31-01-2010, 03:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-01-2010, 03:55 PM by Nathaniel Heidenheimer.)
Rather interesting background bio on Geithner given in new book To Big To Fail by NYT UperInsider and 476AD muckraker "Andrew Ross Sorkin":
That directness was the product of a childhood spent constantly adapting
to new people and new circumstances. Geithner had had a n army brat
childhood, moving from country to country as his father, Peter Geithner,
a specialist in international development, took on a series of wide-ranging
assignments, first for the United States Agency For International Dvelop-
ment and then for the Ford Foundation. By the time Tim was in high
school, he had lived in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), India, and Thailand.
The Geithner family was steeped in public service [s:egg:
hakehands:t:adore:ee:flowers:p:reddy:ed I:dancing2:musicus:a:vroamy! N.H.]
his mothers father, Charles Moore, was a speechwriter and adviser to
President Eisenhower, while his uncle, Jonathan Moore, worked in the
State Department.
.... After College, Geithner attended the Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies, where he graduated with a master's
degree in 1985... With the help of a recommendation from the dean o
of Johns Hopkins, Geithner landed a job at Henry Kissinger's consulting
researching a book for Kissinger and making a very favorable
impression on the former secretary of State.....
... with Kissinger's support, he then joined the Treasury Department
and became and assistant financial attache at the U.S. Embassy in
Tokyo, where he ruled the compound's tennis courts with his fierce
competitiveness. The courts were also a place he could hold informal
discussions with Tokyo correspondents from major publications,
diplomats, and his Japanese counterparts.
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SAIS at Hopkins was never a leader in the CIA Off Campus Movement, on account of it violated their affirmative actions.
That directness was the product of a childhood spent constantly adapting
to new people and new circumstances. Geithner had had a n army brat
childhood, moving from country to country as his father, Peter Geithner,
a specialist in international development, took on a series of wide-ranging
assignments, first for the United States Agency For International Dvelop-
ment and then for the Ford Foundation. By the time Tim was in high
school, he had lived in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), India, and Thailand.
The Geithner family was steeped in public service [s:egg:
hakehands:t:adore:ee:flowers:p:reddy:ed I:dancing2:musicus:a:vroamy! N.H.]his mothers father, Charles Moore, was a speechwriter and adviser to
President Eisenhower, while his uncle, Jonathan Moore, worked in the
State Department.
.... After College, Geithner attended the Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies, where he graduated with a master's
degree in 1985... With the help of a recommendation from the dean o
of Johns Hopkins, Geithner landed a job at Henry Kissinger's consulting
researching a book for Kissinger and making a very favorable
impression on the former secretary of State.....
... with Kissinger's support, he then joined the Treasury Department
and became and assistant financial attache at the U.S. Embassy in
Tokyo, where he ruled the compound's tennis courts with his fierce
competitiveness. The courts were also a place he could hold informal
discussions with Tokyo correspondents from major publications,
diplomats, and his Japanese counterparts.
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SAIS at Hopkins was never a leader in the CIA Off Campus Movement, on account of it violated their affirmative actions.