Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“On September 11, 2001, the nominee for secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, took his son Kyle to his first day of kindergarten; which, he told the Senate, ‘is why I am with you today.’ The detour made him late for work at the company of which he is CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading financial service firm then located on top floors of the World Trade Center. His brother Gary ‘and 657 of my other friends and colleagues at Cantor Fitzgerald’ lost their lives that day. Lutnick asked the surviving employees, about a thousand people, to help him rebuild the company and help the 658 families who had lost a loved one. Over the next five years, they all donated 25 percent of their salaries to those families, about $180 million. … I don’t know whether he will do a good job as Secretary of Commerce. … I do suspect he’ll be a better head of that department than the last one.” (02/04/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/02/04/darkest-day-survived/