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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.116.6 with SMTP id t6cs234849ybm; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.128.20 with SMTP id a20mr9047783and.74.1220451125261; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <fromanm@citi.com> Received: from mail.citigroup.com (mail1.ssmb.com [199.67.179.103]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 29si11966082wrl.9.2008.09.03.07.12.04; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of fromanm@citi.com designates 199.67.179.103 as permitted sender) client-ip=199.67.179.103; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of fromanm@citi.com designates 199.67.179.103 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=fromanm@citi.com Received: from imbarc-ny01.ny.ssmb.com (imbarc-ny01-1 [162.124.186.138]) by imbaspam-ny03.ssmb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/SSMB_EXT/ev: 21928 $) with ESMTP id m83EC4jt012761 for <john.podesta@gmail.com>; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:12:04 GMT Received: from mailhub-nyc4-1.ny.ssmb.com (mailhub-nyc4-1.ny.ssmb.com [162.124.152.39]) by imbarc-ny01.ny.ssmb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/SSMB_QQQ_IN/1.1) with ESMTP id m83EBl9k021544 for <john.podesta@gmail.com>; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:11:47 GMT Received: from exnjsm05.nam.nsroot.net (EXNJSM05.nam.nsroot.net [169.193.40.39]) by mailhub-nyc4-1.ny.ssmb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/CG_HUB) with ESMTP id m83EBkGp021824 for <john.podesta@gmail.com>; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:11:46 GMT Received: from exnjmb57.nam.nsroot.net ([169.193.42.64]) by exnjsm05.nam.nsroot.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:11:46 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6619.12 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:11:45 -0400 Message-ID: <0DA00BFE3116BB4DB975587B3511F4E00557BF29@EXNJMB57.nam.nsroot.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Index: AckNqpcCu38iFxLmTUCMINHPD4ORYQAIyFwA References: <0DA00BFE3116BB4DB975587B3511F4E00557BF0F@EXNJMB57.nam.nsroot.net> <8dd172e0809030251o3dfaf68cga37919d13396c943@mail.gmail.com> From: "Froman, Michael B " <fromanm@citi.com> To: "John Podesta" <john.podesta@gmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Sep 2008 14:11:46.0083 (UTC) FILETIME=[FFAEA730:01C90DCE] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 199.67.177.41 Thanks. Current head of Presidential Personnel top notch search person, former Heidrick Vice Chairman, horrified at what she found when she got there. They've put an immense amount of work into pulling together materials on all of the political appointments, the process, the system, a model organization, etc. =20 The representative from WH Counsel who was there was unclear as to when they could give us those materials. We pressed to get them after McCain is nominated. If it gets bogged down, that might be a topic for follow up with Josh. They are also still looking into whether GSA could reimburse the winner for the system, buy it to be installed at Presidential Personnel, etc. No determination yet. Their recommendation was that we and McCain's camp get together, agree on a system and some to GSA with a proposal that the three parties work on it together. I don't want to slow down our process to engage in a protracted, multiparty negotiation, but we should probably give that a run. Do you know who your counterpart is in the McCain camp? In the meantime, we have the former CIO of Russell Reynolds and a technology resource from the DNC working up a requirements document and laying out the options (e.g., building off the campaign system, buying/licensing an off-the-shelf system such as Taleo, etc.). On clearances, they said the FBI was all geared up to start the process of clearing potential transition staff now, but wanted to get a sense of order of magnitude. Our sense was that the transition leadership (you), the national security folks and some of the personnel folks who need clearances in order to review the FBI checks on vetted candidates. Make sense? See you Sunday. I will do more work on possible slates to talk about as well. -----Original Message----- From: John Podesta [mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:51 AM To: Froman, Michael B [CAI] Subject: Re: 2:00 in Chicago. No location yet. Guess is the house. On 9/2/08, Froman, Michael B <fromanm@citi.com> wrote: > > Had a great meeting with Presidential Personnel, but lots of issues to > discuss coming out of that. I'll call you to follow up. > > Please let me know as you learn the details of the meeting on Sunday. > > > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com