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...Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative type," says NBC. In a none too subtle reference to Iacocca's Ellis Island scuffle with Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, Lido, asked about a shack in a stakeout scene, replies, "It's just a leftover from some developers who wanted to put up a hotel. We don't go for commercializing public land." Lido is ready to shoot off more than his mouth. "If it's any help," he tells...
Iacocca then raised a pertinent question about his firing: "Is there more here than meets the eye?" He suggested one possibility: his long-running feud with the National Park Service, which is under Hodel's Interior Department, over how to restore the 27-acre Ellis Island. "I will oppose any effort to commercialize this restoration project," he declared. "And that includes any plans to build a luxury hotel and conference center on the island." He charged that the Park Service wanted to finance this center "through the sale of tax shelters for the rich." While Hodel soft-pedaled the conference...
...Clearly, Hodel had become a hero within his own bureaucracy. But he had also inadvertently focused new attention on Iacocca as a potential presidential candidate. Although Iacocca votes independently, Democrats would love to claim him as their own. A Washington Post-ABC News poll last week showed him running only slightly behind New York Governor Mario Cuomo among Democrats for President, while both trailed Colorado Senator Gary Hart. But Iacocca insisted again last week that he has no presidential ambitions and that his resolve had been "put in concrete" by the week's events. He complained that politics "repulses...
Some reports had it that Chief of Staff Donald Regan was behind the ousting. His dislike of Iacocca stems from the controversies over Chrysler's billion-dollar bailout when Regan was Secretary of the Treasury. But the White House stoutly denied any involvement in Hodel's decision, and the Secretary agreed that he had swung the hatchet without help. When Regan learned about Hodel's decision, he said simply, "Fine, it's his call...
...impending firing as he flew to Houston to memorialize the astronauts killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. When the rather unseemly and unnecessary fiasco was announced last week, the White House moved quickly to distance itself from it. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "It's Hodel's deal. The President knew about it, but he didn't do anything because he didn't have to do anything...