Subject: Re: Economic Staffing Decisions
From: [email-masked]
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:47:23 +0000

I will give you an answer on this tomorrow.

Barack
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-----Original Message-----
From: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:17:28 
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: Pete Rouse<[email-masked]>
Subject: Economic Staffing Decisions

Barack,

Good meeting yesterday. When we got off on the idea of creating an
emergency national economic council, we left unresolved two questions
that were contained in my 2 page cover memo. First, should Daley or
Tarullo run the interim economic staff team in the early days of the
transition (with the expectation that once appointed the National
Economic Advisor would take over)? These are presented as options 2
and 3 on page 2 of the memo. I lean towards option 3, with Tarullo in
charge, but either would work. That needs resolution today or tomorrow
so we can execute on Wednesday. Second, we need to decide on who
should be on the interim outside council. There is a list of
suggestions on the bottom of page 2. You added Warren Buffett to the
potential list. How do you want to proceed? Pick from the list? have
further discussion? Let me know.

John

The memos are attached for your review.