O'Neill, Paul

---fired by neo-cons?
pal of CTW, tried to do right on AGW?suskind

price of loyalty

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june04/loyalty_01-15.html

published in early 2004, The Price of Loyalty chronicled the tenure of Paul O'Neill as Treasury Secretary during the Bush Administration. Like all treasury secretaries, O'Neill was the top domestic advisor to the president, as well as a member of the pivotal National Security Council. The book featured over 19,000 documents provided by O'Neill from his first two years with the Bush Administration.[1] Among the most damaging accusations in the book was that invasion of Iraq was on the agenda as early as February 2001, nearly 7 months before the September 11 attacks.

docs offline?

S&S 2004

d p moynihan threat to nat sec not secrets revelaed but bad analysis vii

rmn set up OMB to coord b/c the world too complex; dc 28yo phd brought to Off Ec Opp (to carry on lbj grt soc) by Rumy; ex congr
dick armey: bi-part is another word for date rape (in minority) p11

PO head of RAND also at alcoa
at vet said called for 50c gas tax, deeply involved in climate change to DC

b2 trans team 100 staff, effic

1st cab mtg 1/31 PO gave of GW panplet from alcoa, incl CTW, who worried about her turf;

1st working mtg of secret task force NEPDGp, tightly controlled by DC; aspenser, mineta, veneman, evans, norton, karen hughes, karl, and pol staff along wall.

ctw testify on brownfield but knew reporters wd catch her outside, said AGW p99 extension of b2 election; oil anfdgas jrnl called his co2 pledge extreme 99 b2 said he had trouble w/ kyoto and talks put off to give time to formulate policy but never happened (intended?) 99

ctw 54, 2nd in name rec only to c powell; dad rich connected judge; nelso rock, rmn OEO, marr banker (dad gov); took on sen bill bradly at peak, sacrificial, but only lost by 3, won gov as mod;

late feb no dir from b2, so went to rice and card with hedge: fixin to move on co2 101 based on confidf from mtg, she piahed back on Nova[no c]k on crossfire : CO2, sci is good 102 annunced discussion on how to implement,

PO thought ctw doing a powell: just announce a pol, if only to make b2 state his; ng on GW for months; DC was doing energy, but climate is other side of coin, must be done in tandem, set up interancency process 103: figure out how to price carbon then apply to countrties in kyoto

dept of state Daniel Bodansky already tageted; anon memo on st dept lttrrhead to 5 cons gop sen: hagel, helms, also attacked NSC Ian Bowles (both BC, as gore supporters) want to boc b2 bwetween bad policy and bad PR, off the rez; hagel sent widely, incl armitage and evans at commerce 104

PO says kyoto only buys us 11 yrs but wd make us reduce energy use by 30% 2008-12. 104 shd reframe: use measuarable co2 ppm, not try to track emissions; get all the info then make a plan; make group along w/ energy TaskF, get geo shultz, to wrangel; pres C-M u, Jared Cohen, env sci and Michael Oppenheimer for rigor/cover fair fight 106 pain in the ass

700m$ oops, PO heads off at printer's office; b2 lied in S of U? 109

world pleasantly surprised at trieste (g8?) ctw wrote tough memo to b2 (in plane home?) our cred on line

sen ltr, ctw goes to PO; agreed fact based approach, an issue they could own; both thot DC wrote ltr; also seemed like his MO: pick issue, talk to ppl, create docs that look like discussion/analysis going on to get answer, then guide group to precooked concl 120

[she played her open door card; prepped/reduced complex [2 stacks of clippings?] cut her off, decided; ~ kyoto b/c 80% world excl, incl India and China 121 changed mind on co2; priority is energy; coal to nat gas; CA crisis
"clean kill"  DC picks up ltr to take to Hagel 122.

ctw shocked at hagel rollback, back to study; made no sense to PO; we gave away the env (as an issue?) 123

the base likes our stance and who knows on sci; hagel ltr makes clear only energy and economy matter; both PO and ctw see DC behind it; exactly hos pos in TF; he had beome an ideologue; b2 relies on lindsey, rove and DC 126

