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November 15, 2005
An excerpt from the Senate confirmation hearings for Federal Reserve Chairman nominee Ben S. Bernanke
SENATOR: Mr. Bernanke, thank you for being here. The committee appreciates you appearing before us today.
BERNANKE: Thank you, senator. I appreciate the opportunity to be here today and answer any questions the committee might have.
SENATOR: I’d like to begin by asking you about a recent report in the Washington Post concerning how, as a child, you came in 26th in the national spelling bee. Is that report correct?
BERNANKE: It is correct, senator.
SENATOR: The word you misspelled was "edelweiss" -- is that correct?
BERNANKE: Yes it is.
SENATOR: The article quotes your mother as saying that you had not seen the movie, The Sound of Music, and thus were unfamiliar with the word. Is that correct?
BERNANKE: Yes it is, senator.
SENATOR: Have you since seen the movie?
BERNANKE: I have.
SENATOR: Remember that part when they’re hiding in the convent and Rolfe -- formerly Liesl’s beau but now a junior Nazi -- catches them and literally blows the whistle?
BERNANKE: Yes, I do.
SENATOR: And then they escape and the Nazis try to follow them but the nuns have sabotaged their cars?
BERNANKE: Yes.
SENATOR: I like that part.
BERNANKE: I agree with you, senator. That’s a good part.
SENATOR: Thank you. I have nothing further at this time.
Posted by teb at November 15, 2005 09:55 AM