Subject: RE: WH meeting and MOU
From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:51:18 -0500

This is obviously on my list of things to raise with Blake Gottesman (I’m pushing him to schedule something).  But here’s what my research assistants found on the use of government aircraft:

The Presidential Transitions Effectiveness Act, passed in 1988 (P.L. 100-398; 102 Stat. 985), added a new section 3(a)(4)(B) to the Presidential Transition Act of 1963.  The new section states:

"When requested by the President-elect or Vice-President-elect or their designee, and approved by the President, Government aircraft may be provided for transition purposes on a reimbursable basis; when requested by the President-elect, the Vice-President-elect, or the designee of the President-elect or Vice-President-elect, aircraft may be chartered for transition purposes; and any collections from the Secret Service, press, or others occupying space on chartered aircraft shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriations made under section 6 of this Act."  

From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 8:57 PM
To: Chris Lu
Subject: Re: WH meeting and MOU

We probably shouldn't be reimbursing if presidential mission.

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From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:32:00 -0500
To: <[email-masked]>
CC: Juliana Gendelman<[email-masked]>
Subject: WH meeting and MOU

Just got off the phone with Blake Gottesman.  Their meeting with us keeps getting delayed because they’re trying to get all of their people in agreement on the MOU.  They’re starting from the 2000 MOU that you did (which they will send to us).  They also said the meeting would be more productive if we could give them a list of the other topics we want covered.  The only one I mentioned was the reimbursement rates for military aircraft should we choose to go down the route.  If you’re comfortable with my flagging some of the other issues in Brad’s memo, let me know.  And I’ll keep pressing them to schedule this meeting ASAP.