World Bank: Bush wants US citizen for World Bank; Blair out of the race?
President George W. Bush said this week he wants a United States citizen to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, playing down speculation he might turn to departing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the job.“We’d very much like it to be an American” Bush said in an interview. He said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is in charge of the search for Wolfowitz’s successor and will take to Bush a list of those he thinks would be good for the job. Asked if his close ally Blair might be a candidate, Bush said: “I haven’t talked to Tony Blair about it, but I do think it’d be good to have a US citizen run the bank.”
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