Subject: RE: Beau Biden Award & picture
From: "Anthony Bernal" <[email-masked]>
To: "Joshua Alcorn" <[email-masked]>, "Melinda Medlin" <[email-masked]>, "Kathy Chung" <[email-masked]>, "Patty Dailey Lewis" <[email-masked]>, "Valerie Biden Owens" <[email-masked]>, "Hallie Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Robert Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:37:52 -0400

FYSA:

The Following just posted:

Ann!!!  So wonderful to be in touch – I think about you often and hope all is well.

Please meet Vice President Biden’s Director of Scheduling, Melinda Medlin, copied above.

We understand that AG Dent has an outstanding request to the Bidens regarding the BB Award and a possible official Photo Unveiling. 

Melinda, and I wondered how best to move these requests to conclusion – with whom may we discuss these requests, timing, venue, etc?

We are happy to jump on the telephone with you and/or a member of your team as needed.

All the very best (and a big hug),
AB

Anthony R. Bernal
Boston, MA

Anthony R. Bernal
Boston, MA

From: Joshua Alcorn
Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:26 AM
To: Melinda Medlin; Kathy Chung; Patty Dailey Lewis; Valerie Biden Owens; Hallie Biden; Robert Hunter; Anthony Bernal
Subject: Re: Beau Biden Award & picture

Hi folks, the AG’s office reached out to follow up on this request. Is there any interest in doing something with the AG’s office? 

Joshua Alcorn
302.477.2018 (office)
302.598.1885 (cell)
[email-masked]

On May 8, 2018, at 9:54 AM, Joshua Alcorn <[email-masked]> wrote:

Hi folks, I wanted to make sure Hallie, Hunter and Valerie saw this request from Matt Denn. This is the first I’ve heard from Matt about a formal portrait unveiling.

Joshua Alcorn
302.477.2018 (office)
302.598.1885 (cell)
[email-masked]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Denn, Matthew (DOJ)" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Beau Biden Award & picture
Date: May 8, 2018 at 9:39:17 AM EDT
To: VP Scheduling <[email-masked]>
Cc: Joshua Alcorn <[email-masked]>

Josh and Melinda -- I am writing to follow up on our email exchange from last September regarding the Vice President possibly visiting the Delaware Department of Justice to be present for one of our events honoring the memory of former Attorney General Beau Biden.

As I had mentioned last fall, I received a call from Vice President Biden shortly after Beau's funeral, and the Vice President had indicated an interest in coming to the Department of Justice at some time when Beau's service as AG would be remembered.  The scheduling did not work out last year, but I wanted to suggest two possibilities if he was interested in joining us this year.

The first, and easiest, is that we have never had a formal 'unveiling' of Beau's picture in the office's main conference room where all of the pictures of the past several Attorneys General hang.  His picture was hung there shortly after his term of office ended, but there was no ceremony.  No one I have spoken to can recall if there have been ceremonies for the pictures of AGs who preceded Beau, but we would be happy to have one on any date that was convenient for the Vice President when he is in town.  We would invite everyone from the office, and it could either be a private or public event depending on the Biden family's preference.

The second possibility is having the Vice President be present when this year's Beau Biden service award is given away.  This is an annual service award to a long-term DOJ employee that we created in Beau's memory.  There are two venues where we can do that: at our annual DOJ picnic at Lums Pond, which at noon on September 28, or at our annual DOJ continuing education retreat which is at the Atlantic Sands in Rehoboth on October 17th.  Both attorneys and non-attorney staff attend the September picnic, only attorneys attend the continuing education retreat.  These two options are obviously less convenient for the Vice President, but the advantage of doing it at one of these events is that the courts usually do not schedule cases during them, so all of our attorneys will be present, as opposed to a regular work day when a fair number on any given day must be in court.

Please let me know if you would like us to follow up on any of these options.  Beau was very important to a lot of people who work here, and this seemed like something that was important to the Vice President, so I wanted to be sure I tried to see this through.

Matt Denn
Delaware Attorney General