Warsh Will Need His Vaunted People Skills to Smooth Return to Fed He’s Scorned

In the summer of 2002, 32-year-old Kevin Warsh found himself at the center of a political fight over some of the era’s most complex financial legislation.

Warsh was just a junior White House staffer. But at the climactic moment of closed-door negotiations on Capitol Hill, he was the one playing point man for the Bush administration – and under forensic cross-examination by Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes, co-author of the bill to clean up corporate reporting after the Enron scandal.