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Friday, March 20, 20098:05 AM

Cheryl Mills; H
Abedin, Huma
RE: Talking Points for Call with Sen Feinstein and Greg Craig
I've printed these and will give a copy to the Secretary and also to Huma.
Claire
From: Cheryl Mills [mailto:cheryl.mills

Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 6:02 AM
To: hdr22(aclintonemail.com
Cc: Abedin, Huma; Coleman, Claire L
Subject: Talking Points for Call with Sen Feinstein and Greg Craig
Attached are two sets of talking points I will have Claire print for you today for two call on behalf of
Goodwin's candidacy for the Ninth Circuit.
The first set is for Sen Feinstein, which stresses Goodwin's moderate judgment she apparently needs
reassurance that Goodwin is not too liberal.
The other set is for Greg Craig, which stresses Goodwin's progressive credentials as he likely will find that
more appealing.
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:03 AM
Re: Exciting News
Will do.
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To: Valmoro, Lona J
Sent: Thu Apr 02 01:33:20 2009
Subject: Fw: Exciting News
Pis contact Dave to set up a time for hm to come in to see me. Thx.
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To: Senator Clinton<hr15@att.blackberry.net>
Cc: Faithdav6
Subject: Exciting News
Hi Hillary, you are doing an amazing job as our Secretary of State and we are all immensely proud of you.
Really enjoyed your recent remarks regarding Afghanistan. Your words were spot on. Fyi, I will be in Kabul, Afghanistan
from 7 thru 14 April and am being hosted by Flamed Wardak, the son of the Afghanistan Secretary of Defense. Looking
forward to the visit.
There is some exciting personal news that I wanted to share with you. Although it has not yet been announced, I wanted
you to know that I recently interviewed with Cisco President ( John Chambers) and accepted a senior executive position
( effective 4 May ) to be the face and thought leader for Cisco in the field of "Intelligent Urbanization" with my focus
area being on Physical Safety and Security.
My wife (Faith) and I will live in Bangalore, India ( we are very excited ) and my area of responsibility will be the
emerging markets of Asia, Middle East and Africa . Since I will operate from India that particular country will be a major
focal point.
The use of the Network to improve the quality of life of Millions of people in areas such as Education, Health Care and
Security will be a major thrust of " Intelligent Urbanization". Faith and I are pumped up about our new overseas
adventure and the chance to work for a world class company and a superb business leader like John Chambers.
It is really a wonderful opportunity to positively impact many lives around the Globe.
Hope to perhaps call on you for a few minutes before I head over to India.
All the best and God Bless.
Sincerely, Dave
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:44 PM
FW: DPRK/CHINA: AMCIT BORDER DETENTIONS UPDATE #13
Classified by DAS, A/GIS, DoS on 06/30/2015 Class: CONFIDENTIAL

Reason: 1.4(B), 1.4(D) Declassify on: 03/30/2034
FYI
From: Bishop, Christopher W

Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:40 PM
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Subject: FW: DPRK/CHINA: AMCIT BORDER DETENTIONS UPDATE #13
Colleagues, FYI. Today's update includes
From: Arvizu, Alex A

1.4(B)
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Campbell, Piper A
Cc: Toiv, Nora F; Park, Pamela P; Friedrich, Mary K; Russell, Daniel A; Tesone, Mark; Alford, Edward M (Ned); Smith,
Daniel B; Jacobs, Janice L; Kirby, Michael D; Bond, Michele T; Wood, Robert A (PACE); Duguid, Gordon K (PACE);
S_SpecialAssistants; Davies, Glyn T; Kim, Sung Y; Tong, Kurt W; Kim, Yuri); Richardson, Eric N; Ohtagaki, Johna 0;
'Bader, Jeffrey A.'; 'Russel, Daniel R.'
Subject: DPRK/CHINA: AMCIT BORDER DETENTIONS UPDATE #13
DPRK/CHINA BORDER DETENTIONS UPDATE #13
-- April 1, 2009 -CONSULAR ACTIVITY
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None reported.
MEDIA
Press Continue to Follow Case Closely: Press continued to speculate that the DPRK aims to use the two
detained reporters as "leverage" over the United States. Wire services reported comments by the DOS
spokesman in the 3/31 Daily Press Briefing that the USG does not see the detention of the two Americans as
related to any other issues.
Contact: Johna Ohtagaki, EAP/K
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David Schwartz, OCS

