Lloyd Blankfein

of my caricatures in the New York Post.

And the headline, the label of it was the Daily Tabloid.

Right.

Think of all the jealous people who don't get as much attention as we did.

Well, anxiety.

I mean, again, this is a short talk.

It's longer.

But the world was so vengeful at the financial crisis, they were looking for someone to set an example.

And it wasn't going to be Bear Stearns and Lehman or

and Merrill that didn't exist anymore.

And it wasn't going to be the big banks that lost $60 billion.

They didn't look like... It was going to be Goldman that did relatively well in the thing.

It didn't lose money in the financial crisis, not because we knew what was going on, but because we ran a much more hedged, sensible book.

But people...

people, you know, went after us, which meant going after me.

And, and I knew what my role was, you know, I had to play, you know, my role.

And I actually, and I talk about this in the book, I'm not sure how it wasn't a secret, but I don't think people were as focused on it as I was.

But when I went through a long Senate hearing that lasted hours into midnight, and I was giving interviews after that till two in the morning after that, and taking a car back to New York and, and, um,

You know, that certainly wasn't fun, but again, I had the perspective.

I knew at the end of the day we did stuff right.