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Here is his Bio : Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in several fields of economics and was Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Clinton Administration. Summers also served as the 27th President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of controversy over a talk in which he speculated that women may statistically have lesser aptitude for work in the highest levels of math and science. Summers has been criticized by some liberals for the centrist economic policies he advocated as Treasury Secretary and in later writings Since returning to government in the Obama administration, he has come under fire for his numerous financial ties to Wall Street.
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Librarian's Question:
1) Do you think former Harvard University President Larry Summers is a director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama?
2) why did he try to imitate some of Rubin's gentility ?