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• michael mahoney replied on 03:32 AM on January 09, 2008
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• michael mahoney replied on 08:32 AM on January 09, 2008
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• Judith Lorens replied on 09:04 AM on February 09, 2008
  I believe that change will trump all both economy and the war issues. The American people have had it with gridlock and devisive politics.
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• Judith Lorens replied on 02:04 PM on February 09, 2008
  I believe that change will trump all both economy and the war issues. The American people have had it with gridlock and devisive politics.
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• J.T. Howard replied on 05:41 PM on March 27, 2008
  I think the most important things about the upcoming election, at least for me, and I think they should be at the forefront of everyone's mind, is the economy. A lot of people are hurting right now. On top of that, we have very little international support as a country. It's important to be diplomatic when you're a world super power, if we even are anymore. The war in Iraq should've never have started, never mind the fact that it shouldn't continue. So that's a big one as well.
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• J.T. Howard replied on 09:41 PM on March 27, 2008
  I think the most important things about the upcoming election, at least for me, and I think they should be at the forefront of everyone's mind, is the economy. A lot of people are hurting right now. On top of that, we have very little international support as a country. It's important to be diplomatic when you're a world super power, if we even are anymore. The war in Iraq should've never have started, never mind the fact that it shouldn't continue. So that's a big one as well.
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What should be the big issues of the 2008 election?

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Question: What should be the big issues of the 2008 election?

Lawrence Summers: I suspect in the election Iraq, economic security for middle class val … middle class families. Attitudes towards the social issues are likely to be central concerns in the election rather than these longer term and more profound challenges. But I suspect the debates over those issues will give a chance for candidates to demonstrate their philosophical orientation, and perhaps something about the . . . their competence as potential leaders and managers of the federal government.

Recorded On: 6/13/07

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Lawrence Summers Director, National Economic Council

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Lawrence H. Summers is the Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.  He was appointed by President Barack H. Obama on November 24, 2008.

Until January, he was the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He served as the 27th president of Harvard University from July 2001 until June 2006. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury following his earlier service as Deputy and Under Secretary of the Treasury and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. Summers has taught economics at Harvard and MIT. His research contributions were recognized when he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40, and when he was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award for outstanding scientific achievement. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and has written extensively on economic analysis and policy publishing over 150 articles in professional economic journals.

Lawrence Summers received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, have six children.

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