Not everybody loved Lee Iacocca, the automotive legend who died July 2. Before saving Chrysler in the 1980s, he lost his job at Ford Motor Company following years of conflict with a C-suite rival.
The way Iacocca tells the story in his autobiography, chairman Henry Ford II called him into his office shortly before 3 p.m. on July 13, 1978, and fired him. “Sometimes you just don’t like somebody,” the Ford family heir explained to his departing president.
