A president and his Fed chair clash. Sound familiar?
A president and his Fed chair clash. Sound familiar?
- October 27, 2020
- Gary Richardson, Marketplace, Oct. 27, 2020 (Audio)
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Gary Richardson, a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine, and Fed historian, said the almost 6-foot-4 [President Lyndon B.] Johnson even shoved the much shorter [William McChesney Martin Jr.,] up against the wall. He described the confrontation this way: “These grown men going at it. Johnson shouting, bullying, pushing, kind of physically manhandling the chairman of the Federal Reserve.” Richardson said Martin was shaken but stood his ground.
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