The Difference Between Being a University President and Being a Cabinet Officer
At a dinner last week to announce the winner of the business book of the year award, Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary, poked fun at his tenure as the president of Harvard. . . .
Specifically, he said he was woefully naïve when he had been first asked to describe the difference between being a university president and being a cabinet officer. ''I guess I didn't get it right in the answer I gave in my first year or two,'' he said, ''because I used to say, 'Well, in Washington, it's so political; there's organized opposition to everything.' ''
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