George H.W. Bush
Mon, August 24, 1998
A&E Interview
"I can tell you, I've not said this publicly before, Alan Greenspan disappointed me. I reappointed him and he disappointed me in the way that they begrudgingly lowered the rates. I think if the interest rates had been lowered more dramatically, that I would have been reelected president."
As reported by Marketplace.
See Also: Political Pressure, Federal Reserve Source: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/1998/08/25_mpp.html