WASHINGTON REPORT

The Deck Has Been Shuffled, but the Cards Have Yet to be Dealt He did not want to take orders from Hamilton Jordan; he refused to fire two trusted aides; he thought the White House was going soft on the 1981-84 CAFE schedule, and he was not convinced that the administration shared his enthusiasm for his "re-invent the car" program, so Brock Adams quit his post as secretary of transportation. Although an unknown quantity to the auto industry when he took the reigns of DOT three years ago, Adams had become Detroit's public enemy number one for his tough, uncompromising stands on mandatory safety and fuel economy rules and for his Utopian push for a "quantum leap forward" in auto technology. Together with sidekick Joan Claybrook, who, despite rumors to the contrary,…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 1979

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