John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He had been the deputy to Bob Rubin when he was Treasury Secretary. He was a supporter of the Democratic side of politics. He certainly had a very good record as a fiscal conservative because during the period that the Clinton government was in office the American budget deficit was lower than it is now. He was generally regarded as highly competent in the job that he did. I don’t think time permits us to debate everything related to his views when he was at Harvard, but he certainly has very good credentials as far as the economy is concerned and as far as being very much on what I might call the progressive side of politics is concerned.

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