2013 Articles

Memories of Bill Cary

Seligman, Joel

More than thirty years have passed since I completed the interviews for the first edition of The Transformation of Wall Street. My interview with Bill Cary on October 28th and 29th, 1980 was particularly memorable. I met with Bill in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he was being treated. Bill had already written a memoir of his years as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Politics and the Regulatory Agencies. Bill met with me to be helpful to my effort to draft a comprehensive history of the SEC.