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*[image: Inline image 1]* *Correct The Record Monday August 25, 2014 Morning Roundup:* *Headlines:* *The Atlantic: “Inside the Democrats' Plan to Save Arkansas—and the Senate” <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/inside-the-democrats-plan-to-save-arkansasand-the-senate/379028/>* [Subtitle:] “The party's desperate bid to hang onto the majority rests on an unprecedented political organizing effort in red states like this one.” *BuzzFeed: “Hillary Clinton Ignores Questions On Ferguson” <http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-ignores-questions-on-ferguson#2wwn3q7>* “Surrounded by a retinue of aides and members of her security detail, Hillary Clinton left a book signing on Sunday afternoon as two reporters asked questions about the protests in Ferguson, Missouri.” *Politico: “On Ferguson, no words from Hillary Clinton” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/hillary-clinton-ferguson-110301.html>* "The event began early, with a crowd lined up along the street well in advance. Clinton received what has become a standard number of entreaties to run in 2016 from people who moved along the line to shake her hand and have their books signed." *Tampa Bay Times: “Rep. Paul Ryan promotes book, talks Hillary Rodham Clinton and 2016 in Brandon” <http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/us-rep-paul-ryan-visits-brandon-to-promote-book-talk-2016/2194455>* “Despite only a few dozen people showing up to his book signing at Books-A-Million in Brandon on Sunday, the 44-year-old House budget chief managed to project the upbeat and optimistic attitude he prescribes in his new book, The Way Forward, which is part memoir and part manifesto for how the GOP can win national majorities again.” *Politico: “Secrets of the Clinton Library” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/secrets-of-the-clinton-library-110289.html>* “Six months after the National Archives began releasing long-withheld Clinton White House documents, thousands of pages of the most sensitive records are still not yet public. But hints of their contents emerged during a POLITICO recent review of the gaps in the library’s public files.” *NBC News: “Point of No Return: Democrats Want Definitive Signal from Hillary Clinton” <http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/point-no-return-democrats-want-definitive-signal-hillary-clinton-n187201>* “If she ends up deciding not to jump in, Democrats want an answer sooner rather than later.” *Washington Post: “Republican Comstock’s past a political touchstone in Va. congressional race” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/comstocks-past-emerges-as-political-touchstone-in-congressional-race/2014/08/24/d8738bd6-24ab-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html>* “Today, Comstock is making a name for herself as a state lawmaker and the Republican nominee to replace Wolf, who is retiring from his Northern Virginia seat. And her history as a Clinton foe carries a new resonance in a state likely to factor heavily should Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016.” *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column: David M. Shribman: “Hillary Clinton and the price of being on top” <http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2014/08/24/David-M-Shribman-Hillary-Clinton-and-the-price-of-being-on-top/stories/201408240064>* “Right now the campaign is akin to walking on heels across concrete in an empty room. Once other candidates are in the race — and some surely will join—that room will have some carpeting and it will no longer be empty.” *Articles:* *The Atlantic: “Inside the Democrats' Plan to Save Arkansas—and the Senate” <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/inside-the-democrats-plan-to-save-arkansasand-the-senate/379028/>* By Molly Ball August 24, 2014, 7:00 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] The party's desperate bid to hang onto the majority rests on an unprecedented political organizing effort in red states like this one. PINE BLUFF, Arkansas—No sign announces the purpose of this little storefront, squeezed between a Bestway Rent to Own and a Rent-a-Center in a dilapidated shopping center. But the words hand-lettered in black and red marker on three pieces of paper taped to the window—"Register to Vote Here"—and a cluster of placards for candidates give it away: It is a Democratic Party field office. Democrats aren't advertising this office and 39 others like it that are scattered around Arkansas—in fact, their locations are a closely guarded secret. When I visited last week, having tracked it down through creative public-records sleuthing, I took Chita Collins, the field organizer on duty there, by surprise. But I wanted to see the evidence of what Democrats have been claiming they're building in states like this one, and what could be crucial to their uphill quest to keep the Senate: an Obama-style