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Wow I don’t remember this kneeling down on camera. Can you link?

• shshhdhs 8y ago
  I don’t recall him kneeling. I think the commentator was exaggerating
  • bitxbit 8y ago
    No, I am not exaggerating. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26bailout.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26bailout.html [“I didn’t know I was going to be the referee for an internal G.O.P. ideological civil war,” Mr. Frank said, according to The A.P.Thursday, in the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.] There are some pictures of it as well but appears most of them have been taken down over the years.
    • EADGBE 8y ago
      > There are some pictures of it as well but appears most of them have been taken down over the years. Convenient
    • graedus 8y ago
      Thanks, that's an interesting bit of history, I hadn't noticed that before. Off-topic but ultimately related, here's another "fun" Hank Paulson moment as he talks about inequality with Robert Rubin and Sheryl Sandberg (and I believe Tim Geithner is just off-camera to the left): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln33wtom1Ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln33wtom1Ow