Though Rattner praised Obama’s thoughtful manner when he calmly executed his decisions, the car czar notes that the president seemed to have it in for the automakers from the beginning.
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At his first substantive sit-down with his advisers a week after the election, when the U.S. auto industry’s problems were broached, Obama quipped:
“Why can’t they make a Corolla?”
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