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:42 AM
FW: Carter to Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
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From: Whitaker, Kevin M

Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:24 AM
To: SES_4
Subject: Carter to Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
You all may already be aware of this, but former Pres Carter is traveling to the countries in the subject line at the end of
Apr/beginning of May. His Carter Center staff has asked for unclas briefers, which we'll provide. Embassies are involved
to a greater and lesser extent, depending on Carter's desires, in arranging schedules.
Kevin Whitaker
Director
WHA/AND - Office of Andean Affairs
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Abedin, Huma
Fw: Attached letter
SCAN3561_000.pdf
You can't likely read the attachment but it is a long letter to Jim saying he's sorry he has missed Jim's calls (nothing about
mine) and that he is taking job with energy.
Copying huma to print for you.
Cdm
From: Daniel Poneman

To: Steinberg, James B
Cc: Mills, Cheryl D
Sent: Tue Mar 3119:03:48 2009
Subject: Attached letter
Please pass the attached letter to Deputy Secretary Steinberg and Chief of Staff Mills. Many thanks, DP
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:02 PM
Intervention excerpt, as delivered:

"We must also support efforts by the Government of Afghanistan to separate the extremists of al-Qaida and the Taliban
from those who joined their ranks not out of conviction, but out of desperation. This is, in fact, the case for a majority of
those fighting with the Taliban. They should be offered an honorable form of reconciliation and reintegration into a
peaceful society if they are willing to abandon violence, break with al-Qaida, and support the constitution."
CNN excerpt:
QUESTION: And on this reconciliation, bringing members of the Taliban or al-Qaida

SECRETARY CLINTON: Only the Taliban, we never said al-Qaida. We never said al-Qaida. We have no interest in any
kind of reconciliation or any rapprochement by anyone with al-Qaida.
QUESTION: I'm glad you clarified that
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:14 AM
H; Mills, Cheryl D; Sullivan, Jacobi
Re: UNHRC
We are tracking this down.
From: H
To: Mills, Cheryl D; Sullivan, Jacob J
Cc: hdr22@clintonemail.com ; Abedin, Huma
Sent: Tue Mar 31 06:13:26 2009
Subject: Re: UNHRC
Jake--if you have this, pis bring to me. Thx.

From: "Mills, Cheryl D"
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:24:46 -0400
To: Sullivan, Jacob J<SullivanJJ@state.gov>
Subject: Fw: UNHRC
Jake:
Can you get line travelling to get you high side materials for hrc.
We also need a quote for inclusion from her.
Cdm
From: Simon, Jennifer J

To: Barks-Ruggles, Erica J; Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Anderson, Brooke D (USUN)
Sent: Mon Mar 30 21:06:24 2009
Subject: RE: UNHRC
Cheryl,
Tonight I will also send you on the high side the package which has been cleared by DRL, 10, H, L, S/P and D front
offices. Thanks.
From: Simon, Jennifer J

Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:03 PM
To: Barks-Ruggles, Erica J; Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Anderson, Brooke D (USUN)
Subject: RE: UNHRC
Hi All,
"Pasted below is the press statement as it stands. I have spoken with Gordon Duguid to give him a head's up and will
touch base with him first thing in the AM.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Spokesman
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Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 8:55 PM
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Cc: Simon, Jennifer 3; Anderson, Brooke D (USUN)
Subject: UNHRC
Cheryl I understand from Susan that you and she both received word that a decision has finally been made. We have gotten
cleared around the building this evening a package with terrific help from 10 and DRL of a press statement, talking points
and a cable notifying posts of the decision. NSC has cleared as well. We will not launch until tomorrow at 2:00.
As part of the launch plan NSC has asked that we use quotes from Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Rice in the press
statement. We would like to work with whoever is appropriate (Jake and Robert?) traveling with the Secretary to get a
one sentence quote for the statement. Jennifer Simon on our staff will email you the draft statement shortly. Please let us
know with whom we should follow up as we want to ensure we preserve the close hold nature of this process.
Thanks - Erica
(P.S. Ops has left a message for you as well from me - this is the topic - feel free to call anytime if you'd prefer
discussing).
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From: ':Ann O'Leary"
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:14:52 -0700
To: Cheryl Mills
Subject: Re: Goodwin
Thanks, Cheryl.. Goodwin met with Feinstein this evening and it sounds like it went really well.. It was
definitely a very preliminary conversation, but also very good to get the opportunity for Feinstein to meet and
get to know Goodwin.. Thank you and HRC again for all of your help!
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Cheryl Mills
wrote:
Feinstein promised hrc to meet with him and that she would give him primary consideration.
She knows he is imp to hrc and that hrc thinks he us her kind of scholar and judge.
On note - if hand written, send to my home and 1 will hand to her; if electronic - same, email to me and 1 will hand to her
Original Message
From: Ann O'Leary
To: Cheryl Mills
CC: Cheryl Millsl
Sent: Sun Mar 29 01:41:11 2009
Hi Cheryl came back to several messages from Feinstein's office wanting to set
up a meeting with Goodwin.* Sounds like HRC must have spoken with her.* Feinstein wants to meet Goodwin tomorrow evening.
Anything we should know before the meeting?
Thanks again for everything!, Also, Goodwin wants to write a thank you note to HRC.0 Where can he send it so that it gets to her?
xo,
Ann
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434344044 thanks gone to her to make calls today
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4.44404 Thanks, Cheryl.* I'm attaching two different sets of talking points - one for Greg Craig, stressing Goodwin's
progressive and activist credentials - and the other for Feinstein, stressing his moderation.. We have heard that Feinstein needs
assurance that Goodwin isn't too liberal.
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appreciate it and know how much is on
444444. Thanks again for helping in this very major way.,
your plate and HRC's....so thank you, thank you, thank you!
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44444444 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, AnnMOLeary
4$4 444 More of a liberal? I'll do two sets and send it back tonight.
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04440454 Sent from my iPhone
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.444444 On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:57 PM, "Cheryl Mills"
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Greg is an more of an ideologue

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To: Ann O'Leary
To: Cheryl Mills
Sent: Mar 19, 20097:18 PM
What do you think about using the lead sentences in each point only--deleting the narrative
Or is the problem more fundamental?
Then I need a little help about what would go to the heart of greg's interests
From: Cheryl Mills <

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44$444$444$44 Here is my fear about these points - they are likely to repel rather than compel greg; they will
likely work fine for di-fi?

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4444444 4044444 Do you really want her to use them for both calls?
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44444+44444444 To: Cheryl Millsl
.044444 4444444 CC: Judy Lichtman
'4444444444444 Sent: Thu Mar 19 11:48:572009
44440.4 4444444 Subject: Re: Goodwin
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'4444444+444444 Cheryl
4443444.
.444444 .44+044 THANK YOU.* It would be terrific if HRC could make these calls.. If possible, it would be
great if she could also call Feinstein because we are hoping Feinstein will not just bless, but affirmatively support Goodwin's
nomination.
4444.44 .44444.
.0434044 0+44444 I'm pasting the talking points below and attaching them in Word.. I'm also attaching Goodwin's
bio/resume if you need it.
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4444444 44544444 I can't thank you enough!!
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44444444444444 Key talking points for HRC.s calls to POTUS, Greg Craig and Senator Feinstein recommending
Goodwin Liu for a nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
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4404..4 +444+44 44454 Goodwin is a widely respected, first-rate legal scholar. I know this first-hand
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Secretary Clinton, Hi,

Thank you! I am available to talk any time. I would also be happy to come to Washington (or wherever)
to discuss this in person at your convenience.
\ so after 1:30 pm tomorrow would be
safest. My cell is
Yrs, Jackie
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM, H <hdr22@c1intonemai1.com> wrote:

JackieI'd like to talk to you about your choices. Michelle Fluornoy, new Undersecretary at DOD, asked me
about young women who could work w her in planning and whom she could mentor. And, of course, I thought
of you!
When would be good times for me to call you? Best, H
Jacqueline Newmyer
President, Long Term Strategy Group
12 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-661-1620 (ph)
617-661-1626 (fax)
www.ltstrategy.com
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:12 PM
RE: Mexico trip report
Sounds good.
From: H [mailto:hdr22@clintonemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:08 PM
To: Sullivan, Jacob)
Subject: Re: Mexico trip report
Thx. I won't get you revisions until tomorrow.