community-organizing effort of unprecedented scale for a non-presidential election. The office in Pine Bluff is a cavernous, mostly empty space. Six full-time, paid staff work out of the unit, which is open seven days a week. Long tables line the right side of the room; three staff offices—messy and largely uninhabited thanks to some recent water damage—line the back. A long list of rules scribbled on a paper tacked to the wall begins with these two bullet points: "Goals are mandatory. Meetings are mandatory." Another handwritten sheet bears a quotation from Barack Obama: "Yes we can." Every weekday morning and evening, this space fills up with volunteers. Some stay in to make phone calls; others are sent out with a list of addresses to knock on doors, looking for voters. (On weekends, the effort intensifies.) Weeks like this, when it's 95 degrees out with 50 percent humidity, it is punishing work, but they have been at it for months, and they will not stop until November. "Oh yeah," says Collins, a friendly Pine Bluff native in her 40s, when I tell her I'm trying to confirm this field organization really exists. "We real." This year, Arkansas is home to one of the nation's most intense Senate races, as incumbent Democrat Mark Pryor faces a challenge from a first-term congressman, Representative Tom Cotton. Like many of this year's competitive Senate contests, it features a Democratic incumbent desperately trying to survive in deeply hostile territory—in this case, a state Mitt Romney won by 23 points, or more than 250,000 votes. Other seats Democrats are trying to hold onto are in similarly tough states such as Alaska, North Carolina, and Louisiana. To beat the odds, across the country Democrats have mounted an ambitious political organizing effort—the first attempt to replicate the Obama campaign's signature marriage of sophisticated technology and intensive on-the-ground engagement on a national scale without Obama on the ballot. The effort is particularly noticeable in states like Arkansas and Alaska, which have small electorates and which haven't been presidential battleground states for a decade or more. (In 2004, John Kerry initially tried to compete in Arkansas, but pulled out of the state three weeks before the election and lost it by 10 points.) In Arkansas, campaigns traditionally begin after Labor Day; this year, the airwaves have already been blanketed with campaign ads, from both the candidates and deep-pocketed outside groups, for months. The Democrats' Arkansas organizing effort kicked off with a canvass on June 7. "People were saying, 'Robert, the election's six months away! What are you doing?'" Robert McLarty, the director of the Arkansas Democratic Coordinated Campaign, tells me. "We are starting from a blank slate. People here have never seen what folks in Ohio and Pennsylvania are used to every year." Throughout the entire 2010 election the party recruited 1,210 local volunteers; that number was surpassed in the first 30 days of this year's effort. Seventy percent of the volunteers recruited so far have never worked for a campaign. They have registered more than 6,000 new voters. The Democrats believe there is an iceberg-like mass of latent votes that are theirs for the asking but have simply never been mobilized before. That the Republicans don't have an office in Pine Bluff isn't surprising—there aren't a lot of Republican voters here. Arkansas's ninth-largest city, an impoverished, crime-ridden burg of about 50,000 people, is predominantly African American and sits in one of the 10 of Arkansas's 75 counties that went for Obama in the last election. Pine Bluff is exactly the kind of place from which Democrats need to extract more voters if they want to reshape the electorate. On my way out of town, I saw one of the most depressing signs I've ever seen, a mortuary touting its bargain prices: "Complete Funeral $2,490." Republicans say they, too, are mounting a massive, never-before-seen effort in Arkansas, part of the Republican National Committee's vow to beef up the party's ground game and technological efforts post-2012. Last week, the RNC's chairman, Reince Priebus, visited Little Rock and touted the party's work. "We call it 'Victory 365': our plan to be everywhere, all the time, nonstop, ground game, data, and being obsessed with the mechanics," Priebus told reporters at the Cotton for Senate headquarters on the top floor of a Regions Bank building. While some might consider such nitty-gritty work boring, he said, "I happen to believe races are won and lost on the ground. They're won and lost now with data, infrastructure, and technology." Republicans now have 11 offices open across Arkansas, party officials told me, all of them staffed by field organizers. They have recruited "hundreds" of volunteers, and the RNC has had staff here for almost a year. This effort is indeed bigger than anything the party previously built in this state. "We clearly have the largest mobilization we've had in my