Obama vows to meet with automakers; misspeaks on Bush meeting:
"At a speech in Flint today, the Illinois senator promised to meet with auto executives as a candidate and as president.
'Unlike George Bush, I won't wait until the sixth year of my presidency to sit down with the automakers. I'll meet with them during my campaign, and I'll meet with them as president to talk about how we're going to build the cars of the future right here in Michigan,' Obama said in his speech.
Bush drew heavy criticism for delaying a meeting with automakers for six months in 2006, but he actually met with the top officials of Detroit's Big Three automakers in April 2003 in Dearborn.
The President met with General Motors Corp. chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner, then-Ford Motor Co. chairman and CEO Bill Ford Jr. and then Chrysler Group president and CEO Dieter Zetsche on April 28, 2003 for half an hour at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Dearborn.
The White House released a photo of the 2003 meeting that remains on the White House Web site. The three executives spoke to reporters after the meeting, which drew extensive media coverage."
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