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Article: Rubin Stepping Into Spotlight at Treasury; Quiet Power Broker Given High-Profile Role
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- The Washington Post
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- December 7, 1994
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It takes only a few minutes to walk from Robert E. Rubin's
cramped office in the West Wing of the White House to the
high-ceilinged corridors of the Treasury Department next door. But
colleagues say Rubin, the man President Clinton named yesterday to
replace Lloyd Bentsen as treasury secretary, may discover the gulf
separating the two buildings is far greater than the physical
distance.
The move to Treasury will thrust Rubin, a self-effacing
millionaire whom Clinton hailed yesterday as "the consummate honest
broker," into a high-profile role far different from his previous
experiences.
In the White House, where he headed the president's National
Economic Council, Rubin operated much as ...