Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by Uber: OBAMA v. BIG BUSINESS: Triple play this week -- HALPERIN/Heilemann ‘only answer’ to ‘savior’ for GOP convention – WHAT HILLARY SAID when she took Laura Bush through White House -- B’DAY: Josh Holmes, Bill McQuillen
From: "Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 07:24:15 -0600

04/07/2016 09:22 AM EDT

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; [email-masked]) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; [email-masked])

Good Thursday morning, and happy home opener to the Nats, who face Marlins at 4:05 p.m.

"WHITE KNIGHT": On "With All Due Respect," Mark Halperin was bullish on Trump's New York primary prospects: "Barring some change, I don't care what kind of 'Trump slump' there might be, ... the story in two weeks is going to be TRUMP ROMP." He and John Heilemann agreed who the GOP "savior" would be at a contested convention.

Halperin: "To me, it's Ryan. ... Ryan IS the answer. ... There's nobody else. .... Ryan has to say he's not interested, just like he said he wasn't interested in Speaker."

Heilemann: "Paul Ryan is the obvious answer and I think the LIKELY answer ... He's the ONLY answer. ... He could have a fresh start without having to be totally green."

TOP TWEETS -- @adrianchen: "Kasich is that last guy at the house party who you're trying to put in an Uber but he's all 'It's cool I'll just sleep on the couch!'" ... Erica Ordern @eorden: "Cruz will tour a matzah bakery in Brooklyn tomorrow. #NYPrimary!!!"

JUST POSTED - "White House, allies prep liberals for lame-duck Garland fight: They are hoping the issue will be a winner at the polls," by Isaac Dovere, with Seung-Min Kim: "Traditionally, liberals don't vote on court issues. Conservatives do. But the West Wing and its supporters are working hard to change that, in the hopes of racking up wins in November that they can say are a mandate for putting Garland on the bench before Obama leaves office - not to mention mobilizing Democratic voters to help take back the Senate.

"First up: Obama's town hall with law students [this afternoon] at the University of Chicago, recently tacked on to a longer planned fundraising swing in California. ... Valerie Jarrett and her staff have stepped up White House meetings with liberal activist groups to keep them engaged. ... The key for Democrats and their allies is to turn the fight into a base-stirring metaphor for all the opposition he's faced from Republicans over the years." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee6e26fa99d3d58772893896451f9ef838abbbad7f7ec4947e

OBAMA IN FULL - USA Today banner, "Feds muzzling mergers: Friction builds between business, government," by Nathan Bomey: "This week alone, the Treasury Department cratered pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's $160 billion tax inversion deal with Allergan, and the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to block No. 1 oilfield services firm Halliburton's $34 billion acquisition of No. 3 firm Baker Hughes.

"Meanwhile, the [FTC] has challenged the merger of Staples and Office Depot, and officials are closely scrutinizing a litany of other deals, including the health care insurance merger of Aetna and Humana, the insurance merger of Anthem and Cigna, and beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisition of SABMiller.Taken together, these cases suggest a new measure of confidence on behalf of the Obama administration." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee8f0e6b08c3dfce23d0ce02042394fb61a6ae7bfd30c3c5d8

--WashPost A1, below fold, "White House Debrief: Obama moves to agitate big business," by Juliet Eilperin and Jim Tankersley: "Obama seems to have shed any hesitation to take actions that critics might dub 'anti-business,' a move that harkens back to his early campaign rhetoric and also fits the current mood of a populist American electorate. The shift is evident in three controversial decisions, ... including a change in tax policy which the president, in an unusual step, promoted himself from the podium in the White House briefing room." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee90517bf36d5bd3af66a440779671457a0086e7e58238f83b

--WSJ A1, at fold, "New Tax Rules [on Inversion Deals] Are Met With Protest," by Richard Rubin and Jonathan Rockoff: "While both sides are pushing 'tax reform,' ... Obama wants to focus on business taxes only ... Republicans want to address individual and business taxes together." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beeddddf5a9263e8a1269d0ec00179d343a0b2b5180143b4a5e

OFF HIS BUCKET LIST -- "Obama to make first appearance on 'Fox News Sunday' since becoming president," by Alex Weprin: "Chris Wallace will conduct the interview from the University of Chicago. ...Obama has been interviewed by Fox News before (and by Chris Wallace in 2009 and 2013)." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee8abde65b0a77bd2f8a97413c929baa3f40b3a72908ff1b77