memory, which is pretty good," the state GOP chairman, Doyle Webb, tells me, crediting the RNC for stepping up its game. "We've been waiting for the cavalry, and now it's here." But the Republicans' effort pales in comparison to what the Democrats have built: Democrats are spending more than five times as much money in Arkansas, and have four times as many field offices and triple the number of staff. In the month of July alone, the Arkansas Democratic Party reported nearly $900,000 in federal campaign spending, while Arkansas Republicans reported $155,000. (Most of the money the Democrats are spending has come directly from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.) Democrats listed 64 staffers on their payroll; Republicans listed 22. The RNC claims it has 50 people on the payroll in Arkansas, including some being paid by other GOP committees, but I could not find a record of them and staffers on the ground were not aware of them. According to public records, there are Democratic staffers in places like Cabot (population 24,000), Marion (12,000), Arkadelphia (11,000), and Dardanelle, Tom Cotton's hometown, with fewer than 5,000 residents. Republican candidates also have organizing help from Americans for Prosperity, the conservative nonprofit supported by Charles and David Koch, which has sought to build its own ground game separate from the Republican Party. Many Arkansans told me the group had the state's most visible canvassing effort. It has five full-time staff on the ground in Arkansas and offices in Little Rock, Jonesboro, and Rogers, spokesman Levi Russell told me. But AFP can't work directly with the Republican Party, meaning the party has no control over its efforts. And there are indications AFP's Arkansas efforts aren't meeting their goals. A memo written by a fired AFP Arkansas consultant that was leaked to Mother Jones in April lamented "declining tea party engagement" that was diminishing the group's pool of activists. If, as many believe and some studies have shown, the Starbucks-like proliferation of swing-state campaign offices and staff helped Obama win in 2012, Republicans appear to be in danger of being organizationally overmatched once again. Democrats believe the ground game has powered them to victory in unlikely circumstances in the past. In 2010, the year of the Obama backlash and the Republican tsunami, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet managed to buck the tide and win by a narrow margin after his campaign invested heavily in data-driven field operations—a daring choice that went against the traditional campaign's reliance on advertising. (Bennet, who chairs the senatorial committee, is the brother of The Atlantic's editor in chief and co-president, James Bennet.) Inspired by Bennet's success, in 2012, Democrats built large field operations in Montana and North Dakota, two red states untouched by the presidential candidates. Turnout in those states exceeded the national average, and Democrats won both states' Senate races even as Obama lost both states by wide margins. This year marks Democrats' attempt to roll out the program on a national scale. Dubbed the Bannock Street Project, after the Bennet campaign's Denver headquarters, it will, by the time the election is over, comprise a 4,000-employee, $60 million effort in 10 states. The voter-contact metrics recorded in each state are uploaded in real time to the Washington headquarters of the senatorial committee. While such efforts are commonly described as turnout operations, Matt Canter, the committee's deputy executive director, says there's more to it than that. "This is about much more than [get-out-the-vote]," he tells me. "This is not just identifying supporters and turning them out. This is actually building sustained voter contact programs through multiple face-to-face conversations that can persuade voters to change their minds and vote Democrat." Democrats believe they have a technological edge in their ability to use data to model and target voter preferences. Republicans, who have invested heavily in technology since 2012, are working to catch up. But on a basic level, turning out voters relies on the simple arithmetic of the application of resources—bodies on the ground, close to their communities, tirelessly recruiting volunteers who will work to activate their neighbors and family and friends. On a recent evening in Little Rock, two retirees—Jim Hickman, a former social worker, and Susan Hickman, a former psychiatric nurse—were pulling their regular weekly phone-calling shift along with 21 others at the campaign office. Lifelong Democrats, the Hickmans are regular volunteers for the first time. Jim uses his personal cell phone in hopes of getting more people to answer, but very few do. "The answering machine rules," he says. Of those who do pick up the phone, many either have no idea what's on the ballot or have already made up their minds. But Hickman hopes he is making a difference. "At least I sleep