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From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:33:05 -0500

Wow. This sounds like a big opportunity. What do they want him to talk about?

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From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
To: Amitabh Desai; Bruce Lindsey
Sent: Wed Dec 21 20:53:39 2011
Subject: Fwd: Fw:

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From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Fw:
To: Terry Krinvic <[email-masked]>

Yes Chu called me directly and really pushed (which he is not know
for) to get him to come.  This is going to be a big deal. They have
Bill Gates, Fred Smith and Lee Scott confirmed for the 28th and Ursula
Burns and Susan Hochstedler, President of MIT confirmed for the 29th.
Really hoping to get President Clinton on the 29th, but will
accomodate his schedule if 28th is better.  I think it is worth doing

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Terry Krinvic
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi John
> I spoke with WJC about this tonight. He said he was interested and would do the event if we thought it was a good opportunity. He asked if Chu invited him. I said YES via You. Let me know if you would like to deliver and I can go forward with planning, or however you see fit.
> Best
> t
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:03 PM
> To: Terry Krinvic
> Cc: Amitabh Desai
> Subject: Re: Fw:
>
> Terry,
> Secretary Chu called and asked me to raise the possibility with President Clinton of his keynoting the DOE's ARPA-E Summitt on February 29 or 28 in Washington DC.  29th is their preference. This is the premier energy innovation conference sponsored by the Department annually and could definitely be worth his time. High level of press attention.  Didn't want to raise unless you thought it was plausible.
> John