Cohn and Summers Talk Trump, China and Machismo by a Hamptons Pool

  • Crowd wearing ‘Hampton chic’ can’t ask about David Solomon
  • The ex-presidents of Goldman and Harvard go ‘for the jugular’
Gary CohnPhotographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
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Before former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn began a poolside chat in the Hamptons on Thursday with former Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers, their host cracked a joke about the Wall Street veteran.

“If you happen to see him leave early, that means they’re probably calling him because he’s a candidate to be the future CEO of Goldman Sachs,” said Steven Starker, who worked there before co-founding the brokerage BTIG. “There’s going to be no David Solomon questions tonight. And, yes, he was invited. He chose not to come.”