Mr. Summers, Obama’s economic adviser early in his presidency, once invited Warren to dinner when she was chairwoman of the congressional panel overseeing TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program. They met at the Bombay Club, a quiet, classy Indian restaurant near the White House.
As the evening wore on, Warren describes Summers guzzling Diet Coke, and a table “strewn with bits of food and spilled sauces.” Then she relays his advice to her: “I had a choice. I could be an insider or an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them.”
And this: “Insiders understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders. I had been warned.”
