He thought that his old reality-based friends from the Ford administration were back in power. He thought that he – and Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill – could win the quiet “inside game” for sensible policy without resorting to an “outside game” that would make his reappointment in 2004 unlikely.
格林斯潘还承认误解了布什政府的特点。他还以为是自己在福特政府的注重现实的老朋友又重新掌权了。他以为他—和财政部长保罗•奥尼尔—能够通过兵不血刃的“内部博弈”赢得理智的政策而不用诉诸可能会使他2004年连任失败的“外部博弈”。他错了。