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CONVERSATIONS

Heading true north

From the May 2000 issue of The Christian Science Journal


is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Goldman Sachs Group, an international investment banking firm based in New York. He joined the company twenty-five years ago, after serving as the Nixon White House liaison with the US Treasury and Commerce Department, with responsibility for tax policy.

In our informal conversation with him, Mr. Paulson began by sharing some "powerful moral lessons" he had learned during his time in Washington, D.C.

"It was pretty heady stuff for a twenty-six-year-old just starting out in his career," he told us. "I was impressed with the importance of the place and of my job. I was also perhaps a bit too impressed by the trappings of power, which were highly valued there because they defined your rank, relative influence, and importance.

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