Why General Motors?

Why does General Motors exist: why do we have GM, and is there any reason why it should continue? Purporting to provide general objectives and principles of operation, a company’s mission statement often tries to answer the question, “Why does this company exist?” and so I looked for the GM mission statement. I was unable to find one on its web site (possibly incompetence on my part).

Tocqueville and Schlesinger

I was looking at the history of people's ideas about the USA's imperial presidency and, as often happens when looking at early US history, people quoted Thomas Jefferson.