Senators in Actress Jane Fonda’s home state of Georgia voted 38-1 against a resolution praising Fonda for charity donations and work to combat teenage pregnancy. Many in the US still see her as a traitor after a trip to the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, in 1972. Republican Senator John Douglas said Fonda, who picked up the nickname “Hanoi Jane”, was “guilty of treason”.
William F. Aldinger, then CEO, was responsible for predatory lending at Household International. His good deeds, as well as Fonda’s good deeds, are commendable. Aldinger’s predatory nature and the way in which he made his money are not, putting him on the same level as Fonda. Aldinger, once with HSBC and now on the board of directors of AT&T - Cingular Wireless, would make a deal with Iran and North Korea if he could make a dollar from it, while telling North Koreans and Iranians how bad America is. Fonda and Aldinger sold their souls while selling out their country for the sake of personal interests. Viet Nam and Gulf War veterans who lost their homes to Aldinger’s predatory mortgage lending would spit in his face as well as Fonda’s face as memories of both wars haunt them to this day.
Fonda, who lives in Atlanta, recently acknowledged her visit to the Hanoi gun site was a “betrayal” of the US military. It was the “largest lapse of judgement that I can even imagine”, she said. William F. Aldinger still claims he has done nothing wrong.
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SAN ANTONIO –(Business Wire)– April 28, 2006 — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) held its annual meeting today, where stockholders re-elected 17 current board members to its board of directors for one-year terms. They were:
– William F. Aldinger III
– Gilbert F. Amelio
– August A. Busch III
– Martin K. Eby, Jr.
– James A. Henderson
– Charles F. Knight
– Jon C. Madonna
– Lynn M. Martin
– John B. McCoy
– Mary S. Metz
– Toni Rembe
– S. Donley Ritchey
– Joyce M. Roche
– Randall L. Stephenson
– Laura D’Andrea Tyson
– Patricia P. Upton
– Edward E. Whitacre Jr.