From: "Sullivan, Jacob J"
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:36:58 -0400
To: <hdr22@c1intonemai1.com>
Subject: Mexico trip report
Attached is a draft of your Mexico trip report to POTUS. I'm also sending it by fax. I look forward to incorporating your
edits.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:37 AM
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Mexico trip report
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Attached is a draft of your Mexico trip report to POTUS. I'm also sending it by fax. I look forward to incorporating your
edits.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:39 PM
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Dangerous Thoughts
Obama's Personnel Problem

Dan Gerstein, 03.25.09, 12:01 AM ET
The especially rocky week that President Obama just experienced has led many political observers to
ask what happened to the fabled discipline candidate Obama showed during the campaign and on
into the transition. How did he and his vaunted political machine go from "No Drama Obama" to
bailout bonus blunders, Tim Geithner death watches and Special Olympic insults in less than two
months?
The easy answer is that circumstances have changed, and there is a lot of truth to that. Governing is
fundamentally different than campaigningparticularly in the pressure cooker of an economic
meltdown. But that's exactly why I would argue that the president's escalating execution troubles are
really a function of what has largely stayed the same since the election--the mismatched,
understaffed team of loyalists around him.
Indeed, as best I can tell, Obama has more than a Geithner problem. He has what I would call a
Rumsfeld problem. That is to say, in the infamous words of the imperious defense secretary, the
president made the mistake of going to economic war with the army he hadwhich was built for
political speed and presidential comfortinstead of the army he needs to beat back the crisis of
confidence that is crippling our markets and feeding the AIG blood lust.
This is not a question of having good personnel. Obama had some of the best minds working in
politics and policy helping him take down Hillary Clinton and John McCain. And it's only natural he
would want to bring many of them into his White House to help run his government, much like most
every modern president has done.
Rather, it's a question of having the right personnel in the right place to make the best case for
Obama's complicated and challenging economic agenda--and perhaps most important, to persuade
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the American people to swallow their anger along with another round of distasteful but necessary
bailouts.
By that measure, if you step back and look at Obama's sales force, it seems pretty clear so far that
the president has the wrong mix of credibility, diversity and sensitivity for this seller's market. That's
true for Treasury, for the White House and, most acutely, across the airwaves.
Geithner, who joined Team Obama on the late side last November, has been the obvious poster child
for this problem. But he is far from alone.
Both Geithner and Larry Summers, who advised Obama during much of the campaign, have proven
to be ineffective and at times damaging advocates for the president's policies. That's in part because
of their uneven communications skills. But the bigger problem, critics on the right and left now agree,
is that these two brilliant experts are too close to the Wall Street elites they are trying to rescue to
procure the pound of contrition the public is demanding in exchange for more bailout money. Hence
the tin ear for AIG's gilded ripoff.
The White House's top talking heads have the opposite limitation: They are too removed from
workings of the financial system to speak credibly about it.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is by all accounts a talented political operative, who shone during the
campaign. But unlike some of his recent predecessors--such as Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry
(State Department) and Bush spokesman An Fleischer (House Ways and Means Committee)--Gibbs
does not have any high-level policy experience. And according to Clinton refugees I know who now
work on Wall Street, Gibbs' lack of financial literacy too often shows in his vague, halting answers to
tough bailout questions. That's not his fault. He's just the wrong fit for this trust-building role.
Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, has a similar knowledge deficit. To be sure, Axelrod is one of
the most intuitive and resonant message meisters in the country, and few are better at doing political
battle on the Sunday shows. But he has never worked in business or government, and just does not
have the facility or standing of a Leon Panetta or even a David Gergen to make the case for a
complex initiative like the bank rescue program the administration unveiled on Monday.
Obama is suffering from not having a Gergen--in more ways than one. Indeed, when it comes to
domestic issues, this White House often appears more a team of radicals than rivals. Forget about a
Republican counterweight in Obama's inner circle--there does not seem to be any evidence even of a
Democratic contrarian among the campaign loyalists and liberal acolytes in the West Wing.
That is to say, the kind of independent thinker who would have pushed Obama to veto the earmarkladen, omnibus-pending bill that wound up making him look like a hypocrite; or to announce a list of
programs the president would be cutting or eliminating before he released his budget to show he was
serious about fiscal balance and discipline. Not to triangulate, but to reanimate the country-over-party
spirit Obama widely inspired last year and to reassure millions of centrist supporters who have
Understandable qualms about the dramatic expansion of deficit spending the president is pursuing.
That lack of perspective is compounded by the lack of people in key positions in major agencies. And
no one has paid a bigger price for that than Geithner, as Obama himself acknowledged in his 60
Minutes interview Sunday. Without any top political appointees in place at Treasury, Geithner had no
one to bail him out on the AIG mess--to make up for his tone-deafness, monitor the bonus process
and prod him to nip the issue in the bud before it could explode into a capital-eating and capitalwasting fireball.
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The obvious solution to these sales force problems would be the kind of major shakeup Clinton
instituted following the collapse of his health care plan and the drubbings Democrats took in the 1994
midterms, which brought in Panetta, Gergen and a handful of other old-hand pragmatists. Some will
say it's too early to press the eject button, but you could just as easily argue that this is not a learning
curve problem that is going to improve with time.
Nevertheless, it's just not realistic to expect Obama to take emergency measures now, especially
after the president unequivocally expressed his support for Geithner and the markets rallied around
the rollout of the Treasury secretary's toxic asset plan. So I would bet on Obama to opt for addition
over subtraction, and, instead of firing his top salesmen, to bring in more fine-tuned and effective
reinforcements to pitch Congress, the press and the public on his behalf.
Ideally, that would mean elevating someone like Paul Volcker, who is currently chairing Obama's
recovery advisory group, into the public face of the president's recovery program. The former Fed
chairman projects strength, confidence and legitimacy in ways that Geithner never could. He is not
tainted by the original Bush bailout packages. And he is clearly the most credible spokesman on
financial matters within the Obama orbit.
Best of all, because Volcker is already on the team, his elevation would be seen as a shift, not a
shakeup, and give Geithner breathing room to do his best wonk work.
The president would also be well-served, as long as the financial crisis is going on, to take some of
the burden off of Gibbs. One option: split the daily press briefings into two. Let Gibbs continue
handling the general part of the briefing, and then bring in a specialist to handle the economic portion
of the program.
Someone like McCurry, the gold standard of recent White House spokesmen; or, as one Clinton alum
suggested, Howard Schloss, a former assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury under
Clinton and now the head of communications for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Splitting the briefing duties may seem a little unconventional. But these are hardly normal times.
Besides, you didn't see the White House press secretary doing the Pentagon briefings during the last
two wars with Iraq.
It's this general posture, more than any specific move, that will most help Obama reduce the drama,
reassert his primacy and, not least of all, avoid repeating the worst mistakes of the Rumsfeld reign.
We know too well what happens when a president sticks with the same ineffective team and the
same failed strategy purely out of loyalty and stubborness.
If this is no time for politics as usual, as the president has rightly said, it should be no time for political
staffing as usual, either. Want policies that work? Get the army you need to win.
Dan Gerstein, a political communications consultant and commentator based in New York, is the
founder and president of Gotham Ghostwriters. He formerly served as communications director to
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and as a senior advisor on his vice presidential and presidential
campaigns. He writes a weekly column for Forbes.
Nora Toiv
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Poll: Clinton has high job approval