TOP-ED - JEFFREY IMMELT in WashPost, "GE CEO: Bernie Sanders says we're 'destroying the moral fabric' of America. He's wrong": "We're in the business of building real things and generating real growth." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee4e65055df4ff58c96fe2aa0e04c38a061d05584529e96ce5

JAMIE DIMON 50-page letter to JPMorgan Chase shareholders - Bloomberg's Hugh Son: "Financial regulations need to be revisited and subjected to a comprehensive review -- but not in the current political climate, Dimon said. ... 'We are not looking to rewrite or to start over at all -- just some modifications that make sense' ... [R]ules governing mortgage originations, servicing and securitization should be simplified, helping to 'create a more active mortgage market at a lower cost to customers.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beececcce4e79df5dbc8cfea20c2ffe4be1191e93267c59ce9d ... See the letter, with graphics (p. 4 of annual report) http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee7a0e8d596ac3e27863082351dc2f368b889fe8c8a0e45229

DAILY DONALD -- WashPost A4, "Trump hiring 'seasoned operatives' ahead of convention," by Jenna Johnson and Karen Tumulty: "A larger staff could limit Trump's ability to micromanage ... Trump sometimes seems ill-prepared for the dozens of interviews he does ... Edward J. Rollins said Lewandowski's challenge will be to expand the campaign's circle and make peace with party figures rather than antagonize them. Lewandowski's penchant for traveling with Trump ... may need calibration." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee6c4b668101f496387c873522448196d25ca7c0eeaea81ce8

SNEAK PEEK - TIME's new cover, "Likeable Enough? Not so fast, Donald. Ted Cruz has a plan," by Michael Scherer http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee8dd4fbba7f260bb3116e0bcec82ec45803bb0b8f7619c3a6 ... Interview highlights http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beeb130b2c66c1cf76ee74bfeace7bc74e0d059b338fd93859b 

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SHOTS FIRED -- "Sanders: Clinton's not qualified to be president," by Hanna Trudo and Nick Gass: "'Now the other day, I think, Secretary Clinton appeared to be getting a little bit nervous,' he began [last night in Philadelphia]. 'We have won, we have won seven out of eight of the recent primaries and caucuses. And she has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote unquote, not qualified to be president.' 'Well let me, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don't believe that she is qualified if she is, if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee01ba774f163bf0f6b90e0270e2bcfff28470b57d885ff737 

TWITTER REACTION -- @danpfeiffer: "There are a lot of pretty effective arguments one could make Clinton, but unqualified is not one of them" ... @davidplouffe: "It's hard when you have no path to victory. But you still shouldn't say certain things. Things that aren't true. When the stakes are so high" ... @brianefallon: "Facing long odds, Sanders is inventing grievances & nonexistent paths to the nomination to rile his supporters & keep fundraising spigot on" ... @JesseFFerguson: "ICYMI: Hillary Clinton was First Lady for 8 years, Senator for 8 years, Secretary of State for 4 years and other stuff. cc: @BernieSanders."

TRANSITIONS FOR FIRST LADIES - WashPost Style lead, "What were they thinking? When the West Wing gets a new occupant, so does the East Wing. These White House transitions haven't always gone so smoothly" - Adapted from a book out next Tuesday from Kate Andersen Brower (author of the bestselling "The Residence"), "First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies": "Laura went on her walkabout with Hillary Clinton a week before Christmas 2000. Accompanied by her daughter Chelsea, then 20, the outgoing first lady reminisced about eight years of Clinton parties as they roamed the ground-floor rooms. She also took Laura to the third-floor music room, complete with speakers and
 the president's saxophone collection. ...

"Hillary confided to Laura that she regretted taking an office in the West Wing ... and she advised her successor not to let the responsibilities of her new role cloud her decision-making: Hillary recounted how she'd regretted turning down an invitation for her and Chelsea to attend the ballet in New York City with Jackie Kennedy, who would pass away a few months later.

