Subject: Re: One more thought
From: "Denis McDonough" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:44:57 -0500

Will there be one person overseeing all nat'l security transition team? 

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From: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
To: Denis McDonough
Sent: Sat Oct 11 21:49:15 2008
Subject: Re: One more thought

Fyi. We are not using clusters as a meaningful structure.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Denis McDonough" <[email-masked]>

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:08:46 
To: <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: One more thought

Thanks for this.  Jim is first rate. Would be valuable to get them
together. And he seems to be working tirelessly on transition stuff.  In
my humble opinion, we need to empower him to press ahead on some
planning stuff and make him the cluster head of the national security
team.  

This economy is crazy.  What is happening here?  This has to push Bush
to the absolute bottom and earn him the moniker of worst president ever.

You doing all right? 

DM 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:09 PM
To: Mike Froman
Cc: Denis McDonough
Subject: Re: One more thought

Yes we should move on this.
------Original Message------
From: Mike Froman
To: [email-masked]
Sent: Oct 11, 2008 12:50 PM
Subject: Fw: One more thought

How would you like me to respond to this?  I received a separate message
on Jim J. I'll forward you.

----- Original Message -----
From: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
To: Froman, Michael B [CAI]
Sent: Sat Oct 11 12:48:24 2008
Subject: One more thought

Mike - 

Denis and I were chatting and we thought that it would be good to get
Jim S in the mix for a meeting with O, for a # of reasons: 

1) O may end up prefering Jim over the other guy, 2) we want Jim to have
a key role/big job no matter what the outcome of #1 and 3) the other guy
could say no.  

Jim was on the trip, but his ability to spend much time with O was quite
limited.  Despite all of us expressing our high regard for Jim, there is
no substitute for a little face to face time w/ Jim.  Another option
might be to put Jim on the plane for a leg, under the guise of him
briefing O on an issue (like McFaul did).  O you can have a failry
private chat on the plane at the table.  

Thoughts?

Mark
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