180 based on cab level review (lie) press said DC and SpENCER abeRAHAM? winners; 180 in 1st 100 days w/o event driver almost unheard of; shocked non texas ppl; plans to take iraq oil; 129 CA crises easing and not due to real shortage but used as excuse; PO decided that he ctwe and CP were cover to make it look like smart ppl were doing analysis, vs rt wing kneejerk [not just oppos of BC policy]

b1 1989 orderd big energy study, unpredented in scale, 1991; bill failed b/c of anwr
dc had seen  2 energy crisis, run co sop thot expert
CA crisis: 145 gov considd3rd bailout of energy co's; forced supplies to sell excess power to CA; CA passed 10b bond to prop them; PO thot TF odd b/c no outsiders (the purpose of TF is to get input) but wd meet w/ lobbyists after mtgs; SE met w/ chevron, mining, NPRA; norton indians wanted pwr plant; DC enron lay, coal; ctw auto makers, edison 147 PO 3 calls from Lay; ltr GS Hank P for J aron energy suplier to CA (pulled out before others busted); when b2 there, literally scripted 147 what purpose? all did bit but ctw no aked to speak; PO watch B2 for reaction; b2 does not seem to read even short memos PO sent; so troubling when b2 asked no q

TASKF apr 11 phase 2: recs  YP and 8 cab; rove took bigger role; ctw, it's a slaughter 10-2. anwr, nuke, coal, nat gas rules; streamline new (coal?) plants; idea sems to be rules set up in advance and if you did right, fast-track [vs case by case?] in TF all woes blamed on EPA; she agreed and tried to fix; streamline/ used  as excuse to gut (she feared?) Lindsey k attack, cLAimed thousands of plants not built b/c of regs; she challenaged him, for proof; LL rolled eyes, snicker aside to ppl next, she called him on it, DC moced along 155 PO suggests ignored.  some good ideas eg nat'l grid, regs for pipelines.

soc sec comm, picked by rove LL

faith base John J DiIulio jr, hijacked to toss $t evangelical base; unpredendent run by policy, mayberry Machiavellinas 170 quit no policy papers; sr staff siad facts don't matter, only PR/strategy 171 Robt Rubin had gotten into Sr staff mtg but PO failed
chill when clear PO was not going to play along

his GW memo leaked, gigot attack 172 reporters wd often call with out of ctx quote leaked by LL; not even subtle 174

aufhauser

PO violates central tenat of wa financial life: never use Engl lang to convey meaning " 209

bono spots mart PO; takes challenge to show what works on africa; put on robes; pablo -? big O (appliance store?); you're getting rep as truth teller, getting a cult 263  fired, refuses standard lie of family

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1st B2 cab mtg treas sec Paul o'Neil distributed paper for manhattan scale resposne to climate; no 2nd chance; 1st inaug was going to support; novack and indust upped pressure; day before inaug (peabody coal 100K$?) ctw affirmed a go; set off fight ; aides wrote 6pp to domestic pol guy john Bridgeland on effect on coal (6 sent on gw) O'N wrote f/u; ctw g8 sandbag; ebell said she was walking corpse but wanted to keep her so no one else worse cd get job 163 strategic ignorance pope

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Paul O'Neill served as Secretary of the Treasury in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_Administration" title="Bush Administration" class="mw-redirect">Bush Administration</a> until forced to resign in December, 2002.

O'Neill left "office with a track record that disappoints his many admirers in Corporate America, his detractors on the Republican Right, and his many critics in the Democratic Party. While George W. Bush has been the Teflon President, with none of the criticisms of his Administration sticking to him, complaints about White House economic policy stuck to O'Neill like Velcro."<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2002/nf2002126_5922.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2002/nf2002126_5922.htm" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

O'Neill was asked to leave by the White House, according to Bush Administration sources.<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/dec2002/pi2002126_0420.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/dec2002/pi2002126_0420.htm" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> He was replaced as Treasury Secretary by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Snow" title="John Snow">John Snow</a> by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> on December 6, 2002.

