Michael Bloomberg - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Michael Bloomberg Index / People Transcripts Christina Romer ...I remember, I was on—I guess I was a Bloomberg [News] contributing editor at tha... Janet Yellen ...and he started writing blog posts, and Bloomberg opinion pieces, and stuff like that... Peter Orszag ...guess we can go back and look at my Bloomberg or other columns—I think by 2011 or so... Martha Kanter ...other solutions could you have? I think [Michael] Bloomberg gave two billion dollars now to John... Tom Frieden ...another five years. Then, unexpectedly, Mike Bloomberg was elected mayor, and he asked me t... ...story about the selection process. With Bloomberg , he had heard about me and h... Shaun Donovan ...I don't know if you remember. Mike Bloomberg had a strong relationship with Joh... ...And McCain was actively trying to get Bloomberg 's endorsement. And I think he eve... ...And I think he even mentioned Bloomberg in one of the debates, favorably, a... ...make sure I was okay. Ultimately, Bloomberg didn't end up endorsing McCain. But ... ...this was when I had interviewed with Mike Bloomberg for the housing commissioner job. An... ...I think it was; at an event where Mike Bloomberg was the keynote speaker. As we wer... ...where you can have a Republican like Mike Bloomberg , who is very progressive on certai... ...and watching on the big TV in that— Mayor Bloomberg had a—he called it the bullpen, but ... ...that, certainly, I learned a lot in the Bloomberg administration about. I'm also... ...and not trying new things. I remember Mike Bloomberg saying to me one time, “You know wha... ...same exact person and I put him in the Bloomberg administration, and he probably get... ...the room, the way I'd interviewed with Bloomberg to be housing—no, just the two of us... ...“I'm incredibly excited.” It turned out Mike Bloomberg performed the first marriage in Ne... ...closely with them when I worked for Mayor Bloomberg . So it was very personal to me, an... ...served as health commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg , and then as head of the CDC [Center... Show more... Dan Tarullo ...or something, if you go on CNBC or Bloomberg to talk about financial regulation, th... Hannah August ...me that was very tricky, which was when Mayor Bloomberg was proposing the soda tax—ban. ... ...the day of or the day after Bloomberg announced that, we were doing a... ...about that. When I got back to my desk, Bloomberg had already seen the interview, ha... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities