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President Barack Obama is meeting with another batch of CEOs today to marshal support for his proposal to reduce the deficit, his third such session in the past two weeks.

But this time there’s a twist: He invited a banker. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein gets to join the club.

The first meeting had attracted a bit of a hullabaloo among Wall Street watchers because the President, while looking for help solving the fiscal crisis, turned to corporate titans but no bankers. With his infamous “fat cat” reference and the perception of a distrust of Wall Street, the slight appeared pointed to some.

But now Obama has let in Blankfein, despite Goldman Sachs abandoning him in the election. That makes one banker out of  26 CEOs that have publicly met with the president.

[WALL STREET JOURNAL]

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