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According to the December 17, 2002 <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1217/p08s03-comv.html" class="external text" title="http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1217/p08s03-comv.html" rel="nofollow">Christian Science Monitor</a>,

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<dd>"Before he was forced to resign, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill broke the code that limits criticism to inside the White House only. He publicly voiced doubts about broad tax cuts and warned about looming deficits. Top economic adviser Larry Lindsey strayed when he told a newspaper that an <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> war could cost $200 billion. These were not the main reasons for their ousters, but the White House certainly was displeased with their comments."</dd>

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In a Foreign Policy In Focus <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/republicanrule/cabinet_body.html" class="external text" title="http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/republicanrule/cabinet_body.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a> cabinet members, Paul O'Neill was described as

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<dd>"a curious choice for treasury secretary." Coming "from an industrial company, not Wall Street, [O'Neill] received some praise from labor leaders. His views are hard to categorize: the New York Times calls him the 'wildcard' in the Bush cabinet. He might better be described as a capitalist with a long-term outlook of what ensures profits."</dd>

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The December 2000 issue of Tax-News.com described O'Neill as

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<dd>"an unconventional man, who has occasionally taken positions on global warming, energy taxes, education, Social Security and health care that seemed neither partisan nor Republican." It also reported that, in 1990, O'Neill "tried publicly to persuade President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Herbert_Walker_Bush" title="George Herbert Walker Bush">George Herbert Walker Bush</a> to put a $10 per barrel tax on the price of oil as a way of reducing energy use, protecting the environment, and helping close the budget deficit."</dd>

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In 1987, O'Neill was lured to Alcoa, by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Greenspan" title="Alan Greenspan">Alan Greenspan</a>, a member of the Alcoa board of directors, who had met O'Neill when they both worked in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gerald_R._Ford" title="Gerald R. Ford">Gerald R. Ford</a> administration. When Bush tapped O'Neill for Treasury, Greenspan praised Bush for attracting 'an exceptional and talented person.'"

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#Background">1 Background</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#Career_Highlights">1.1 Career Highlights</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#Education">1.2 Education</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#Affiliations">1.3 Affiliations</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#Other_Related_SourceWatch_Resources">2 Other Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#Books_about_Paul_O.27Neill">3 Books about Paul O'Neill</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#External_links">4 External links</a></li>

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<h2>Background</h2>

<h3>Career Highlights</h3>

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<li>Alcoa corporation, 1987-2001, President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Paper" title="International Paper">International Paper</a> corporation, 1977-1987, President (1985-1987)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget" class="mw-redirect">Office of Management and Budget</a>, 1967-1977, Deputy Director (1974-1977)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Veterans_Administration" title="U.S. Veterans Administration" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Veterans Administration</a>, 1961-1966.</li>

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<h3>Education</h3>

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<li>Bachelors of Arts, Fresno State College. Major in Economics.</li>

<li>Master of Public Administration, Indiana University.</li>

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<h3>Affiliations</h3>

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<li>Trustee, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a></li>

<li>Trustee, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_Excellence_in_Government" title="Council for Excellence in Government">Council for Excellence in Government</a></li>

<li>Member, Policy Committee, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Business_Roundtable" title="Business Roundtable">Business Roundtable</a></li>

<li>Board of directors, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Business_Council" title="Business Council">Business Council</a></li>

<li>Board of directors, the Conference Board</li>

<li>Trustee, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation">RAND Corporation</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></li>

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<h2>Other Related SourceWatch Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration_investigations" title="Bush administration investigations">Bush administration investigations</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration_scandals" title="Bush administration scandals">Bush administration scandals</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration_smear_campaigns" title="Bush administration smear campaigns">Bush administration smear campaigns</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intimigate" title="Intimigate">Intimigate</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_Lindsey" title="Lawrence Lindsey">Lawrence Lindsey</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weapons_of_mass_deception" title="Weapons of mass deception">weapons of mass deception</a></li>

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<h2>Books about Paul O'Neill</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.ronsuskind.com/newsite/" class="external text" title="http://www.ronsuskind.com/newsite/" rel="nofollow">Ron Suskind</a>, "The Price of Loyalty". Simon and Schuster, 2004. (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/0743255453" class="internal">ISBN 0743255453</a>)</li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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<li>Michael Wallace, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/dec2002/pi2002126_0420.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/dec2002/pi2002126_0420.htm" rel="nofollow">Bush's Shuffle: What's in the Cards</a>, BusinessWeek, December 6, 2003.</li>

<li>Richard S. Dunham and Rich Miller, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2002/nf2002126_5922.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2002/nf2002126_5922.htm" rel="nofollow">Nice Guys Finish Last. Ask Paul O'Neill.</a>, BusinessWeek, December 10, 2002.</li>

<li>Martin Crutsinger, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040109/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_o_neill_1" class="external text" title="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040109/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_o_neill_1" rel="nofollow">O'Neill Calls Bush a Disengaged President</a>, AP, January 9, 2004: "Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, pushed out of the administration for not being a team player, says President Bush was so disengaged during Cabinet meetings that he was like a 'blind man in a roomful of deaf people.'"</li>

<li><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0113-04.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0113-04.htm" rel="nofollow">Bush 'Outed' on Iraq</a>, Toronto Star Editorial, January 13, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0113-02.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0113-02.htm" rel="nofollow">The Awful Truth</a> by Paul Krugman, New York Times, January 13, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-05.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-05.htm" rel="nofollow">More Evidence of Mass Deception</a> by James O. Goldsborough, San Diego Union-Tribune.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-03.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-03.htm" rel="nofollow">A Rebel Republican</a> by Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian/UK, January 15, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_B._Reich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert B. Reich (page does not exist)">Robert B. Reich</a>, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0116-06.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0116-06.htm" rel="nofollow">O'Neill Has Done His Country a Favor</a>, Newsday, January 16, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0116-09.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0116-09.htm" rel="nofollow">Trust O'Neill, Not His Critics</a> , Madison Capital Times Editorial, January 16, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jason_Leopold" title="Jason Leopold">Jason Leopold</a>, <a href="http://www.liberalslant.com/jl011904.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.liberalslant.com/jl011904.htm" rel="nofollow">O'Neill's Claims Against Bush Supported By 1998 'War' Letters to Clinton Signed By Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz</a>, liberalslant.com, January 19, 2004.</li>

<li>Susanne Malveaux, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/06/oneill.cleared/" class="external text" title="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/06/oneill.cleared/" rel="nofollow">O'Neill cleared in use of classified documents. Probe faults Treasury Department for releasing secret papers</a>, CNN, February 6, 2004.</li>

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Paul Henry O'Neill (born December 4, 1935) served as the 72nd <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury">United States Secretary of the Treasury</a> for part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush's</a> first term. He was fired<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-60min-0">[1]</a> in December 2002 for his public disagreement with the administration and became a harsh critic. Prior to his term as Secretary of the Treasury, O'Neill was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_%28official%29" title="Chair (official)" class="mw-redirect">chairman</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO" title="CEO" class="mw-redirect">CEO</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>-based industrial giant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa" title="Alcoa">Alcoa</a> and chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation">RAND Corporation</a>.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#Community_service_career">3 Community service career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#Bush_Administration">4 Bush Administration</a></li>

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O'Neill was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Louis,Missouri" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>, although his "hometown" and current residence is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect">Pittsburgh</a>. He met his wife at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage_High_School" title="Anchorage High School" class="mw-redirect">Anchorage High School</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,Alaska" title="Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage, Alaska</a>, from which they both graduated in 1954. He lived on the military base there with his parents. He received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">Economics</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,Fresno" title="California State University, Fresno">California State University, Fresno</a>, a degree in economics from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Graduate_University" title="Claremont Graduate University">Claremont Graduate University</a> in 1961, and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Public_Administration" title="Master of Public Administration">Master of Public Administration</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University%28Bloomington%29" title="Indiana University (Bloomington)" class="mw-redirect">Indiana University</a>. O'Neill and his wife Nancy have four children, 12 grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.