"As they stood in the first lady's dressing room, Hillary told Laura, 'Your mother-in-law stood right here and told me that from this window you can see straight down into the Rose Garden and also over to the Oval Office.' Eight years later, when Michelle Obama came for her first tour of the White House, Laura showed her the exact same spot." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beeec502c90306357980b102547d72e01d690af278c5e75ae50 ... The cover http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee2a1b1c444bdf1e092db938eb73f4d5157f2668a54d994685 ... $21.21 Amazon preorder http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beefb782956e279c125193b18e4be5bce342523760f45768649

MONEY HONEYS - WSJ A1, above fold, "Unions' Super PAC Stalls," by Brody Mullins and Melanie Trottman: "A fight among labor unions over who would control a proposed $50 million super PAC has slowed the creation, ... in part over disputes about who would receive credit for the work done ... Convincing union members and their families to vote for Democratic candidates could be particularly challenging this year if the Republican presidential nominee is businessman Donald Trump, who has drawn support from working-class white men and women, many of whom are union members." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee5bbbb82e78e97867470a22750d9795113bed5f1da53fd604

WHAT CLEVELAND IS READING -- "Huntington Bank buys early naming rights to Cleveland Convention Center before RNC," by Cleveland Plain Dealer's Teresa Dixon Murray: "The convention center will become the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland before the focus of the nation and perhaps the world is directed at the convention center in mid-July, when the city hosts the RNC. ... Huntington has agreed to pay FirstMerit $500,000 to assume its agreement with Cuyahoga County. The agreement calls for Huntington to pay more than $400,000 annually to the county for the convention center 20-year naming rights." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beec8ed0625babfd100fa38c0617f790655248c87dccbf344f9

SPOTTED: Ed Gillespie, Gordon Smith, Fox News' Leland Vittert, and Jose Andres all on an American Airlines flight yesterday morning from DCA to Augusta, Georgia, to the Masters ... Sen. Tom Carper (D-De.) wearing a black/charcoal suit in Union Station checking train times yesterday afternoon. Our tipster: "Very Bidenesque of him."

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SUBJECT LINE DU JOUR -- From "Ted Cruz (CONFIDENTIAL BRIEF) <[email-masked]>" with the subject line, "Do not Forward": "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY -- DO NOT FORWARD TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS -- CONFIDENTIAL BRIEF -- FROM THE PERSONAL DESK OF TED CRUZ ... Please don't forward this to any Trump supporters... Here's why ... My campaign is going to BEAT Donald Trump, and they won't want to hear this."

DRIP, DRIP --"Comey pledges 'no outside influence' on Clinton email case," by Josh Gerstein: "FBI Director James Comey said ... at Kenyon College in Ohio. 'I've stayed close to that investigation to ensure that it's done that way. That we have the resources, the technology, the people and that there's no outside influence.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee694c69a0962c1a5f77cc5360181539a02374addf313bd3e1

POWER PLAYBOOKERS -- MICHAEL FROMAN named #44 to Fortune's "World Greatest Leaders" list:"Froman traces his friendship with President Obama to their days on the Harvard Law Review. That pedigree helped the trade ambassador win the argument within the White House for chasing the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest regional trade pact in history. Capitol Hill has proved a tougher sell, but Froman's pitch job helped overcome Democratic resistance last year and kept the package inching forward. Now populist crosswinds from the presidential campaign threaten the deal anew." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee1770efb9618fbcbea2ee68f84835fd8a7cfd7eb63d5aa419

--"[Aaron] Schock hires messaging guru Luntz's firm," by Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer: "Schock paid Luntz Global Partners $10,000 in February ... Luntz Global Partners is doing 'communications consulting' for the former congressman ... The pair previously worked together in 2013 ... But Schock's public relations message is being handled by McGuire Woods, the Richmond, Virginia-based law firm that is also representing him in legal proceedings." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee260aca318bbab1136c69bfcefc0c2d56dd20c25b8d0c9e04 

CLEANING UP CONGRESS -- "Shuster on defense in reelection over lobbyist girlfriend," by Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer: "Art Halvorson ... says his Republican primary opponent, Rep. Bill Shuster, is part of the D.C. 'cartel' ... Shuster [says] his romantic relationship with Shelley Rubino, one of the top lobbyists for Airlines for America, is completely above board. ... But as Shuster fights to fend off Halvorson and win a ninth term in Congress, his relationship with Rubino has become an issue ahead of the April 26 primary. Earlier this week, Shuster appeared to take a step away from Rubino and recast her work before the powerful panel, saying she doesn't lobby his committee." 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee56deef5c0810e3907d33a5f4c168158e9b41e43b334053a0

FIRST LOOK -- NEW DNC video, "Everything's Unfair: Donald Trump's Trumper-tantrum" -- Supercut video of Trump saying "unfair" 12 times in 21 seconds http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee40b7b4fd2a7a8ce3f2722fc180f6cdcab4f70bac4acde292

