Subject: *resending* White House - Monday
From: "Alyssa Mastromonaco" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], "Stephanie Cutter" <[email-masked]>, "Dan Pfeiffer" <[email-masked]>, "Anita Dunn" <[email-masked]>, "Robert Gibbs" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "David Cusack" <[email-masked]>, "Danielle Crutchfield" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:36:29 -0600

Here is the proposal from the White House - Dave Cusack, copied - will
be doing a walk through tomorrow.

If this isn't acceptable or you want changes, pls reply all. Thanks

 

-- The President and Mrs. Bush would greet the President-Elect and Mrs.
Obama at the North Portico of the White House.  We envision Pool
coverage of the arrival.

    ** this is similar to how we normally handle arrivals for visiting
foreign leaders -- e.g., when the Queen came in May of 2007.

    ** there is a slight chance the north portico will not be use-able
on Monday due to Inaugural construction.  We are checking on that.  If
there is a problem, we would shift this to the South Portico.  I will
let you know as soon as that detail is confirmed.  I'm hoping we can use
North Portico.

-- After the arrival greeting, the President and Mrs. Bush would escort
the President-Elect and Mrs. Obama into the White House, where they
would be greeted by Admiral Stephen Rochon, who is Director of the
Executive Residence and Chief Usher.

-- The President and Mrs. Bush and The President-Elect and Mrs. Obama
would visit privately for a few moments, at their discretion.

    ** This would give us a chance to reposition the Press Pool(s) for
the next movement.

-- When ready, the two spouses would split off, and Mrs. Bush would
proceed to give Mrs. Obama a tour of the Residence.

    ** I believe the details of this portion are being / will be worked
out directly between Anita McBride (Mrs. Bush's chief of staff) and Mrs.
Obama's staff, but please let me know if you understand differently.

-- The President and the President-Elect would proceed downstairs and on
to the Oval Office via the Colonnade.  We envision Pool coverage of the
Colonnade walk.

-- The President and the President-Elect would then meet in the Oval
Office.  We have this meeting on the President's schedule for 1 hour,
ending at 3:20 pm.  We are recommending that this be Photo Release
(closed press, but an official photo would be released).

-- After the meeting, the President and President-Elect would proceed
back to the Residence, where they would link back up with the spouses.

-- The President-Elect and Mrs. Obama would then depart.

 

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Alyssa Mastromonaco 

Director of Scheduling and Advance

Obama for America 

312-819-2008
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