High-wire act that changed the Bank World Bank turns to guarantees Seven-point plan to save the world
Is it true that Robert McNamara approached you, as he was preparing to leave the Bank in 1980, about becoming president and that you became an American citizen so that you could be considered for the job?
Bob submitted a number of names to president Carter to succeed him and he spoke to me and told me I was one of them. I had never previously given thought to this possibility although I was a huge admirer of Bob. It was discovered that you had to be an American citizen if you wanted to be president of the bank. So, inside of a week, given my long residence in the USA, the White House organized for me to become an American citizen and three weeks later president Reagan appointed Tom Clausen. It's a...