INSTAGRAM DU JOUR -- @stevecase: "Enjoyed my visit to @huffpostlive. Took a break on @ariannahuff's bed. Great place to read#ThirdWaveBook & #SleepRevolution, both released today!" [One of the pillows on Arianna's bed reads: "Sleep your way to the top"] http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee09e5b9467edb2d725e1b35e1cc0dd8f859692aed58c1a216

HOT VIDEO -- "Florida Governor Rick Scott Can't Even Get a Cup of Coffee at a Local Starbucks," by Gawker's Jeff Ihaza: "[F]ootage surfaced of Florida governor Rick Scott, at a Starbucks in Gainesville, getting yelled at by a customer-local woman Cara Jennings, who is none to happy with the governor." 1-min. video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beebcf91c87ea745b85635e3df7eb9c20e72356ecfba6fae454

--"Valerie Jarrett to Katie Couric: Justice Dept. looking into impact of MS and NC anti-LGBT laws": "Couric spoke with Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett about [Wednesday's] conference at the White House about breaking down gender stereotypes in media and toys, election 2016, Mississippi's passing of anti-LGBT laws and more." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee820b9831407ff8b254ba2842205eef2d1abe37e421ef15d1

MONEY HONEYS -- "'Wizard of Wall Street' Joins Republican Clean-Energy Push," by Bloomberg's Zach Mider: "Julian Robertson, a top Republican donor and legendary hedge-fund manager ... recently gave $500,000 to a new super-PAC known as ClearPath Action, which advocates for nuclear and hydroelectric power and cleaner coal and natural gas technology. ... ClearPath is the brainchild of Jay Faison, a North Carolina entrepreneur and Republican." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee5584953bce86787d7568eb60ad808699c5cdbc38490ddcc4

REMEMBERING ALMA BROWN - The Root's Breanna Edwards: "Alma Arrington Brown, the wife of the late U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, as well as a philanthropist with a special focus on children and underserved communities, died at the age of 76 on [Sunday]-exactly 20 years to the day of her husband's death. ... Alma Brown died in Washington ... after battling a brief illness. ... [H]er daughter, Tracey Brown James, said[:] ... 'Her extensive career transcended many fields as an educator, community leader, political activist, banker and broadcaster and paved the way for so many to lead public-service-oriented lives.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee41c2ac74606b1fa78b275f1c1277d0912d7594542ee8c9c3

VALLEY TALK -- "Secrets of the Yahoo Sale 'Book' Reveal Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search," by Re/code's Kara Swisher: "According to some pages from the 'book' that Yahoo bankers have given out to prospective buyers, the financial situation at the Silicon Valley Internet giant is becoming increasingly dire. ... [A] series of sellers I have interviewed said that ... the Yahoo book ... shows a company in what has been a serious free fall, which has been apparent to many for a while now and from Yahoo's continuing public downgrading of its prospects." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee6f56ff34999cf5ce50b0951c592865273890e22450fa9d7a

--"Zuck tries Facebook Live ... doesn't go well," by CNBC's Everett Rosenfeld: "After a few seconds of talking into a camera, Zuckerberg stood up and the video stream went down. On his page, the video link still said it was 'live,' but continued to play an 8-second clip of a gray couch with some chatter in the background. ... [T]he video page indicated at the time that 118,000 people were concurrently watching, so there was certainly interest in the stream. After a few minutes, the 'live' video was removed from his page entirely, and some users were unable to even load Zuckerberg's page." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee59e92e9ab82c6fbb466c65c419ed4a768f9f725737e5c47a

MEDIAWATCH -- JOHN WALCOTT to Reuters - McCLATCHY's famous Iraq WMD trio now reunited at one place (Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Walcott) - Reuters D.C. bureau chief Kevin Krolicki and Kevin Drawbraugh emails the staff: "Walcott is joining the Reuters Washington bureau as foreign affairs and national security editor. ... From 2011 to 2015, he was team leader for national security and foreign affairs at Bloomberg. Prior to that, he was Washington bureau chief for McClatchy and for Knight Ridder. ... The Knight Ridder and McClatchy Washington bureaus under John's leadership won acclaim for their early critical coverage of the Bush administration's allegations about Iraq's weapons of
 mass destruction and ties to international terrorism."

