On the morning of September 11, 2001, Howard Lutnick brought his five-year-old son to school for his first kindergarten teacher and led to the CEO of Wall Street worked a little too late in his World Trade Center Office in New York City.
This delay saved Lutnick’s life, which is now the US trade secretary and has become a leading personality in the current trade war with Canada.
But on September 11, each of his 658 investment Bank Cantor Fitzgerald, who were in the office this morning, including Lutnick’s younger brother Gary, was killed as 1 WTC, the North Tower, deliberately hit the kidnapped American Airlines flight 11.
Two days later, a Lutnick affected by grief appeared on television, which was interviewed by the then journalist from ABC news, Connie Chung. During the interview, Lutnick collapsed several times and described how he went from hospital to hospital and searched for employees that have not yet been taken into account.
“I don’t go to a hospital or get someone to go to a hospital and say: ‘Find Gary Lutnick for me’,” he said. “I go with employee lists and say: ‘Here’ my list, here is everyone who I got to find someone on this list. I don’t care who they are. ‘”
Suffered personal, professional losses
After the show, Lutnick performed other media appearances, especially at CNN with Larry King, and became a national personality that only one of those who had suffered both personal and professional losses.
His image then stands with the one Canadian who now see the confident Pitchman for the tariffs of the US President Donald Trump against Canadian exports to the United States.
Since Trump’s announcement of 25 percent for all goods from Canada and Mexico in the USA on February 1, Lutnick – whose responsibility as a trading secretary contains the impression of trade restrictions – has closed the round of the US media networks, because Canada is not enough enough to stop fentinel, failures, but also interest.
(Trump announced on Thursday that he held in some Canadian goods until April 2.)
But before Lutnick became a Minister of Commerce, he was a pronounced supporter of Trump’s tariff plan and as part of Trump’s inner circle, co-chair of his transition team.
When he was appointed trading secretary, Lutnick resigned as CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, where, according to his website, he led the company for four decades and converted according to the terrorist attacks on September 11th.
At that time, the company had offices on the five best floors of the 110-story north tower. When the aircraft flew in the soil 93 to 99 of the tower at 8:46 a.m., the people who worked above were missing.
“We lost every person in our office”
In September 11, the Lutnick company lost more employees than any other company more than two thirds of its workforce and more than a third of the total total of the total of the total of North Tower.
“We lost every person in our office … all brokers, all dealers, all sellers at work. We all lost them,” he said days later during an interview with Larry King from CNN.
Lutnick said when he was in his son’s school that morning, rang and separated again and again.
“I later learned that it was my brother Gary, who tried to say goodbye,” he said in a social media post on September 11th and recalled the attacks.
He also discovered that his brother had called her sister and told her that he wouldn’t make it and the smoke came in and things were bad, “he told the king sobbing.
“And he called and said goodbye and that he loved her and that she told me that he loved me.”
Lutnick said when he finally arrived in the building, he observed how people fled and “grab and shake and shake” and asked which floor they were on and hoped to find someone from the floors 101 to 105, where Cantor Fitzgerald’s Offices was, he said.
“I knew when I got an employee when a person came down from this floor that I know that there had to be others,” he said.
Lutnick contacted someone who fled the 91st floor out of the building, but nothing more. He then had to run when the Second World Trade Center Tower began to collapse after he was hit by another plane.
He said he tried to be the huge cloud of smoke ahead, but was put down under a truck. He was completely covered with dust and went for hours and finally called his wife, he said.
Faced with backlit for cutting out salary bricks
This emotional and convincing interview with Chung conducted too widespread sympathy because it sent the public to see the CEO of a Wall Street company.
But this sympathy was short -lived. Lutnick was soon confronted in preliminary contempt when he found that just a few days after the attacks, he had cut off the salary checks of those employees who were missing and suspected at the time.
This counter reaction included criticism from some of the widows of these employees. Chung made a follow -up story, this time interviewed some of the widows who were angry with Lutnick’s salary.
“Don’t expect these women to cry after Lutnick,” said Chung. “Days after the tragedy, he did something that they cannot forgive or forget.”
At the time, Lutnick admitted that he received inquiries from Witwen and asked about the salary for her husbands.
“You call me and you say: ‘How is it that you can’t pay for my salary? Why can’t you pay my husband’s salary? Other companies pay their salary (dead and missing employee), why can’t you,” he told CNNS König.
“But you see, I lost all in the company, so I can’t pay your salary. You think we’re doing something wrong. I can’t pay your salaries,” said Lutnick and cried again.
Nevertheless, he defended this decision to cut the salary checks and insisted that he had no choice.
“I needed my bankers to know that I had control,” said Lutnick of the New York Times in an interview in 2011. “That I was not sentimental and was no less motivated or motivated to survive my business.”
He has made his promise to offer the families 25 percent of the company for the next five years – a total of $ 180 million US dollars and for health care for the next 10 years.
Shortly after the speech by US President Donald Trump, Katie Simpson from CBC came to CBC Minister Howard Lutnick, who suggested that tariffs against Canada could still be negotiated.
In the meantime, some family members who had criticized Lutnick turned their opinion and praised his efforts.
Lutnick was able to rebuild and grow Cantor Fitzgerald and become a billionaire. But the attacks of September 11 and those who are lost in his company still remain close to the surface.
Only recently during his hearing in front of the US Senate trade committee, Lutnick spoke when he remembered the events of that day and the events killed.
“I still can’t say without becoming emotional, sorry,” he said.