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/25/clinton.poll/
(CNN) -- As Hillary Clinton flies to Mexico for a high-level summit, a new national poll indicates seven in 10 Americans are happy with
the job she's doing as secretary of state.
Seventy-one percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday said they approve of how
Clinton is handling her job as America's top diplomat. Fewer than one in four disapprove.
"Nine in 10 Democrats approve of Clinton -- that's no surprise," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "But by a 50 percent to 43
percent margin, Republicans also think she is doing a good job at the State Department. That's an interesting result for a polarizing
figure like Clinton."
The poll's release comes as Clinton teams up with Mexican officials to kick off weeks of meetings intended to find ways to fight drug
violence on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a major increase in security
funding and agent deployments along the border. '--..tWatch what Clinton hopes to accomplish in Mexico
"Since taking office in January, Clinton has been at the White House nearly every day, meeting with President Obama, Vice President
[Joseph] Biden and other members of the Cabinet and national security staff," said CNN State Department producer Elise Labott. "The
secretary maintains close ties with her former colleagues on Capitol Hill and meets regularly with congressional leaders."
The former first lady, senator from New York and one-time primary rival to Obama already has clocked close to 60,000 miles in her first
two trips overseas -- one journey to China, the other to the Middle East and Europe -- since becoming secretary of state in January.
Clinton was met by large crowds and warmly received by world leaders on both trips, although "she met some criticism in Beijing, where
she was criticized for a lower-key approach that seemed to downplay the importance of human rights in the overall relationship with
China," Labott said.
"Her aides said she wanted a new approach to dealing with China's human rights record, including less public criticism and more
private discussions, which may prove more productive in changing Chinese behavior."
Clinton's approval rating is higher than that of her boss: The same CNN/Opinion Research poll put Obama's approval rating at 64
percent, 7 percentage points lower than Clinton's.
Clinton has a couple of advantages over Obama in public opinion today, Holland said.
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"She hasn't had a prominent role in the administration's economic or budget policies," he said. "There haven't been any international
issues that have caused as much outrage as the AIG bonuses. And her name wasn't on the ballot in November, so any partisan
animosity to her that is left over from 2008 is not as fresh in the public's mind."
Clinton's approval rating is also 10 percentage points higher than the one her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, had in March 2005, then
two months into her tenure as secretary of state.
The CNN/Opinion Research poll of 1,019 Americans was conducted by telephone March 12-15. The survey's sampling error is plus or
minus 3 percentage points.
Nora Toiv
Office of the Secretary
202-647-8633
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Abedin, Huma
Jack Keane
Just e-mailed me to say he is at his hotel in San Francisco. If you're available to talk tonight, he's on his cell. Otherwise, I
told him, we'll connect the two of you tomorrow.
Lauren
Lauren Jiloty
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Friday, March 20, 2009 6:02 AM
'Abedin, Huma'; 'Coleman, Claire L'
Talking Points for Call with Sen Feinstein and Greg Craig
HRC talking points on Goodwin - Craig.doc; HRC talking points on Goodwin Feinstein.doc
Attached are two sets of talking points I will have Claire print for you today for two call on behalf of
Goodwin's candidacy for the Ninth Circuit.
The first set is for Sen Feinstein, which stresses Goodwin's moderate judgment she apparently needs
reassurance that Goodwin is not too liberal.
The other set is for Greg Craig, which stresses Goodwin's progressive credentials as he likely will find that
more appealing.
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C05760563 Date: 06/30/2015

