Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission
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- March, 1984: Ed Koch held a sparsely attended luncheon at Trump’s Grand Hyatt Hotel to discuss plans to raise funds for the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. “‘Never have we had a war where we have treated our veterans so shabbily,’ Mayor Koch said yesterday, urging support of a $1 million fund drive by the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. A person's stand on the war was ‘irrelevant, irrelevant,’ he told a skimpily attended luncheon in the Grand Hyatt Hotel run by the real-estate figures Maurice Paprin and Donald Trump. What was important is that, in caring for the Americans who fought in it, ‘we have not done what we should,’ the Mayor said. Only 25 people were at the meeting, but Mr. Koch said he expected a huge crowd at the big fund-raising event, a Red, White and Blue Gala on Memorial Day. Half the money will be used for a monument, the rest for a veterans' job program.” (New York Times, March 8, 1984)
