Politics
He served as Chairman of The Business Council in 1981 and 1982. From 1982 to 1989, Wriston was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board, and in June 2004 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, by President George W. Bush. He was twice offered the job of Secretary of the Treasury but turned down the offers. One report is that Wriston declined the offers because these were not made to him personally by the-then President. Wriston also would have had to take a substantial pay cut had he accepted the government position.
In 1987, the Manhattan Institute of Policy Research initiated a lecture series in honor of Mr. Wriston, and in 2004 the Idea Channel organized a seven-part series of interviews with him as well.
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