Subject: monday dinner/note to Hunter & Kathleen
From: "Clemons, Steve" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 14:16:18 +0000

Dear Kathleen & Hunter:

On this coming Monday evening, 4 June, at George Washington's home, Mt. Vernon, I have found myself all of a sudden with two tables at a dinner where the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize will be presented to what a selection committee considers the best history book on America's "founding era."  This is the largest book prize focused on books of the colonial era.

I would love to have you join as my guests if you are interested and available.  It's quite something to have dinner, drinks, music, and great conversation on the lawn in front of Mt. Vernon, which will be open with unique tours to our guests that night.

My guests so far for the evening include:

Scott Simon, National Public Radio
Carline Simon
Helene Cooper, New York Times
Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair
Edward Luce, Financial Times
Amb. Hattie Babbit, former Deputy Administrator, US AID
Amb. Thomas Pickering, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Garance Franke-Ruta, Senior Editor/Politics, The Atlantic
Andrew Oros, Washington College
Michael Hirsh, National Journal
Vitessa del Prete, Department of State
Steve Clemons, The Atlantic

I realize that you are most likely already booked — but the folks joining all said yes yesterday — so hopefully you too may find this fun and worth an evening.

Would love to have you join if you are able.

All best, Steve