Subject: Re: helmut Kohl
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tina Flournoy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 18:55:04 +0000

Yessir. We've been in touch with the editor Kai and the writers here are working on this. We just haven't confirmed it yet with Kai since WJC also has been asked to attend the funeral and if he delivers remarks, we were pondering simply providing an edited version of his remarks to the BILD folks as the written piece.

On Sep 2, 2015, at 2:51 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Below is not self explanatory. Donfreid runs German Marshall Fund. She was contacted because Kohl is evidently close to dying.  According to her, through her German intermediary, kohl personally requested that WJC write a piece sort of in memorium to be published in Der Bild upon his death
They said they tried to contact his office but to no avail. I think this is on the level and WJC may want to do. Ami, can you follow up?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Eckart von Klaeden" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Sep 2, 2015 2:21 PM
Subject: Re:
To: "Karen Donfried" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Cc: "[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>

> Dear Karen, thousand thanks!
> John, Kai Diekmann is the editor in Chief of BILD, Europe's largest newspaper, and so close to Helmut Kohl and his wife Maike Kohl-Richter, that he served as his best man. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me. But you could also contact him directly.
> Thank you very much in advance!
> Best, Eckart
>
> Von meinem iPad gesendet
>
> > Am 02.09.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Karen Donfried <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>:
> >
> > Dear John, a thousand thanks for your help!
> > Dear Eckart, John Podesta has offered to help with the matter you raised with me this morning.  I wanted to connect you two over email in the event that either of you need to follow up.
> >
> > John, the email address of the person who reached out to the office is:
> > [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>