better," he says. "I go as long as my battery lasts." *BuzzFeed: “Hillary Clinton Ignores Questions On Ferguson” <http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-ignores-questions-on-ferguson#2wwn3q7>* By Ruby Cramer August 24, 2014, 4:54 p.m. EDT [Subtitle:] The former secretary of state has not commented on the shooting of Michael Brown or the subsequent protests. WESTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Surrounded by a retinue of aides and members of her security detail, Hillary Clinton left a book signing on Sundayafternoon as two reporters asked questions about the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Clinton ignored them, exiting the bookstore through a backdoor. Last week, Rev. Al Sharpton, the New York City preacher, called on Clinton and another possible presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, to speak out on the violence in Ferguson. “Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton,” he said, “don’t get laryngitis on this issue.” But in the two weeks since the police shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager, Clinton has not commented on the unrest in the St. Louis suburb. On Sunday, she stayed quiet again, sticking to her routine at the signing at Books & Books, a shop on the main drag of this hamlet in the Hamptons. The event capped off a two-month publicity tour to promote her memoir, Hard Choices. This month, Clinton and her husband have decamped to Amagansett for vacation. She is scheduled to appear at several Democratic Party fundraisers and at a campaign event in Iowa next month, Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry. Clinton’s team added the Westhampton stop to her schedule just last week. A staffer at Books & Books said they started preparing for the event last Monday. The owner, Jack McKeown, said he’d been trying for six months to schedule an event with Clinton. McKeown, who is also the former head of Clinton’s publishing house, Simon & Schuster, told reporters he was able to get the signing on her calendar after running into an old mutual friend: Bob Barnett, the Washington lawyer who represents Clinton and negotiated her book contract. *Politico: “On Ferguson, no words from Hillary Clinton” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/hillary-clinton-ferguson-110301.html>* By Maggie Haberman August 24, 2014, 4:33 p.m. EDT Hillary Clinton ignored reporters’ questions about the racial conflict in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday at the end of a book-signing event in Westhampton Beach, a vacation enclave near her rented summer house. Clinton, the potential 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful who has been vacationing in the Hamptons since the first full week of August, has not yet commented on the situation in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, where an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown was killed by a police officer two weeks ago. Since then, there have been protests marked by arrests and clashes with police, and a national debate about race and the militarization of police departments. Two reporters called out questions to Clinton about her thoughts on Ferguson after she had wrapped up at Books & Books on Main Street in Westhampton Beach, a store owned by former Simon & Schuster executive Jack McKeown. (Simon & Schuster is the publisher of her new book, “Hard Choices.”) Clinton ignored the questions and kept walking toward a rear entrance of the book store. The Rev. Al Sharpton, at a rally in Ferguson last weekend, pushed toward the future, calling on all the 2016 potential candidates, including Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush, to comment on the situation. Clinton is the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Few other Democrats have publicly called for a comment from Clinton on Ferguson, and some Democrats have said there is a danger of further inflaming a tense situation by weighing in. It was Clinton’s second book signing in New York’s Hamptons. The first was a week earlier, on a Saturday. The event had been heavily advertised for three weeks. The Westhampton Beach event, by contrast, was added only last Monday, officials with the store said. McKeown said he had been seeking Clinton for six months, and that he was mainly able to make it happen because of his longstanding relationship with Robert Barnett, the Washington lawyer who has negotiated her book deals. Westhampton Beach, an earthier summer enclave compared to the high-end feel of East Hampton, was prepared for the event, with police handling crowd control outside the store an hour before the 2 p.m. signing began. The event began early, with a crowd lined up along the street well in advance. Clinton received what has become a standard number of entreaties to run in 2016 from people who moved along the line to shake her hand and have their books signed. One man asked her for her campaign contact. Clinton, who has said she has yet to decide whether she’s running, replied, “Oh, I don’t have a campaign yet.” *Tampa Bay Times: “Rep. Paul Ryan promotes book, talks Hillary Rodham Clinton and 2016 in Brandon” <http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/us-rep-paul-ryan-visits-brandon-to-promote-book-talk-2016/2194455>* By Adam C. Smith August 24, 2014, 7:12 p.m. EDT BRANDON — Republicans need not be cowed by the prospect of taking on Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016, said U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, one of the leading Republican contenders to do just that. "She's very formidable. She'll raise a lot money, she has a lot of name ID," the Wisconsin native and former Republican vice presidential nominee said during a stop in Tampa Bay to promote his new book. "But I think Hillary Clinton is very beatable because a Hillary Clinton presidency is basically the same thing as an Obama third term. I don't think she'll be able to shake that." Despite only a few dozen people showing up to his book signing at Books-A-Million in Brandon on Sunday, the 44-year-old House budget chief managed to project the upbeat and optimistic attitude he prescribes in his new book, The Way Forward, which is part memoir and part manifesto for how the GOP can win national majorities again. "We need to be that happy warrior inclusive party that appeals to people based on their common humanity, based on their aspirations, based on opportunity and growth. That means we have to take this message everywhere to all communities and show people why our ideas are better for them and their families," Ryan said in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times. There is no sign that Ryan is veering away from his longtime advocacy for cutting spending on programs that benefit middle- and lower-income Americans while reducing taxes for wealthier Americans. President Barack Obama hammered him and presidential nominee Mitt Romney for that approach during the 2012 campaign, but Ryan contends the party can still broaden its tent and diversify its support without compromising on core conservative ideas. That includes making the fight against poverty a top priority. "We have an obligation to have smarter and more effective ways of fighting poverty given that we are losing the war on poverty 50 years into it," said Ryan, who stopped at nine bookstores in north and central Florida over three days to promote his 304-page volume. "The point is to attack the status quo and to have a different approach to fighting poverty and totally reorienting the federal government's role." Unlike other 2016 prospects, such as Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ryan has not been assembling a team of likely presidential advisers and says he will not decide about running until 2015. The decision will be based on his family and the field of candidates, he said. Clinton is the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination if she runs, while the Republican field is much more competitive. The average of recent polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.com shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie drawing 11.5 percent support, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush 10.8 percent, Paul 10.3 percent, Ryan 9.3 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz 8.8 percent, Texas Gov. Rick Perry 8.3 percent and Rubio 7.5 percent. Asked about the Florida GOP heavyweights, Ryan said Bush and Rubio are "absolutely cream of the crop, top-tier leaders who would make great candidates or presidents." He and Rubio have been mutual admirers since early 2010 when Ryan became the first U.S. House leader to endorse Rubio for U.S. Senate over then-Republican Charlie Crist. "The party was upset because Crist was their backed guy," but after meeting with both candidates, Ryan said it was clear Rubio was "head and shoulders above" Crist. Democrats had promised protesters at every Ryan book-signing stop, but the only hint of that in Brandon occurred when Wesley Chapel resident Ray McCullough, 61, handed Ryan a book to sign and asked him about plans to cut retirement benefits for seniors. Ryan assured him he is not advocating any cuts for people close to or currently in retirement. *Politico: “Secrets of the Clinton Library” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/secrets-of-the-clinton-library-110289.html>* By Josh Gerstein August 25, 2014, 5:01 a.m. EDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It is a lingering mystery of Bill Clinton’s White House: the genesis of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that gay groups came to revile. But soon, this and other secrets that remain hidden away here at the Clinton Presidential Library may be unlocked. What did the Justice Department say about all the random requests for pardons? What kind of advice came from Clinton staffers such as now-Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan? What