Department of the Treasury - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of the Treasury Index / Organizations Transcripts Jake Sullivan ...intelligence resources. It involved the Treasury Department sanctions authority. It involved ... Ricardo Zúniga ...trials, designations of people by the Treasury Department , all of those. But what we saw on th... William Burns ...Well, what was unique, I think, was the Treasury Department , for example, with a lot of smar... Wally Adeyemo ...as deputy executive secretary of the Treasury Department . He was then chief of staff at th... ...of staff and senior advisor at the Treasury Department from 2011 to 2015. And, finally, he wa... ...once I started interviewing at the Treasury Department , it was really the fact that I ha... ...As deputy executive secretary at the Treasury Department , I'd like to get a sense of what you... ...and a number of smaller parts of the Treasury Department as well. The reality was, because the... ...because in addition to the crisis, the Treasury Department has over a hundred thousand employees... ...Revenue Service] is part of the Treasury Department . Secretary Geithner is the decisio... ...Senate-confirmed officials within the Department of the Treasury so it would not all come to th... ...in that translator role between the Treasury Department and also the staff secretary's offic... ...officials we had confirmed at the Treasury Department early on. You were really in a plac... ...taking a weekend off from the Treasury Department . But from that February day when ... ...there was an active effort within the Treasury Department and within the Federal Reserve t... ...while lots of that happened within the Treasury Department , a lot of it also happened with th... ...talked about the pace of working at the Treasury Department in those first months, and yo... ...knew less about the operations of the Treasury Department and the government. And my expertis... ...issues, or what pulled you back to the Treasury Department ? So there was definitely a part o... ...you became deputy chief of staff at the Treasury Department , what your portfolio looked like, an... ...at that time, the work in front of the Treasury Department ? The place where I was mos... ...you're analyzing the situation in the Treasury Department , how realistic did you think thes... ...a number of my colleagues at the Treasury Department . So that was a place. And when yo... ...miss anything from your time at the Treasury Department . Ultimately, you were at the Treasur... ...Department. Ultimately, you were at the Treasury Department for almost six years. Is there anythin... ...official, he had never worked in the Treasury Department . So part of this was, while h... ...to him was helping him understand the Treasury Department , and also the internationa... ...international affairs actually left the Treasury Department , which increased the amount of work ... ...lot of people with my background at the Treasury Department , not a lot of people in economi... ...the time that you had spent at the Treasury Department , what were you thinking as you too... ...serve in one of the senior roles at the Treasury Department , based on the work I had done with hi... ...plays a big role, the secretary of the Treasury Department traditionally plays a huge role. And h... ...coordinator. I had been doing it at the Treasury Department as deputy executive secretary. I did i... ...worked with when I was at the Treasury Department . [INTERRUPTION] One of the things ... ...beginning, not now just for the entire Treasury Department but for the entire United State... ...which you're working with the Treasury Department on, to climate change. And making sur... ...would allow me to advance them, in the Treasury Department first, at CFPB, then at the Whit... ...when they think about sanctions is the Treasury Department , in terms of financial sanctions. Bu... ...Europeans on our approach. So at the Treasury Department , I spent a great deal of time wit... ...fall largely within the gamut of the Treasury Department , but a lot of the economic agencies... ...it was you thinking about it at the Treasury Department or others in the administration? An... ...of this was that the reality was, the Treasury Department was already thinking through a numbe... ...to do was to use the opportunity of the Treasury Department 's actions to lift them up from th... ...of the experiences that you had at the Treasury Department , so I wonder if you could flesh tha... ...be central to the work we do at the Treasury Department , in thinking through how do we use th... ...how do we use the authorities of the Treasury Department , the bully pulpit of the Treasur... ...Department, the bully pulpit of the Treasury Department , to advance what I think is central t... Show more... Terry Szuplat ...military advisors behind him, in the Treasury Department , on a government—and it wasn't ... James Jones ...actors. But it's important to have the Treasury Department ; it's important to have the energ... Hillary Clinton ...ministry and economic ministry with our Treasury Department and State Department, and we wer... Tom Donilon ...up being the general counsel of the Treasury Department —two brilliant young men. Jake, one o... Michael Froman ...East, and the chief of staff at the Treasury Department . He received his law degree fro... ...financial crisis, having worked at the Treasury Department and the White House during the Mexica... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Labor Labor go to the Hawaii Hawaii go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation