Jeffrey Garten
speaker
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Jeffrey Garten’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The height of Nixon's
fame was really Nixon going to China.
Nixon, who had been a highly anti-communist public figure, going to China, that was a big, big move, and Nixon just delighted in shocking the audience.
He was not a nationalist in the way that Trump is.
In fact, one of the major things about the Nixon shock is that
It was designed to make an adjustment in Bretton Woods, but in no way was it designed to wreck Bretton Woods.
In fact, Nixon kept emphasizing that he believed in free trade, he believed in free flows of capital, that there had to be an adjustment so that the system could endure.
It was no question about the Nixon administration's wanting the spirit of Bretton Woods, the multilateralism, the economic liberalism.
They wanted all that to continue.
They just said there was an imbalance at the center.
Whereas Trump...
basically has totally disrupted the global economy.
And I don't think anybody can say that he has a vision for where it should go other than that the U.S.
should be the big beast in the jungle.
Well, I think what really disturbed other countries was
was that the strains on Bretton Woods were getting bigger and bigger.
And when the Nixon administration came in, Nixon had a policy of what was called at the time benign neglect.
They just didn't want to deal with it.
And this infuriated the Europeans and the Japanese because they at least wanted the US to be trying.
And so as these strains built up, and as Washington basically said to the rest of the world, in fact, the Secretary of the Treasury John Connolly said this, it's our dollar, but it's your problem.
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