Mr. Bush should summon business leaders and economic experts to show that he will do what is necessary to restore that confidence and help the nation's financial center get back on its feet.
Into the breach stepped his father, who summoned a business associate, Gypsy Rose Lee.
In 1971, Lewis F. Powell Jr., a Republican corporate lawyer soon to be appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon, summoned the business community to the cause with his famous memorandum, "Attack on American Free Enterprise System".
Instead it was a continuation of the Ambassador summoning business.
On his first day back from a swing through Eastern Europe and Russia, Mr. Bush summoned small-business leaders to the White House to showcase the first stimulus package, signed into law in February.
The Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, firing a new shot in an old interstate war, began putting radio advertisements on the air in California this week summoning burdened businesses his way.
Cable had been summoned back by the business select committee after a scathing report by the National Audit Office found the government had massively undervalued Royal Mail in its desperation to sell off the 500-year-old postal service.
The more than 20 business leaders summoned to the Kremlin today included the heads of Gazprom, the natural gas monopoly, and of several major Russian oil companies as well as top bankers.
In 2002, he said, when he used his power as minister to summon Norwegian big business — "I was their largest shareholder, so they came," he recalled — 94 percent of board members were men.
The industry has been summoned to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to discuss the issues, he added.
