Subject: Re: Question about Congressional Investigations Paper
From: Brian Gilmore <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 16:40:42 -0400

Dear Professor,

I've attached here a new draft, which is 5 pages longer (including new
footnotes), so that should put me over 20 pages of text. Thanks for
allowing me to resubmit, and generally, for teaching this class--it's been
a real pleasure.

Best wishes,
Brian

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Brian Gilmore <[email-masked]>wrote:

> OK.  The grade does matter to me (clerkship applications, etc.), so I'll
> try to beef it up.  If I don't quite make 20 pages of text, I'd ask for a
> little leeway, because I did include a number of textual footnotes, where
> the substance broke up the flow too much above-the-line.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:08 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]>wrote:
>
>> Your call. You can let it go as is. Might affect the grade.
>> On May 9, 2014 7:28 AM, "Brian Gilmore" <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Professor Podesta,
>>>
>>> Sorry to bother you with a clerical question, but after I turned my
>>> paper in yesterday, I noticed that the syllabus said "twenty pages
>>> *excluding* footnotes."  All along I hadn't even considered the
>>> possibility that the length would be counted as something other than text +
>>> footnotes.
>>>
>>> My paper was 21 pages with footnotes, and now I've gone back to remove
>>> all of the footnotes, and it's about 16 pages of text.  I think it's a
>>> strong paper, but if the length is a problem, I will spend the day adding
>>> to it (assuming that I can even resubmit).  What would you prefer?
>>>
>>> Thanks, and sorry about the confusion,
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>