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...Bill the boss has the support of his family, which controls 40% of the company's voting shares, worth about $1.2 billion. If there is friction, it may lie in the rivalry between Ford and his cousin Edsel, the son of Henry II, who lost out in the race for the chairman's job after a lengthy competition. Edsel, who is chairman of the Salvation Army, has said he backs Bill. Edsel's wife Cynthia says, "It's frustrating that they talk about this 'thing' with Edsel because it couldn't be farther from the truth. The family totally supports...
...squeezing a tea bag between his fingers as he talks, Bill Ford can sound like just another overstressed working parent. He leans forward in his shirtsleeves and launches into an impassioned conversation about kids, the struggle to balance work and family, how to plan vacations with four children's conflicting school schedules and the exhausting demands of Saturdays, running from basketball games to other activities from dawn until dusk. "It's insane, isn't it?" he says. But despite Ford's light touch, there is a sense of destiny in the air these days at his company. "This...
...Bill Ford has an even bigger legacy in mind. He wants Ford Motor to lead in alternative-fuel technologies, proving his belief that you can make profits and do good at the same time. If he succeeds--and the odds aren't necessarily in his favor--Ford Motor could help save the U.S.'s manufacturing base. "Bill could go down as a truly historic American figure, like his great-grandfather," says Brinkley, "or he could just be a guy who watched over the collapse of a family company...
...Ford certainly doesn't talk like a guy who is about to become history's roadkill. "My goal is to fight Toyota and everybody else and come out on top," he says. Eventually Ford hopes to engage Washington--and the country--in a broad dialogue about such urgent issues as energy policy, health care and the future of manufacturing. "Sure I'd like to play a role," he says. "But it doesn't do much good for me to be out trying to solve national and world issues if we're not fixing ourselves." That, of course, would...
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