strategic thoughts were offered to the president and first lady Hillary Clinton on terrorism, Whitewater and health care reform? And what’s the library been holding back about Vince Foster? Six months after the National Archives began releasing long-withheld Clinton White House documents, thousands of pages of the most sensitive records are still not yet public. But hints of their contents emerged during a POLITICO recent review of the gaps in the library’s public files. To see document-by-document descriptions of what remains unreleased, one has to venture in person to the gleaming silver library alongside the Arkansas River. Most visitors go for the presidential limousine and the cart selling “I miss Bill” memorabilia before heading upstairs, taking in the Oval Office replica and the saxophone that candidate Clinton played on “The Arsenio Hall Show.” But ask at the reception desk and a National Archives staffer will be summoned to escort you through a secure hallway to a wing of the library complex that houses 78 million pages of White House records and about 20 million emails — most of them stored on a couple of underground floors of the complex. Less than 5 percent of the records have been processed for release. Internal National Archives files obtained by POLITICO show that the threat of publicity seems to have been a factor in getting some of that material out this year, nudging forward a painfully slow process involving the Archives, President Barack Obama’s lawyers and Clinton’s team — all of whom play roles in dictating the pace and sequence of releases. Three days after POLITICO inquired with the White House in February about why none of the so-called previously withheld records had been released more than a year after the legal authority to withhold them expired, White House lawyer David Sandler emailed the Archives, approving the release of tens of thousands of pages of documents. The very next day, Clinton representative Bruce Lindsey signed off on disclosing the same batch of records — a trove so large that it has taken the library months to organize and post online. So while the Obama White House decides on clearing the release of all of the roughly 33,000 records, here’s our rundown of the most intriguing still-unreleased files from the Clinton Library: 1) Gays in the military For gay rights advocates, the Clinton years were complicated. Far and away, up to that time, he was the president who was friendliest to the gay and lesbian community. But he also put in place policies that took nearly two decades to reverse, such as the Defense of Marriage Act and “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Set for release soon from the Clinton archives are detailed notes of a key meeting where DADT was born. National Archives records obtained by POLITICO show plans to release: “Thirty-four pages of handwritten notes taken at a Jan. 25, 1993, meeting to discuss the issue of gays in the military between President Clinton, Vice President Gore and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” Clinton, Al Gore and their top advisers are said to have discussed “their personal viewpoints of homosexuality” (choice vs. genetics). The politics of gay rights have changed so abruptly in recent years that some of the views expressed privately on the subject could sound outdated or even offensive to many Americans. The papers could support or undercut Clinton’s claims that he was assured the new policy the military was considering would result in gay soldiers not being investigated unless they explicitly disclosed their sexuality. 2) The pardon feeding frenzy The last-minute pardon of billionaire financier Marc Rich became one of the most infamous moments of Clinton’s presidency, sullying the president’s reputation as he walked out the door. Less well-known or remembered is the feeding frenzy of clemency applications that flowed into the White House in the weeks before Clinton left office. The list of individuals relaying pardon requests is a who’s who of prominent Democratic Party figures. Rosalynn Carter requested a pardon for Patty Hearst, citing her “exemplary life for more than 20 years now.” Former DNC Chair Donald Fowler urged a pardon for ABSCAM “victim” ex-Rep. John Jenrette (D-S.C.). Clinton friend Vernon Jordan sent in a pardon request for a New York fertility doctor serving time for health care fraud. (The physician happened to be Marc Rich’s ex-wife’s boyfriend.) Michael Brown, son of the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, unsuccessfully sought a pardon for boxing champion Riddick Bowe. (The junior Brown now needs one for himself. The former D.C. Council member is now serving a 39-month sentence after pleading guilty in a federal corruption sting.) Many of the requests are already public. What’s set to emerge in the coming weeks are the recommendations Clinton got from the Justice Department and his own staffers, including the pros and cons of the most sensitive pardons. Some of the soon-to-be-released papers appear to relate to cases tied to Hillary Clinton, like the commutations her husband granted to four Hasidic Jewish leaders from New Square, N.Y., a few months after they held a meeting with her as part of her Senate bid. A federal prosecutor investigated that clemency case and others but never filed charges. 