TRANSITIONS -- Vidhya Murugesan has joined DKC as a Vice President to expand the company's media and content division. Vidhya was most recently the Director of Communications at Bloomberg Politics, and is also a veteran of TIME Inc. and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. She joins the firm's New York office.

 --C-SPAN promotions: "Richard Weinstein is promoted to Vice President of Digital Media ... responsible for strategy and operations related to C-SPAN's online presence, including c-span.org and the C-SPAN Archives. ... Ben O'Connell is promoted to Managing Editor, responsible for day-to-day editorial operations. Prof. Robert X Browning of Purdue University is named Executive Director of the C-SPAN Archives, which is based in West Lafayette, Indiana." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee00b99252cfe8f85a533c4f9910ecb39398c3cf07183a2a05

OUT AND ABOUT -- Around 150 friends and D.C. political/media types gathered last night at the Kalorama home of Katherine and David Bradley to celebrate New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer's new book, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right". The party was co-hosted by Leslie Dach, senior advisor to HHS, and his wife Mary Dickie. $18.14 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee56f1767be9a54842a5bf8a5cc38476f18060f559c88150cf Her last New Yorker story http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee63fee7ec6236e443d53e2f3ac6906757a196ef033e25d190 

SPOTTED: Walter Isaacson, Michael Oreskes, Gary Knell, Melissa Moss, Harold Ickes, Richard Stengel, Hilary Rosen, Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, Maureen Dowd, Jill Abramson, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobucher and Ed Markey, Judge David Tatel, Ann Ravel, Margaret Hamburg, Kathleen Kennedy Townshend, Elisabeth Bumiller, Bill Hamilton, James Bennet, Al Hunt, Ruth Marcus, Doyle McManus, Katty Kay.

--Twitter on Tuesday night formally celebrated the opening of its new D.C. office near the White House.SPOTTED: Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Amb. Daniel Sepulveda, office of Communications & Information Policy at State, former U.S. Amb. to South Africa Don Gips, Zac Moffat, Matt Lira, Michael Beckerman, Shana Glickfield, Keegan Goudiss,

Josh Lahey, Michael Petricone, Phil Musser, Hector Sigala, Jen Nedeau, Eamon Javers,

Jonathan Weisman, Dianne Gallagher, Paul Kane, Igor Bobic, Reema Dodin, David Morgenstern, Sabrina Siddiqui, Forest Harger, Jen Steinhauer, Alex Byers, Jenna McLaughlin, Katie Grant, Seung-Min Kim, Hadas Gold, Byron Tau, Damian Paletta,

Natalie Andrews.

SPOTTED at Juliette Kayyem's book signing for "Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home" at Politics and Prose (released Tuesday and already a best seller): Emcee Steve Inskeep, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Lisa Brown, Amy Jeffress, Julie Siegel, Angelica Annino and fellow Team Napolitano alumni Jordan Grossman and Phil McNamara. $16.81 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee2a3e27b8e47ea158e4919e5a99758fb1b3c1bc12f942ecd6

HAPPENING TONIGHT -- Global Strategy Group is hosting a launch party for the Huffington Post podcast "Candidate Confessional" tonight. Hosts Sam Stein and Jason Cherkis will share their insights from interviews with famous "losers" such as Howard Dean, Michelle Bachmann, Anthony Weiner and Wendy Davis on what life is like on the losing side of the campaign trail. From 6-8 p.m. at Comcast NBC at 300 New Jersey Ave NW.Invite http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee511ce78b0bf9487379697ff86d2cbbf244256fe67928449a ... RSVP [email-masked]

MILESTONE - United Airlines turned 90 yesterday -- "more than 4 billion passengers have flown the friendly skies over that past 9 decades." Historical timelines / stats http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee7781d0674e09c838afa7a2e528c1716bc9498248b60e5dac ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beece5e2b7c7c44c5ec78ffe09f95e299821508b1b59169a849 ... 1-min. video  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2bee8a0b64b9d8f7bd42c8a8eeeac602cfae866b348db62ea2e5

SPORTS BLINK -- "Fox Sports Looks to Bring Political Ads to Baseball," by Bloomberg's Tim Higgins:"Advertisers already like sports broadcasts, which people watch live without skipping ads. Fox Sports, which sells ads for a group of about 40 regional sports channels across the U.S., commissioned research that found that viewers of local sports tend to be undecided voters-exactly the people campaigns most want to reach. They're 2.5 times more likely to trust candidates whose ads they see during games, almost twice as likely to remember them, and twice as likely as people who watch local news to vote for them." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beeffc60279d0ad11f8b8df5f64b8b4aa124afa37ec988acde0

