Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae's Former CEO, Is Doing Awesome
And Thank You Very Much for Asking
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In the cherry-paneled library in his six-bedroom house in Greenwich, Conn., with his arms stretched high above his head, Daniel Mudd is gripping an imaginary shovel. He’s telling a story about how he once woke up in Lebanon, in 1983, with another U.S. Marine holding a real one just like that, about to bring it down on him. The soldier’s name was Pfautz.
“And he brings it down—on the wall,” Mudd recalls. “He says, ‘Sir, there was a scorpion crawling down the wall toward you.’ And I said, ‘Pfautz, if I had been quicker on the draw I would have shot you four times, before you killed the scorpion.’ ”