General Motors - Obama Presidency Oral History Back General Motors Index / Organizations Transcripts Lisa Jackson ...people. And they were next door to a General Motors facility, and PCBs had become prevalen... ...of something Reynolds or Alco or GM did.” But as a parent, that feeling o... Steven Chu ...vehicles. By that time, remember, General Motors [Company] and Chrysler [LLC] had gon... ...out. I wasn't in charge of bailing out GM [General Motors Company] and Chrysler... ...I wasn't in charge of bailing out GM [ General Motors Company] and Chrysler, but I was wit... David Axelrod ...government should intervene to assist GM [General Motors Company] and Chrysler... ...should intervene to assist GM [ General Motors Company] and Chrysler, how do yo... ...should provide financial backing to GM and Chrysler. In our previous session... ...they thought that with our help, that General Motors would survive; that Chrysler might not... ...we should go ahead full measure with General Motors . We should give Chrysler thirty day... ...talking about socialism and calling General Motors , “Government Motors.” Although onc... ...never heard Republicans referring to General Motors that way. Again, in fact, Mitt Romne... ...wrote a piece at the time saying, “Let GM go bankrupt.” That piece became a par... Show more... Gregory Craig ...economic decisions having to do with General Motors , having to do with the stimulu... Austan Goolsbee ...president about, Will it work to rescue GM and Chrysler, or does rescuing Chrysle... ...Do we want to come up with money for GM and Chrysler, for just GM, what are w... ...money for GM and Chrysler, for just GM , what are we going to do? But th... ...the American-made auto manufacturers. GM 's market share had fallen on... ...year we're going to have an increase of General Motors market share every year for the nex... ...we decide pretty quickly that General Motors has got to be saved. It's sufficientl... ...be saved. It's sufficiently big that if General Motors goes under, the implications—spillove... ...of Chrysler to Ford and GM , then the job implications of Chrysle... ...because it's actually going to help GM and Chrysler [read: Ford] . And the... ...in Congress that they want Chrysler and GM to be bailed out. And to an economist... ...decision to bail out both Chrysler and GM . And that is, after the fact in 2012... Show more... Alan Bersin ...to this rethink is, the president of General Motors called President Bush and said if w... Patrick Gaspard ...I navigated it well, but our friends at General Motors said it was really helpful to them... David Simas ...anything else for the Big Three [ General Motors , Chrysler, Ford]. And the qualitativ... Paul Ryan ...Delphi plants, a Chrysler plant, and a GM [General Motors] plant in my hometown... ...plants, a Chrysler plant, and a GM [ General Motors ] plant in my hometown. At our home a... ...the time, two of my four neighbors were GM workers, and one was a husband an... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism