RE: 2016

From:gordon.giffin@dentons.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-01-04 15:15 Subject: RE: 2016

Thanks-hopefully Canada isn’t as sexy as some dinners. [http://logo.us.dentons.com/logo.png] Gordon D. Giffin Partner D +1 404 527 4020 | US Internal 74020 gordon.giffin@dentons.com<mailto:gordon.giffin@dentons.com> Bio<http://www.dentons.com/ch.aspx?email=gordon.giffin@dentons.com&action=biolink> | Website<http://www.dentons.com> Assistant: Moira French +1 404 527 4051 | Courtney Bean +1 202 496 7882 | Lynn Gilleo +1 212 905 8311 Dentons US LLP 303 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 5300, Atlanta, GA 30308 Salans FMC SNR Denton McKenna Long Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and affiliates. This email may be confidential and protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, distribution and use are prohibited; please notify us immediately and delete this copy from your system. Please see dentons.com<http://www.dentons.com> for Legal Notices. Always tough but let me see what I can do. On Monday, January 4, 2016, Giffin, Gordon <gordon.giffin@dentons.com<mailto:gordon.giffin@dentons.com>> wrote: First-as we begin this historic year I want to congratulate you, Robby, Dennis and the rest of the campaign team that has designed and built a comprehensive enterprise that will undoubtedly support the election of HRC as our President later this year. I stand ready to take on any assignment that you send my way this year to assist. I will continue to work on fundraising and plan to assist Charlie and Capricia in convention planning as discussed, but am fully prepared to help in any other fashion that would be useful. Second, I would like to ask a personal favor of you- on March 10 there will be a State Dinner honoring the Prime Minister of Canada. It would mean a lot to me to be invited to that dinner. Frankly, I do not have close ties to the WH staff and am hoping that you might intercede on my behalf in the right spot to advocate for me. The last time there was a State Dinner was 1997 and I was invited-before I was named as ambassador. As an aside, I grew up in Canada (came to US for university), my Dad was born in Canada, and I still spend and enormous amount of time there. I would hope that on the merits it would make sense. Thanks for considering this. 2016 will without doubt be a roller coaster with peaks and valleys, however I look forward to celebrating an historic election in November. All the best. Gordon D Giffin [http://logo.us.dentons.com/logo.png] Gordon D. Giffin Partner D +1 404 527 4020<tel:+1%20404%20527%204020> | US Internal 74020 gordon.giffin@dentons.com<javascript:;><mailto:gordon.giffin@dentons.com<javascript:;>> Bio<http://www.dentons.com/ch.aspx?email=gordon.giffin@dentons.com&action=biolink> | Website<http://www.dentons.com/> Assistant: Moira French +1 404 527 4051<tel:+1%20404%20527%204051>| Courtney Bean +1 202 496 7882<tel:+1%20202%20496%207882> | Lynn Gilleo +1 212 905 8311<tel:+1%20212%20905%208311> Dentons US LLP 303 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 5300, Atlanta, GA 30308<x-apple-data-detectors://5/1> Salans FMC SNR Denton McKenna Long Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and affiliates. This email may be confidential and protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, distribution and use are prohibited; please notify us immediately and delete this copy from your system. Please see dentons.com<http://dentons.com><http://www.dentons.com/> for Legal Notices.