Consider the situation the Treasury secretary found himself in three weeks ago.
The Treasury secretary was in the room as the president spoke.
In fact, even his own Treasury secretary thinks he'll fall five million or so jobs short of that mark.
What do a rock star, a Treasury secretary and the pope have in common?
"Any new treasury secretary is going to have to be prepared to respond."
The next treasury secretary must also worry about America's trade deficit with the rest of the world.
Taking the lead in support of trade liberalization will be another important role for the the next treasury secretary.
In 1947, he was one of three experts asked by the treasury secretary to help prepare a new national tax program.
Secretary of the Treasury has discretion to add group life insurance and other personal lines.
But he made it clear that his goal was to become Treasury secretary, not to run a railroad.