MASTERS BLINK - "Nicklaus talks the 6 toughest shots at Augusta National," by AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson in Augusta, Ga.: "Along with his six green jackets, ... [Jack] Nicklaus still holds career marks with 508 birdies and 24 eagles. ... 'If you can play those shots well, then the rest of the golf course is relatively easy ... There's nothing magical about it.' TEE SHOT ON NO. 2 ... SECOND SHOT ON NO. 11 ... TEE SHOT ON NO. 12 ... TEE SHOT ON NO. 13 ... SECOND SHOT ON NO. 13 ... SECOND SHOT ON NO. 15." With Jack's narrative of each http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=fe855ad916ad2beee890d576c337240597048aa8469a8a7300a86c8f0fdc18a2

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Kevin O'Hanlon, director of federal gov't affairs at the Entertainment Software Association (h/t Nika Nour) ... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints turned 186 ... Carolina V. Valencia, senior director at Univision managing social media and comms ... DCCC alum Jerah Smith ... (was Monday): Phil Kraft, in Rep. Candice Miller's district office in Michigan, turned 3-0 (h/t Aaron J. Baylis) ... Mary Grace Brown (hat tip: Dad, Dale Brown)

BIRTHDAYS: McConnell alum Josh Holmes, president and founding partner of Cavalry LLC (Nats tip: Blair Latoff Holmes) ... Daniel Lippman is 26 (h/ts Tim Burger, Blain Rethmeier, Melissa Brown, Sean Spicer, Jon Haber, colleagues Tomer Ovadia and Rachel Schindler) ... Bill McQuillen, director of public affairs of Burston-Marsteller and a Bloomberg alum (h/t Keil) ... Michael Meehan ... California Gov. Jerry Brown is 78 ... former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, now president of Purdue University, is 67 ... Politico's Darren Samuelsohn, the pride of Pembroke Pines, Fla. ... Politico's Maggie Severns, Jon Otto, and Fernando Rodas ... Hilary Perry, a Chapel Hill native and UNC grad (h/t Keil) ...
 media commentator Hodding Carter III is 81 ... HuffPost's senior politics editor Paige Lavender ... Cliff Hackel ... Bonnie Levin, celebrating on April 23 with family and friends at the 8th Annual Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup (h/ts Haber) ... Chimene Okere, special adviser for capital access at SBA, is 24 ... Tony Zeng, JPM Tech and #BigOrange alum, celebrates 25 in NYC (h/ts Sophia Kim) ...

... Eric Walker, DNC's deputy comms. director (h/t Christina Freundlich) ... Angus Viebranz ... Alyssa Canobbio, media analyst at the Washington Free Beacon ... Sam Brill ... Andrew Holt, publisher of City & State Magazine ... Sara Lynn Croom, managing director at Ainsley Shea Potomac ... Cara Bowers, a Politico alum now program associate at the Heckscher Foundation for Children ... Dan Patrick, managing editor of KPHO in Phoenix and a WJLA alum ... Aleesa Mann, a Politico alum ... WashTimes' Jessica Chasmar ... Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org and a USA Today alum ... Valerie Nelson, senior managing director in Dentons' Public Policy and Regulation practice and a Cantor alum ...
 former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder ... Antoine Artiganave ... Rene Redwood ... Fabiola Rodriguez-Ciampoli ... Dana Gray ... Mark Rhomberg (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Mark Rhomberg ... Dana Gray ... Fabiola Rodriguez-Ciampoli ... Rene Redwood ... Simon Lieber ... Antoine Artiganave ... Jimmy Williams, host at DecodeDC ... John J. Louizos ... Denis Gray ...

... Hilary Lefebvre, founder of AcadiaCo and founder and president of On Air Strategy and an ABC News alum ... Collin Hansen ... Tom Lehner, VP of public policy at Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association ... Sam Brill ... Curt Grieve ... Fabiola Rodriguez-Ciampoli ... Ryan Miller ... movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 77 ... John Oates is 68 ... Jackie Chan is 62 ... College and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett is 62 ... Russell Crowe is 52 ... Tiki Barber is 41 ... actor Conner Rayburn is 17 (h/ts AP)

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