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- BUSINESS, Page 81Business NotesREGULATIONTake That, John Sununu!
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- There are many reasons to go the extra mile in government
- service, but leave it to banking regulator L. William Seidman
- to come up with a new one: because the White House didn't want
- him to. When the curmudgeonly chairman of the Federal Deposit
- Insurance Corporation stepped down last week at the end of a
- six-year term, he disclosed that he would have left last year
- but for the efforts of the Bush Administration to cashier him.
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- In the blunt style that particularly annoyed White House
- chief of staff John Sununu, Seidman declared, "I talked to them
- about getting out of here so they could put in somebody of their
- own. The next thing I knew, I heard the White House leaking that
- the President was trying to force me out." Fearing for the
- FDIC's independence, Seidman decided to stay. Such frank talk
- may have been the bane of Bush, but it could be the stuff of
- stardom. Starting this week, Seidman will serve as
- correspondent and commentator for CNBC, the financially focused
- cable channel.
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