NBC’s Andrea Mitchell says with her hubby, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, it was indeed love at first sight.
“We met over the federal budget,” the network anchor gushed during a rare joint appearance with her husband Tuesday night at the Newseum. Greenspan and Mitchell chose the romcom “The Philadelphia Story,” for their movie for the museum’s Reel Journalism movie series, which naturally led to questions about their own romance.
Mitchell told the story.
They first talked when Mitchell was looking for a “real economist” to explain to her a Reagan-era budget. “The deficit was much smaller, but it was still an issue,” Mitchell explained. A White House source suggested she call up Greenspan, who worked on Wall Street at the time .
“So I just called him and said, ‘Can we talk about the budget?’ It was not exactly a very sexy come on there,” Mitchell said. “But it worked, but it worked.”
“It took a number of years,” she continued. “It’s a big budget.”
Greenspan acknowledged that he remembered that phone call. “When you get a phone call from Andrea Mitchell and her sonorous voice … [how could you] not remember it?” he said.
“This is why I married him,” she interjected.
They chatted on the phone for almost a year, then went out to dinner in New York. This month the couple celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary.
So budget talk was how Greenspan wooed over women? “Works all the time,” Greenspan said, smiling.
