personnel until Secretary [Lloyd] Bentsen was designated Treasury Secretary. Those meetings were, at one level, rather riveting, but at another level they were disorganized. I follow it pretty closely, and I have a hard time figuring it out. It was a very simple letter that was done up for me and I sent it to everybody saying, Just so you know, the RTC has only these procedural options in matters like this, and we will be reaching a decision on which of them to do before the statute of limitations expires. Now John Snow didnt learn that, hed never been there before and so forth and so on, whatever excuse fits him. Were they talking broad strategy, were they keeping whip counts? Do you have any recollections or observations about the President in that environment? But I dont recall encountering him at all. Gene Sperling was in it. We went back to square one. But it doesnt mention that he was President. The second point is the nature of the key individuals chosen. So if Clinton and Burns ever had any conversations, they certainly didnt communicate, Im sure. It was very effective because it was a group of roughly 20-25 people, working literally 19-20 hours a day with only one mission, and that mission was to get this bill passed. I then had the brilliant ideaIm saying this, obviously sarcastically, that I should inform the White House what those procedural alternatives were. We talked a lot about the organization of economic policy-making and the role of the Treasury because I had a certain history. They all came to the same conclusions. We just discussed one of them, which is the up cycle in partisanship, as I call it. Remember, I was there during the 1963-67 period. Tulip Brenner (Carol Burnett) tells off her sister-in-law (Peggy Ann Garner) in Robert Altman's "A Wedding." Everything imaginable. Altman ran the White House war room during last And the difficulty became quickly evident once the program was laid out. Did you ever get the sense that there were some people who mystified him? It was just an evolution of the prior role. Or was it just that you were persuaded that he was going to be a great candidate? My comment is a retrospective comment. The bigger gamble then was, as you say, the long term, the response in the long-term credit markets, whats going to happen, and that, I take it, is where Allen Blinders. 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