And this is the more important one. (otherwise Q would have posted to an earlier e-mail in the exchange… this is in the actual e-mail that was sent)
Full text of the subject e-mail:
We are all focused on getting diversity and we have to get there. But we also have a lot of big jobs to fill in the next few months and I think we have to try to slow down our process.
We have a handful of people right now and given the leaks that are occurring in the last week, I actually think we have to shut down the process now to the 1-2 essential posts that need filling soon and build the diverse team we need from there.
These stories will only matter/hurt us if we keep pushing hard and get too much chatter out there.
I think we have to settle on what roles need to be filled immediately and limit our activity to that. If we can create a "silent period" for a couple of weeks and possibly slow down the press appetite we can buy ourselves some space to fill in the team we want and need. This would starving the beast instead of feeding it.
I think as we continue to search, we have to one person assigned to each post, talking to only the people we need to talk and expand that search process when we run into a dead end. It seems clear that multiple people talking to multiple people is not a strategy for containment and containment has to be a top priority for the next six weeks I think.
We face risks with either approach but I think we have seen what happens when we're all reaching out and I don't' think that's getting us where we want.
This whole e-mail thread took place in the evening of Jan 13, 2015 (the subject e-mail was early in the morning of Jan 14).
The original e-mail in the exchange was from Mandy Grunwald @ Grunwald Communications:
>Should we do a call tonight?
>Calls will be heavy tomorrow, I imagine.
What was Jan 14, 2015 in the context of the campaign? (or, what happened Jan 13 that would have caused "heavy calls" on the 14th)?
I will (maybe) answer my own question.
https:// www.c-span.org/video/?323688-1/hillary-clinton-white-house
JANUARY 13, 2015
Hillary Clinton and the White House Authors and journalists talked about the possibility of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016 and and some of the hurdles she might face in a second presidential campaign. They discussed her career in politics, and who might also run for the presidency in 2016