Subject: RE: following up on Brian Deese
From: "Costa, Kristina" <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:32:28 +0000

How about: He pushed to include the Clean Energy Investment Initiative in SOTU, it didn’t make the cut in a year where we didn’t announce a long list of new initiatives, but then we ramped it up and had it be his first major announcement when he went to ARPA-E after it was known that he would be taking over.

From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 5:26 PM
To: Costa, Kristina
Subject: Fwd: following up on Brian Deese

Thoughts?
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From: "Davenport, Coral" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Apr 2, 2015 4:59 PM
Subject: following up on Brian Deese
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Cc:

Hi, John,
Thanks so much for taking the time to chat about Brian. The story's mostly set, but we're looking for one more anecdote that shows him in action on climate change. Could you think of a moment when you recall him being in the room, doing something specific on climate, as the plans were being made to pass on the reins to him? Any example you could think of would be welcome!
thanks so much,
Coral

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