(DAILY MAIL) -- The former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Barack Obama claimed that the President once gave her dating advice in 2006 when they were on a return trip to Chicago from Iowa.

In an interview with The Times, Alyssa Mastromonaco shared how the at-the-time Illinois Senator once threatened to text one of Senator Tom Harkin's staffers on her behalf when he saw him checking her out.

'Obama turned to me and said, "Look, he was really into you. And if you don't email him, I will.",' she writes in her book about her time working with Obama called Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?.

And the up-state New York native doesn't have an idea of what the email would have entailed.

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