A James Stewart column in the New York Times about the possibility that some other business executive — Bob Iger? Howard Schultz? Marc Benioff? Sheryl Sandberg? — might be inspired by Donald Trump to run for president includes this line about Ms. Sandberg:
She has worked in politics before, as an assistant to the former Treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers...
It made me smile to see the Times description of what Professor Summers was doing at Treasury not as government, economics, or international finance, but "politics."