Bailout Role Elevates U.S. Official.

For months, as Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. traveled to Capitol Hill to testify about the unfolding financial crisis, he has been shadowed by a man with a shaved head and intense eyes who many assumed was a Secret Service agent. But much of the political and financial world was surprised to learn this week that the man was Neel T. Kashkari, 35, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker whom Mr. Paulson has tapped to oversee the $700 billion bailout effort as interim assistant secretary for financial stability. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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