Thread by @Lee8772

THREAD: An Open Letter to the CEO’s of:
Blackstone Group, Kindred Healthcare, Humana Inc, United Parcel Service, Brown Forman Corp, Elliott Management, Goldman Sachs, Citicorp Inc., Peabody Energy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Atria Group, FMR Corp., …/1

General Electric, Ashland Inc., Eli Lil & Corp., KKR & Co., FedEx Corp., UBS AG, Apollo Global Management and others.
In the interest of full disclosure, my name is Lee Caudle, and I was born three days after Donald Trump in 1946. The similarity ends there. Both my families.../2

date to the American Revolution and my Father’s family the Lee’s have served in every war and/or military conflict since the American Revolution. Our Lee family helped settle the Indian Territory now Oklahoma.
My Father was a decorated WWI hero, a member of the 167th …/3

...Ambulance Company of the famed 42nd Rainbow Division and one of the first Americans to go to France. Trump’s father was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and was arrested in New York City. My oldest brother was in the Navy during WWII and fought in the Pacific. Trump’s father../4

was a Nazi sympathizer and as such endorsed the extermination of over 6,000,000 Jewish people.
Now Trump is having a love affair with Kim Jung Un of North Korea; my cousin, a doctor, ran a mash unit during the Korean War. My husband and cousins served in Vietnam and I worked../5

at 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt where they sent the most seriously wounded soldiers from Vietnam. Donald Trump was a draft dodger and said the worst thing he had to worry about during Vietnam was getting venereal diseases.
Both of my sons have served in the military and../6

my oldest grandson served in Afghanistan. My youngest grandson leaves for Parris Island on September 3rd. Our family is a composite of Caucasian, Hispanic, Native American, African and more. Needless to say, we have a vested interest in the United States. We have also invested./7

a lot of blood.
You, as CEO’s of corporations, know that the base of your success is the far and wide ranging diversity of the American culture. You also recognize that since the US dollar is no longer based on the gold standard its value is now based on the good faith and ../8

credit of the United States. You understand the reason we made it through The Great Recession was because the Federal Reserve supported by President Obama and Secretary Timothy Geithner made the decision to expand the Fed’s balance sheet and pump billions of dollars into the../9

economy to keep us from going into a full depression. Your individual wealth will disappear if the United States fails and it can happen.
As supporters of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party, and possibly the NRA you are endorsing the destruction of our ../10

country; the very country that has allowed you to be so successful.
Our country has survived because we are a resilient society, proud of our United States of America that is made up of immigrants from all walks of life. Americans are good people. A former President said it../11

best.
“Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in./12

honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.The world knows we do know how to save it. We – even we here – hold the power, and bear the responsibility in giving freedom to../13

the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just – a way which, if.../14

followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.” President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Address to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862. Over a million people died in the Civil War to ensure we have hope & since more than a million have died to ensure we retain that hope../15

It is readily apparent that the current President, his administration, Mitch McConnell, the GOP Senate & the Republican Party are in over their heads at running our Democracy If reports are accurate they are being blackmailed by the NRA and Russia.
The world is in danger.../16

We ask that you stand up and help our Union survive.
S. Lee Caudle
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Retired
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