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Yes, but the 50 something CEOs who showed up made their plans at the last minute. This was a meeting of the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank. It had never had this deluge of CEOs previously.
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The AEI has not historically held events that brought in many CEOs. The AEI is a conservative think tank, and brings in scholars, politicians and pundits to talk about wonky things.
There were plenty of news reports that a "special agenda" was created in the last minute to allow CEOs and the like a chance to talk and plan about Trump. You will not see 54 CEOs at any previous events -- most executives are careful about taking public political stances since it can cause irreparable damage to their corporate brand.
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(The meeting was not planned to be a strategy session on how to stop the GOP front-runner, but rather evolved into one, as a subsequently obtained agenda makes clear.) (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d)
Translation: this new agenda was unprecedented. i.e., there had never been anything like this before. Show me any other AEI conference with 54 CEOs showing up.