But of all of them I've felt particularly privileged to work with my long-time dear friend and colleague, and your great secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin, who will be remembered as the president said so well, as one of the most successful and influential secretaries of the treasury in all American history.
Robert Reich : I do want to talk tonight about an issue that is very near and dear and of concern to me and it is basically about higher education in the public sphere in the United States.