President Obama assembled his economic team looking for people to help with the “risk-averse business of actually governing,” Ron Suskind writes in his new book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, but his choices apparently made for a combustible West Wing and drew fire from at least one Democrat legislator.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, especially disliked then president-elect Obama’s choice of Tim Geithner for Treasury Secretary and Larry Summers to chair the National Economic Council. “You’ve picked the wrong people,” Suskind quotes Dorgan as telling Obama in December, 2008. “I don’t understand how you could do this. You’ve picked the wrong people!”