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Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"

bloomberg.com | Amy Thomson and Katie Merx | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business


No car experience is necessary to take a top spot at the bankrupt icon of Detroit's automobile industry. Believe it or not, the newly appointed ch...

Edward Whitacre Jr.: New GM Chairman Is Former AT&T CEO

Yahoo! Finance | Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business


UPDATE: Edward Whitacre was the son of a railroad engineer, who grew up trapping frogs and shooting rabbits, according to Business Week. DETROIT (A...