"Lee iacocca he passed this week at ninety four this is the man who is responsible for turning around chrysler motors in gillette on demand and also the man who is responsible for the invention of these or the marketing of if you will the design and marketing the ford mustang all the way back in the nineteen sixties a he was a legend in detroit ten truly a legend and in detroit and he was a person who not only turned around the automobile industry in the nineteen eighties but really began i think they realization in a political sense of what what's going on with industrial base in america the manufacturing base in america talk a lot about working people some democrats tried to recruit him to run for president in nineteen eighty eight and they were using rhetoric even at that time we were most worried about japan at that time rather than china but using a lot of rhetoric that i think we would recognize from the trump era at any rate coca never actually got into politics an death nonetheless he did embody american auto industry at its zenith at kind of the peak of his a chrysler rescue popularity he also spearheaded the renovation of of ellis island and i think a lead as a child of italian immigrants a lead all americans to sort of celebrate are immigrant heritage yes he did indeed is his father had come from san marco italy saint louis nikola and he came through ellis island as did my grandfather"