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To: wideawake

Obviously, you aare hung up on Trump putting his name on his building and properties. Perhaps you’ve never heard of Hilton Hotels, Sheraton, and all the rest which carry family names as well as Hersheys, Reeses, and ad infinitum products we enjoy every day. Are the owners hedonistic?


139 posted on 12/13/2015 10:01:08 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1
Hershey?

Milton Hershey, back before you could get tax breaks for doing charitable works, built a boarding school for orphans and impoverished children that has a campus that rivals many liberal arts colleges. It has provided scholarships for thousands of children for decades. He also built and funded a research hospital. It hasn't stopped his firm from employing thousands of people or from providing a separate endowment for the pensions of Pennsylvania state employees.

The two can't be compared.

And Trump's dad gave $1mm to a larger fund to build the NYC Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial wasn't Donald's idea, his dad's donation was a small part of the larger endowment, Donald was the board member his dad deputized to represent the Trump Organization for the memorial planning commission, and he only showed up to two of the commission meetings and blew off more than 20 others.

He clearly didn't take it seriously at all - until it became political cover for him for his dad buying him out of actual service in Vietnam.

146 posted on 12/13/2015 10:21:04 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Mollypitcher1
Oh, and your claim that no one else would give the Memorial a thought is insulting nonsense.

Almost 2000 New Yorkers gave their lives in Vietnam, and your claim that only Donald Trump - a coward who pled bone spurs as an excuse to dodge the draft - was the only person who thought of the memorial is ridiculous.

Ed Koch, the mayor of NYC and a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, started city planning on the Memorial at least three years before any Trump gave a dollar or joined a committee.

147 posted on 12/13/2015 10:40:04 AM PST by wideawake
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