He began his public service as a computer systems analyst with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Administration" title="Veterans Administration" class="mw-redirect">Veterans Administration</a>, where he served from 1961 to 1966. He joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="United States Office of Management and Budget" class="mw-redirect">United States Office of Management and Budget</a> in 1967, and was deputy director of OMB from 1974 to 1977.

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After President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a> lost the 1976 election, O'Neill took an executive job at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Paper" title="International Paper">International Paper</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. He was vice president of the company from 1977 to 1985 and president from 1985 to 1987.

In 1988, he was approached by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a>. O'Neill declined, but recommended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a> for the position. Bush then pursued O'Neill to chair an advisory group on education that included <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Alexander" title="Lamar Alexander">Lamar Alexander</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brock" title="Bill Brock">Bill Brock</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Riley" title="Richard Riley">Richard Riley</a>. Under O'Neill's leadership, the group recommended national standards and unified testing standards.

O'Neill was chairman and CEO of the Pittsburgh industrial giant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa" title="Alcoa">Alcoa</a> from 1987 to 1999, and retired as chairman at the end of 2000. His reign was extremely successful, as the company's revenues increased from $1.5 billion in 1987 to $23 billion in 2000 and O'Neill's personal fortune grew to $60 million.

In 1995, O'Neill was made chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation">RAND Corporation</a>.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Community service career">edit</a>] Community service career</h2>

In December 1997, O'Neill together with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karen_Wolk_Feinstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karen Wolk Feinstein (page does not exist)">Karen Wolk Feinstein</a>, President of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, founded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pittsburgh_Regional_Health_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (page does not exist)">Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative</a> (PRHI).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-1">[2]</a> They assembled a wide-ranging coalition of healthcare interests to begin to address the problems of healthcare, as a region. PRHI adapted the principles of the Toyota Production System into the "Perfecting Patient Care" system.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-2">[3]</a> Mr. O'Neill became a leader locally and nationally in addressing issues of patient safety and quality in healthcare.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

O'Neill was also pegged by Mayor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murphy_%28mayor%29" title="Tom Murphy (mayor)" class="mw-redirect">Tom Murphy</a> as a co-leader of Pittsburgh's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverlife_Task_Force" title="Riverlife Task Force">Riverlife Task Force</a>, along with the editor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette" title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a> at the time, John G. Craig Jr.

In 2005, O'Neill entered closed-door meetings with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pittsburgh_Gambling_Task_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pittsburgh Gambling Task Force (page does not exist)">Pittsburgh Gambling Task Force</a> to help them reach a "no-endorsement" stance on what casino to recommend. (News from June 1, 2006)[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]

O'Neill is also a member of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon" title="Carnegie Mellon" class="mw-redirect">Carnegie Mellon</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_College" title="Heinz College">Heinz College</a>'s Dean's Advisory Council.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

Since 2008 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Business_School" title="Columbia Business School">Columbia Business School</a>. Within the center he was named co-chair of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deming_Cup" title="The Deming Cup">The Deming Cup</a> initiative, an excellence award to recognize world leaders who have made outstanding contributions in the area of operational excellence and have fostered the culture of continuous improvement in an organization.

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O'Neill was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. O'Neill was an outspoken member of the administration, often saying things to the press that went against the administration's party line, and doing unusual things like taking a tour of Africa with singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a>.

