Subject: Truman at DNCC: Highlights
From: "Mike Breen" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 17:28:40 -0400

Members of the Truman Center and Truman Project Boards,

It was great to see many of you at the Convention in Philadelphia last
week. We had a wonderful lineup of speakers at our official Truman events,
and it was fantastic to see so many of our members participating as
delegates, professionals, advocates, and supporters.

Most importantly, in a year in which the stakes could not be higher -- and
our issues are front and center -- Truman's voice is being heard more
clearly than ever before.

Here are some of the highlights:

*Truman Convention by the Numbers*

*104 Truman Members were in Philadelphia *as delegates, professionals,
advocates, and supporters.

*12+ Events led by or featuring Truman members*, including Truman speakers
and panelists at both meetings of the DNC’s Vets & Military Families
Caucus; a roundtable on American competitiveness with leaders from Fortune
500 companies; a concert by-and-benefiting veterans; a panel on gun
violence featuring Congressmen John Lewis and James Clyburn; and a social
impact-focused film festival.

*4 Official Truman events*, included a panel on the Future of American
Strength, featured a senior policy adviser from Hillary for America, a
recently retired general, a senior international pollster, and a Member of
Congress from Mexico; an intimate breakfast with Secretary Madeleine
Albright; a membership recruitment event featuring former head of USAID Dr.
Rajiv Shah; and a party in conjunction with our official partners at
MTV’s Elect
This <http://www.electthis.com/> program.

*300+ Democratic delegates from five states were briefed and trained* on
National Security and Foreign Policy in the 2016 Election.

*Six Truman members were featured on the mainstage* on the closing night of
the Convention, alongside General Allen.

*One* image of Secretary Clinton participating in the Truman Project
veterans roundtable at the VFW in Derry, NH on November 10th was *featured
on-screen in the arena* (and caught by CNN) during Katy Perry’s performance
on Thursday night.

*One Truman member* – Marine veteran Kristen Kavanaugh - *spoke for four
minutes during Wednesday primetime on the mainstage* of the Convention.

*And just in the last two days, we've kept up the pressure. *Yesterday,
President Obama published an op-ed
<http://taskandpurpose.com/obama-on-veterans/> in Task and Purpose, a
leading online publication for post-9/11 veterans run by a group of three
Truman members.

And finally, this morning, in response to recent comments made by Donald
Trump about Khizr Khan and his family (Khan's son was killed while serving
in Iraq), I was honored to be included as a signatory on a *letter*
<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3002458-Letter-to-Donald-Trump-from-military-combat.html#document/p1>
sent
to Trump and covered in *today's Washington Post*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/01/bipartisan-coalition-of-veterans-gold-star-family-members-tells-trump-his-comments-were-unacceptable/?tid=sm_tw>.
The
letter was signed by a bipartisan coalition of 40 leading veterans and Gold
Star family members, including a Medal of Honor recipient.

I look forward to seeing you all on December 1st for the Truman Center and
Truman Project board meetings. In the meantime, I promise you that the
staff and I won't let up for a second in making the case for our values,
for our policies, and for America to remain true to its best self.

Thank you all for your continued engagement and support. We couldn't do
this without you!

Onward,

Mike

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*Michael Breen*President & CEO
Truman Center for National Policy | Truman National Security Project

Office: 202.216.9723 x2325
Cell: 603.828.9550
@TrumanProject | @TrumanCenter
www.TrumanProject.org | w <http://www.trumanproject.org>ww.TrumanCenter.org

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