Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm has emerged as the key behind-the-scenes economics/Wall Street guy for John McCain and is being touted as the treasury secretary in waiting. Since 2002, Gramm has been an executive with the U.S. operations of UBS, the giant Swiss Bank.
Someone close to me use to refer to him as “Ol’ Turkey Neck.” And everytime I hear about him that’s the first thing that pops in my mind. I’m also surprised he never became president of TAMU – seems like it would have been a win-win.