A report commissioned in 2002 by O'Neill, while he was Treasury Secretary, suggested the United States faced future federal budget deficits of more than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a> 500 billion. The report also suggested that sharp <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States">tax</a> increases, massive spending cuts, or both would be unavoidable if the United States were to meet benefit promises to its future generations. The study estimated that closing the budget gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 percent across-the-board <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax" title="Income tax">income tax</a> increase. The Bush administration left the findings out of the 2004 annual budget report published in February 2003.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]

O'Neill's private feuds with Bush's tax cut policies and his push to further investigate alleged <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> funding from some American-allied countries, as well as his objection to the invasion of Iraq in the name of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror" class="mw-redirect">war on terror</a> — that he considered as nothing but a simple excuse for a war decided long before by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative" title="Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect">neoconservative</a> elements of the first Bush Administration — led to him being fired<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-60min-0">[1]</a> in 2002 and replaced with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W.Snow" title="John W. Snow">John W. Snow</a>.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Loyalty" title="The Price of Loyalty">The Price of Loyalty</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Suskind" title="Ron Suskind">Ron Suskind</a> interviewed O'Neill extensively about his tenure in the Bush Administration. He was also given access to a large amount of documentation. In 2004 he produced the book The Price of Loyalty, detailing O'Neill's tenure in the Bush Administration. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-5">[6]</a> The book describes many of the conflicts that O'Neill had with the Bush administration. For example, O'Neill was a great arguer and discusser of ideas; however when he approached Mr Cheney and attempted to engage in dialog, the Vice President would simply nod his head, and thank him for his ideas. The book also details O'Neills criticisms of some of Bush's economic policies. Bush appears somewhat unquestioning and uncurious, and the war in Iraq was planned from the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> meeting, soon after the administration took office, even though Bush had promised not to engage in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation-building" title="Nation-building">nation building</a> during his campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-6">[7]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

<a href="http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Ron_Suskind">http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Ron_Suskind</a>

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In a July 25, 2001 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Herald_Tribune" title="International Herald Tribune">International Herald Tribune</a> article, he shared a comment on the theory of an inevitable financial "contagion" in global <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_markets" title="Financial markets" class="mw-redirect">financial markets</a> and the theory that investors at the time would retreat from emerging markets because of their worries that the financial crises in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> may spread to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> and elsewhere. Mr. O'Neill said that this view was a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion" title="Fashion">fashion</a>" and that "we need to retire that fashion like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula_hoop" title="Hula hoop">hula hoop</a>." "With a magnifying glass, you couldn't find a connection between Turkey and Argentina, except maybe in people's minds", and that in a well-managed global system, investors would not pull back from loans in emerging markets simply because of such isolated troubles.

In an October 16, 2007 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2D71138F935A25753C1A9619C8B63" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Op Ed</a> published in the New York Times, he wrote of the reluctance among politicians to address comprehensive reform in the U.S. health care system. In the opinion, he suggested, among other things, requiring doctors and hospitals to report medical errors within 24 hours, as well as moving malpractice suits out of the civil courts and into a new, independent body. Health care reform, he argues, cannot continue to progress in a piecemeal fashion. Instead, it must take all aspects of the problem—insurance coverage, medical costs, quality of care and information technology—into simultaneous consideration.

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<li id="cite_note-60min-0">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-60min_0-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-60min_0-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq?</a> Rebecca Leung, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes">60 Minutes</a>, January 11, 2004</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-3">^</a> <a href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/page.cms?pageId=1063" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.modernhealthcare.com/page.cms?pageId=1063</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-4">^</a> <a href="http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/reunion/default.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/reunion/default.html</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-5">^</a> The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0743255453" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-7432-5545-3</a>) 2004</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/06/20/911pdb/index.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Ron Suskind, George W. Bush and the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB</a> Alex Koppelman, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com">Salon</a>, June 20, 2006</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28Secretary_of_the_Treasury%29#cite_ref-7">^</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1120959,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Bush decided to remove Saddam 'on day one'</a> Julian Borger, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>, January 12, 2004</li>

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