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Alan Greenspan totally disses Bush.

But the former Federal Reserve chief and staunch fiscal conservative has got nothing but good things to say about Clinton.

Of the presidents he worked with, Mr. Greenspan reserves his highest praise for Bill Clinton, whom he described in his book as a sponge for economic data who maintained “a consistent, disciplined focus on long-term economic growth.”

It was a presidency marred by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he writes, but he fondly describes his alliance with two of Mr. Clinton’s Treasury secretaries, Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers, in battling financial crises in Latin America and then Asia.

Fed’s Ex-Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role - New York Times