kevin   was not aware of this history between Ford and Goldman:

"(In 1956, Mr. Weinberg put together a plan that allowed Henry Ford II to take his company public -- raising $650 million and retaining 40 percent of a new class of voting stock in the process. It was a brilliant piece of financial engineering, and cemented what has become arguably the most personal relationship between a Wall Street firm and a public company.)"

the whole article is interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/busines...

cc: @C.Douglas