"The final decision to relocate the Annual Meeting was taken in November when Schwab arrived back in New York with the first Concorde plane to land again at Kennedy Airport after 9/11. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani welcomed him at JFK and brought him to Ground Zero. Smoke still rose from the rubble and debris. Giuliani then received Schwab as his last official visitor in the Mayor’s mansion before handing over his office to successor Michael Bloomberg, who in turn received Schwab as his first official visitor. During a luncheon at the New York Stock Exchange, Schwab announced the decision to relocate the Annual Meeting to thunderous applause from the city’s leaders."

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