Coleman, Claire L <ColemanCL@state.gov>

Friday, March 20, 20098:05 AM

From: Cheryl Mills [mailto:cheryl.mills

Valmoro, Lona J <ValmoroU@state.gov >

Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 03:59:11

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov>

Classified by DAS, A/GIS, DoS on 06/30/2015 Class: CONFIDENTIAL

From: Bishop, Christopher W

From: Arvizu, Alex A

David Schwartz, OCS

Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov>

From: Whitaker, Kevin M

Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCDstate.gov>

From: Daniel Poneman

Abedin, Huma <AbedinH@state.gov>

Intervention excerpt, as delivered:

QUESTION: And on this reconciliation, bringing members of the Taliban or al-Qaida

Abedin, Huma <AbedinH@state.gov>

We are tracking this down.

Jake--if you have this, pis bring to me. Thx.

From: Simon, Jennifer J

From: Simon, Jennifer J

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

DRAFT FOR REVIEW

March )0C, 2009

From: Barks-Ruggles, Erica 3

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Cheryl Mills

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Cheryl Mills

434344044 thanks gone to her to make calls today

Greg is an more of an ideologue

From: Cheryl Mills <

444404* 434.44.4 Cc: Judy Lichtman

likely work fine for di-fi?

Secretary Clinton, Hi,

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM, H <hdr22@c1intonemai1.com> wrote:

Sullivan, Jacob J <SullivanJJ@state.gov>

Thx. I won't get you revisions until tomorrow.

Sullivan, Jacob J <SullivanJJ@state.gov>

Jiloty, Lauren C <JilotyLC@state.gov >

Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov>

Obama's Personnel Problem

Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov >

From: Toiv, Nora F

Poll: Clinton has high job approval

Jiloty, Lauren C <JilotyLC@state.gov >

Cheryl Mills <cheryLmill5

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