"He was incredibly energetic. You'd run into him in a hallway, and he would talk and talk," Katz says.
Summers' interests extended well beyond economics.
"Larry gets incredibly enthusiastic about an idea," Delong says. "It's not just economics--the meat and fish of what he does--he can be interested in any idea. He has a tremendous omnivorousness for ideas."
The Administration Insider
"I worked very closely with Summers, not only because of his central role in the administration, but because he was the most driving intellectual force in the Clinton administration," says Michael Waldman, a chief Clinton speechwriter.
Summers quickly became an administration insider, the only Cabinet secretary invited to the senior staff meetings every morning.
"He was someone who was a real source of ideas and perspectives far beyond the narrowness of his field," Waldman says. "We [at the speechwriting office] wrote two months worth of speeches off of my notes from one meeting with Larry."
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