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[[Image:LarrySummers.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
[[Image:LarrySummers.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
Lawrence Henry ("Larry") Summers (b. 1954) is an economist who served as the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] in the final year and a half of the Clinton administration. From there he was selected to be the 27th President of Harvard University, considered to be the top position in academia. Lawrence Summers currently is the Director of the [[White House]]'s [[National Economic Council]] (NEC) for President [[Barack Obama]].
Lawrence Henry ("Larry") Summers (b. 1954) is an economist who served as the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] in the final year and a half of the Clinton administration. From there he was selected to be the 27th President of Harvard University, considered to be the top position in academia. Lawrence Summers currently is the Director of the [[White House]]'s [[National Economic Council]] (NEC) for President [[Barack Obama]]. U.S. Federal Judge [[Richard Posner]] called him one of America's top public intellectuals.<ref>[http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/publicintellect.htm] "Data for tables in Chapter 5 of Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline" where Posner talks about the data he used for his book ''Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline''.</ref><ref>[http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/TABLE%20II.pdf] Table II, which is Posner's data for 607 public intellectuals. A PDF search of "Summers" will show he is on Posner's list.</ref>
He served as President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, when he was forced to resign for merely suggesting that the wide disparities between men and women in science, math and engineering may be due to innate differences in their aptitude or preference for those fields. His mere suggestion of this, delivered in a speech to academics, caused an uproar by [[liberals]] that led to his ouster.
He served as President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, when he was forced to resign for merely suggesting that the wide disparities between men and women in science, math and engineering may be due to innate differences in their aptitude or preference for those fields. His mere suggestion of this, delivered in a speech to academics, caused an uproar by [[liberals]] that led to his ouster.