Subject: Fwd: Talking points
From: <[email-masked]>
To: "mark gitenstein" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Robert Hoopes" <[email-masked]>, "Valerie Biden Owens" <[email-masked]>, "Mark Angelson" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "ted kaufman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 15:45:18 +0000 (UTC)

I have been spending a lot of time her= in UK on the Foundation.

Bob Bauer who has just become our lawyer =nd is the number one expert in the country on this stuff (he advises the P=esident also) has some real problems with the website and talking points.<=r>
For a while it did not look like we could use it on our Tuesday appo=ntments.

He has sent a summary of his concerns and Robert Hoopes h=s agreed to work on including his requests on the website for Tuesday.
=br>Also, we made some changes in the Talking Points. (See below). I will b= back in the states tomorrow. Give me a call with any questions.

As=my Mom said to me many years ago - "nothing in life that is worthwhile com=s easy". This is very worthwhile and is turning out to be very difficult.<=r>
Have a happy weekend.

Ted

50616A Bauer Approved talkin= points

I am very excited about the Vice President’s plans=after he leaves office.  He plans to be very active.

The cent=r piece of the Vice President’s work after he leaves office will b= The Joseph Biden Foundation and Library.

The Foundation will prov=de the office place and staff to continue his leadership on issues that ar= critical to him and I know critical to you.

He has a numbe= of opportunities to continue his life’s work in foreign policy, c=ncer research, equal treatment before the law, preventing violence against=women and children, support of community colleges, and American veterans.<=r>
In addition, he will establish the first Vice President Library and=Center.

The VP plans to dedicate the rest of his life to th=s new stage of his public service.

I hope you will consider suppor=ing the Foundation at this exciting time.

I think you care about V= and want to see him be able to do that from the first day.
.
We are=not raising money for specific programmatic efforts at this moment.  =e are raising money to get the Foundation up and running..

Over th= next nine months the VP can make decisions on how he is going to organize=his life after VP, but he is limited ethically in how much he can be invol=ed, and he is still very busy being VP.

He has been approached by = number of major academic institutions about joining them after 1/20/17.
We have been told that he will have a number of financial opportuniti=s.

The Biden Foundation is not about money. It is totally about giv=ng the VP a platform for the issues he cares about.

We want you inv=lved in helping with that process.

The Foundation’s number=one objective for this year is to raise the money to assure that the VP ha= the funding to hit the ground running on 1/20/17 when he leaves office.
We are far along in developing a Biden Foundation website which we p=an to go public with in July.

Show them the web site.

You =an see from our proposed website that the VP is planning for a very energe=ic post VP life.

When it becomes public we would like to be able t= show on the website that the foundation has already received significant =ontributions from good people for him to hit the ground running.

Th= preferred way to do this is to have leaders among his good friends and su=porters give or raise $500,000 contributions

As you can also see, =ike the Barack Obama website, there will be full transparency with all con=ributors placed on the website.

Do you have any questions?
Opti=nal –

These early contributors will be an interesting grou=.
We plan to keep them informed on developments in the Foundation.
W= just set up Foundation in January because
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Fro=: Bob Bauer (Perkins Coie)
To: Ted Kaufman
Cc: Ste=e Ricchetti, mark gitenstein, Alex Snyder-Mackler, John McGrail
Sent= May 6, 2016 at 3:43 PM
Subject: RE: Talking points

I have only one comment on the talking points – – I would =ot refer to any legal limits on what VP can currently do. There's no n=ed to introduce that into the discussion at this point. It should be suffi=ient to say that he will be busy and will not be
able to turn his attention to this project fully until he leaves office.

On the website,  it may be easiest for me to identify the parts t=at should be put "under construction", subject to revision later= and so here goes

1. I would delete the reference the paragraph entitled A Family Affair=

2. I would delete: any references to current Vice Presidential activit=es:

--&nbs=;the report on the Vice Presidents trip to Iraq

--&nbs=;the link to the New Yorker and Foreign Policy articles

--the =ink to the article on the Cyprus visit

I am less concerned about the links to his views on LGBT rights and th= Moon Shot.

3.  I'm confused by the references to the Dr. Jill Biden Foun=ation and the Beau Biden Foundation. . This seems to suggest separate orga=izations bearing their names?   I wouldn't have any concerns abou= references to Dr. Joe Biden's "leadership in" the
Foundation, or critical work "with" or" for" the Found=tion.

4. Finally, I'm fine with the video, so long as there is no identi=ied location on the site soliciting contributions. And I did not see one. =his relates to the Vice President's closing comment about being able t= do this with the viewers "help."  So long
as this reference is  unconnected to any suggestion of fundraising, I=#39;m not troubled by it at this stage and given  the uses we have in=mind for the video right now.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

From: [email-masked] [tedkaufman@=omcast.net]

Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 10:00 AM

To: Bauer, Bob (Perkins Coie)

Cc: Steve Ricchetti; mark gitenstein; Alex Snyder-Mackler; John McGr=il

Subject: Talking points

Bob

Here are the talking points with the changes we discussed. OK?

Looking forward to getting your edits to the website.

Thanks

Ted

50616 Bauer Approved talking points

I am very excited about the Vice President’s plans after he leaves of=ice.  He plans to be very active.

The center piece of the Vice President’s work after he leaves office =ill be The Joseph Biden Foundation and Library.

The Foundation will provide the office place and staff to continue his lead=rship on issues that are critical to him and I know critical to you.  =

He has a number of opportunities to continue his life’s work in forei=n policy, cancer research, equal treatment before the law, preventing viol=nce against women and children, support of community colleges, and America= veterans.

In addition, he will establish the first Vice President Library and Center.=

The VP plans to dedicate the rest of his life to this new stage of his publ=c service.

I hope you will consider supporting the Foundation at this exciting time.

I think you care about VP and want to see him be able to do that from the f=rst day.

.

We are not raising money for specific programmatic efforts at this moment. =nbsp;We are raising money to get the Foundation up and running..

Over the next nine months the VP can make decisions on how he is going to o=ganize his life after VP, but he is limited legally in how much he can be =nvolved, and he is still very busy being VP.

He has been approached by a number of major academic institutions about joi=ing them after 1/20/17.

We have been told that he will have a number of financial opportunities but=they too, will have wait until after 1/20/17.

The Biden Foundation is not about money. It is totally about giving the VP = platform for the issues he cares about.

We want you involved in helping with that process.

The Foundation’s number one objective for this year is to raise the m=ney to assure that the VP has the funding to hit the ground running on 1/2=/17 when he leaves office.

We are far along in developing a Biden Foundation website which we plan to =o public with in July.

Show them the web site.

You can see from our proposed website that the VP is planning for a very en=rgetic post VP life.

When it becomes public we would like to be able to show on the website that=the foundation has already received significant contributions from good pe=ple for him to hit the ground running.

The preferred way to do this is to have leaders among his good friends and =upporters give or raise $500,000 contributions

As you can also see, like the Barack Obama website, there will be full tran=parency with all contributors placed on the website.

Do you have any questions?

Optional –

These early contributors will be an interesting group.

We plan to keep them informed on developments in the Foundation.

We just set up Foundation in January because of chaotic 2014/15.

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