Subject: Fwd: you at your absolute best
From: Cheryl Mills <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 20:37:37 -0400

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From: Anne-Marie Slaughter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:16 PM
Subject: you at your absolute best
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Huma <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
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Hillary,

I saw a clip of you talking about race and humility on Friday, which struck
me as exactly the right note to strike. Then it hit me. Why doesn’t the
campaign show clips of your 2008 Convention speech? It was one of the best
speeches you ever gave, chiding your supporters for being in the race for
you rather than for all the people you were fighting for. That litany, when
you went through all those groups/people that you had met on the campaign
trail and that you wanted to help, had every woman in the place, certainly
including me, close to tears. If you bring it back now, it shows you at a
humble, vulnerable moment doing what you do better than anyone in the world
– picking yourself up and getting back into the fight that you have devoted
your life to.  I frankly don’t know anyone else in American politics
capable of writing or giving that speech, certainly including our dear
veep. For those folks who don’t trust you and your reasons for running for
President, it’s a powerful piece of counter-evidence.

Also, for what’s worth on the speech front, I listed humility as one of my
7 fundamental American values in The Idea That Is America, going through
Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower etc. I sent a note to Dan S suggesting that
he might find some good material.

Best,

AM