Sec And The City New.york Quotes

Currently the SEC headquarters are in Washington, D.C., and Washington, D.C., is the place where you’ll find a lot of politicians, but not very many qualified finance professionals. As New York is the world’s largest financial center and Boston is the world’s fourth largest financial center, moving the SEC to New York City or elsewhere in the New York-New England corridor makes a lot of sense.

Because LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson owned the station, we were told we’d be given a private tour of the White House. LBJ’s press secretary, a former UT student and KTBC radio guy, Bill Moyers, met us outside the West Wing to apologize. Neither the president nor he was going to be able to spend any real time with us. Instead, he turned us over to LBJ’s trusted aide, Walter Jenkins. That same day, we toured FBI headquarters. J. Edgar Hoover still reigned over the office, but his number two man, Cartha Libby, led us around the facility. The real highlight of all of this was a complete surprise. I was given a number to call at CBS in New York City. I found a pay phone and dialed the number. At first I thought that the traffic noise and the general hubbub that is the streets of Manhattan were playing tricks with me. The female voice on the end of the line said, “Walter Cronkite’s office, how may I help you?