Subject: RE: President Carter
From: Denis McDonough <[email-masked]>
To: Sara Latham <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "'Rahm Emanuel ([email-masked])'" <[email-masked]>, Jim Steinberg <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Susan Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:34:10 -0500

this is obviously a fairly large problem.

please let Jim, Susan, Mark and me work this and come back to you with a proposal.

Denis

From: Sara Latham
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 2:29 PM
To: [email-masked]; 'Rahm Emanuel ([email-masked])'; Denis McDonough; Jim Steinberg; [email-masked]; [email-masked]; Susan Rice
Subject: FW: President Carter

see email below - President Carter requesting to meet with Pres-Elect  regarding his upcoming trip to Syria and Lebanon - Dec. 8 - 15th.

From: Sara Latham [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 1:05 PM
To: Sara Latham
Subject: Fwd: President Carter

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rick Jasculca <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: 10 November 2008 18:03:19 GMT
To: Sara Latham <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: President Carter

Sara, I need your help on behalf of President Carter.  I also have contacted
Liz Sears, Rahm's Senate COS, to see if she could lend an assist; however,
given your knowledge of President Carter and White House experience, you are
likely to know the best and fastest route.

In August, President Carter met with David Axelrod at the Denver Hyatt and
shared with him his plans for a trip to the Middle East this fall, including
Syria and Lebanon.  That was followed by a phone call between President
Carter and then-Senator Obama days after the Convention.  President Carter
last spoke with President-Elect Obama on Election Night...an obviously very
brief phone call.

This morning, I heard from President Carter and his long-time scheduler,
Nancy Konigsmark.  President Carter is seeking a meeting this month with
President-Elect Obama, at any location the President-Elect chooses, to
discuss President Carter's upcoming trip to Syria and Lebanon.

I am not sure if this is a Rahm, John Podesta, Joe Biden or Alyssa
issue...perhaps all of the above, but I was certain you could most
expeditiously put this into the right hands and hopefully get Nancy and I in
touch with whoever can make this happen.

I fully understand everyone is swamped.  But, this trip has been long
scheduled and is a follow-on to the Middle East trip earlier this year by
President Carter and former Rep. Steve Solarz.  A number of high level and
sensitive meetings have been scheduled, and President Carter feels it is
important to have a consultation with the President-Elect before he departs.
I've got to believe that President-Elect Obama will at least want to be in
the loop on this.

Thank you for your assistance.

Rick Jasculca
312-337-7400 ofc
312-953-6858 cell