Come to do the business i want to get good to have you with us and done the c. E. O. Details such as stepping down for more than a decade the man with the bushy gray walrus most of the comic us through highs and lows from an unhappy merger with chrysler to record sales and a rejuvenated brand so heres a look now back at some of the defining moments of the era. Ditto at such it took the helm a time guy in 2006 his mission to clean up the mess left behind by his predecessor york in schlump he had called the merger with chrysler a match made in heaven but it turned pretty hellish for the stuttgart based carmaker losses during the chrysler years mounted into the billions. Such it was viewed as the right man at the right time for a fresh start after all hed been through many a crisis with tyler and his many years with the Company Including in the mid ninetys the spectacularly failed trial known as the moose test set got to work out a minus the important components that made significant impr
I think its the glass, though, that most of us will be thinking about. I remember as Bishop Barron was saying, just being in that building and letting that color wash over you, and its transporting. Its the same at charts. Its the same at bouveaux. This is an antechamber, if you will, to another world. These cathedrals were built at a time there was a great millenialist expectation of the return of christ and glory, and people wanted to build nice reception halls, if you will, for the returning lord of history. So they put the best that was in them into that, and i also thought earlier today of why is it that Kenneth Clarke, and what i think is arguably the greatest Television Documentary series ever, civilization, begins at notre dame. The first visual image in those ten hours of programs is Kenneth Clarkes standing where those firefighters are today, with notre dame behind him saying, im not sure how to define civilization, but i know im looking at it. So what notre dame represents i
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