Timmeh?

He can't recall:

Geithner says in the book that he did not recall that Obama was mad at him about the Citigroup decision and rejected allegations contained in White House documents that his department had been slow to enact the president's plans. "I don't slow walk the president on anything," Geithner told Suskind.



Ron Suskind, investigative reporter, puts it together:

"The Citbank incident, and others like it, reflected a more pernicious and personal dilemma emerging from inside the administration: that the young president's authority was being systematically undermined or hedged by his seasoned advisers," Suskind writes.



Larry Summers, the former White House economic adviser, is quoted as lamenting that he and others felt "home alone" and that mistakes made under Obama would not have happened under President Clinton, for whom Summers also served. Interviewed by Suskind, Summers initially denied making such comments, then acknowledged them, saying he was frustrated at having "five issues" of major importance to deal with at once and not "five times as many" officials to handle them.



And this is rich, from Larry Summers:As far as I'm concerned, this is a very big story, as the failure to deal with the zombie banks is one of my biggest problems with President Obama. If he actually wanted it done, and he was countermanded, well, that does change the landscape a bit.

Sorry, I know it's a short diary, I'm a lazy son-of-a-bitch, but inquiring minds can click the link and read more. I just wanted to get the word out.

H/T Southof for this link to a NY Times article:

The book, by Ron Suskind, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, quotes White House documents that say Mr. Obama’s decisions were routinely “re-litigated” by the chairman of the National Economic Council, Lawrence H. Summers. Some decisions, including one to overhaul the debt-ridden Citibank, were carried out sluggishly or not at all by a resistant Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, according to the book.