Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
William E. Simon
Born: November 27, 1927
Died: June 3, 2000 (aged 72)
Bio: William Edward Simon was a businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.S. for three years, and a philanthropist. He became the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury on May 9, 1974, during the Nixon administration.
Known for:
- A Time for Truth (1978)
- A time for reflection
- A time for action (1980)
- Great Catholic Parishes: A Living Mosiac
- Reforming the income tax system (1981)