Joe Biden To Ford Executive: 'Thank You For Saving Our Ass'
The Huffington Post | By
Mollie Reilly
Posted: 01/16/2014 2:58 pm EST
Vice President Joe Biden offered a top Ford Motor Company executive some blunt
praise during a stop in Detroit,
Mich. on Thursday.
"Thank you for saving our
ass," Biden said to Bill Ford Jr., the auto giant's executive chairman,
according to a pool report.
While it's unclear what Biden was
referring to, pool reporter David Shepardson of the Detroit News notes that
Ford did not seek government bailout funds after the 2008 financial crisis. Shepardson could not make out Ford's
response to Biden.
Biden's remark came while the vice
president toured the North American International Auto Show, which is set to
open to the public on Saturday.
The Associated Press offered
details on Biden's visit:
Biden delivered a speech and
toured the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which showcases vehicles and hosts
visitors from around the world. He promised an "American century in
manufacturing" after the bankruptcies and near-industry meltdown about
five years ago.
"We bet on American
ingenuity, we bet on you and we won," Biden told the audience, flanked by
a half-dozen General Motors, Ford and Chrysler vehicles.
Biden, the son of a car dealer and
proud owner of a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, said the industry revival
also means good things for Detroit,
which is undergoing the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy — four years
after General Motors and Chrysler emerged from their own restructurings.
Joe Biden
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is the vice president for the Barack
Obama administration, and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Note: David M.
Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. was a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a director at the Ford Motor Company.
John
L. Thornton is a director at the Ford
Motor Company, and the chair for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Robert S. McNamara
was the president of the Ford Motor
Company, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank), the Committee for Economic Development, the
Hudson Institute (think tank), the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Irvine O.
Hockaday Jr. was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a director at the Ford Motor Company.
Gerald Greenwald
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and
was the president of Ford of Venezuela for the Ford Motor Company.
Ellen
R. Marram is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and a director at the Ford Motor Company.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP for the CGI Group Inc, and a
VP at the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
the chairman for the President's Export
Council, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Alan
R. Mulally was the EVP for the Boeing
Company, is a member of the President's
Export Council, and the president & CEO for the Ford Motor Company.
Marie-Josee Kravis is a trustee at the Hudson Institute (think tank), was a
director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
a director at the Ford Motor Company,
is a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. is a director at the Ford Motor
Company, a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the ambassador to China
for the Barack Obama administration,
and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the
president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Steven L. Rattner
was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the counselor
to the secretary for the Presidential
Task Force on the Auto Industry.
Presidential
Task Force on the Auto Industry is a task force for the Barack Obama administration, and advised
on auto bailouts for the 2008-2010
financial bailout.
Lawrence H. Summers was the co-head for
the Presidential Task Force on the Auto
Industry, the National Economic Council chairman for the Barack Obama administration, a trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
David M.
Rubenstein is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
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