Subject: HOBY Albert Schweitzer Award - Beau
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hallie Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Ashley Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:08:34 -0400

Hallie, Hunter, Ashely-

Yesterday I spoke to Rhett Wilson, a Board member of the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation (HOBY).  He was passed on to me by Josh because HOBY would like to posthumously present its annual Albert Schweitzer Award to Beau at their annual awards dinner in Beverly Hills in November.

Rhett, would like to know that this is acceptable to the family.  All that would be required is for someone to go out to Beverly Hills on November 4th to accept the award (it is at the Beverly Hills Hilton).  He had no preference on who accepted the award but I assume it would at least be one or some combination of the three of you (I believe the honoree’s family receives 4 tickets to the event).  He very specifically said he wasn’t asking for or expecting the VP to attend.

There will be 200-300 people in attendance and the award would be presented by a member of their Board or their Executive Director.

If you don’t know Hoby or the Award here’s a little info from Rhett:

Past recipients include Presidents Ford and Reagan, Secretaries Albright and Clinton, as well as business and media leaders such as Larry King and Doug Parker.  

The dinner is a benefit for Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership - a program that trains 10,000 young leaders annually across the U.S. and several foreign countries.  It is a non profit 501c3 that has been operating since 1958.

There is a Delaware chapter of the organization as well.

Alex Mackler and I did some initial vetting and the organization is well respected and there don’t seem to be any issues with them or with the award.  There are some impressive past awardees.  There is no financial commitment required on anyone’s part either.  Just need to show up and collect the award and make some remarks.

Rhett would like an answer on whether it is acceptable to make Beau their honoree in the next week or 10 day if possible.  I don’t think you need to figure out who would go out there right now.  If you are inclined to accept I would suggest that we just get back to them, say yes, and tell them you don’t know who would be attending yet.

Thoughts?

Best,

Eric

Eric D. Schwerin
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