3) Vince Foster The Clinton Library has never released its key files on the death of Vince Foster, a White House attorney and former law partner of Hillary Clinton. Foster killed himself in July 1993 as he was handling various controversies that enmeshed the Clintons in their early months at the White House. The event was emotionally scarring for many in the Clintons’ circle and fueled numerous conspiracy theories. Now, many Foster-related files are set to be disclosed, including a note from White House counselor David Gergen with Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann about turning over Foster’s suicide note to the U.S. Park Police. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation found it took the White House 30 hours to advise the police about the note, which staffers said was overlooked in initial searches of Foster’s office. At the time of Foster’s death, he was deeply involved in responding to a lawsuit filed against Clinton’s Health Care Task Force. One previously secret document is listed this way in Clinton Library files: “Photcopy [sic] Note from Vincent Foster to Hillary Rodham Clinton [Re: Health Care Task Force lawsuit] (1 page).” Of the half-dozen other handwritten notes Foster saved, several are set for release, but — fueling unending conspiracy theories — several of his other writings are still slated to be withheld on privacy grounds. National Archives and Records Administration records obtained by POLITICO also indicate the forthcoming files include “White House personnel opinions on what to do about disclosure” relating to the Foster saga as well as legal memos about strategies to fight Freedom of Information Act requests seeking White House records about Foster’s death. 4) Crackdown on militias? The 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City led to a smattering of legislative proposals, including efforts to streamline application of the death penalty and criminalize support for foreign terrorist groups. However, the Clinton White House also pressed into two areas that are highly controversial today and sure to raise the hackles of tea party types and the National Rifle Association: enhancing government surveillance powers and regulating armed groups of U.S. citizens. Records set for release show the Clinton administration gave serious consideration to seeking a law that would crack down on “paramilitary” organizations by setting up a “strict licensing system” for the provision of military-style training, according to library records obtained by POLITICO. After lawyers raised concerns that some of the proposals could violate the Constitution, Clinton political adviser Dick Morris was among those who counseled Clinton on how he could press forward against the “militias,” a summary of the files says. Ultimately, Clinton didn’t seek a militia control law but did propose greater legal authority to obtain phone records (call it metadata if you must) as well as hotel, airline and bus details. Most of what he proposed became law within a couple of years and was broadened further under the PATRIOT Act following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. 5) The presidency may change, but the players stay the same The Clinton files — including the documents still to be released — are replete with appearances by individuals who are now at the highest levels of the Obama administration. The Sylvia Mathews who was involved in searching Vince Foster’s office following his death? That’s the current secretary of Health and Human Services: Sylvia Mathews Burwell. The Elena Kagan who wrote memos about Paula Jones’ lawsuit against President Clinton? She’s now a Supreme Court justice. The Jennifer O’Connor who dealt with many of the complaints about the structure and legality of Hillary Clinton’s health care task force? The same Jennifer O’Connor who served as a scandal-managing lawyer for the Obama administration, first at the IRS, the HHS and now at the White House. The National Security Council lawyer Caroline Krass, who opined on the constitutionality of collecting embassy employee DNA? She’s now the general counsel of the CIA. Many of the Clinton-Obama transplants now have private advice they gave or received set to become public in short order. 6) White House Travel Office affair One of the earliest “scandals” to plague the Clinton White House, the decision to abruptly terminate the entire staff of the office that organizes travel for the White House press corps and others accompanying the president on official trips became the subject of intense scrutiny. In a draft memo released in 1996, a top White House aide said there would be “hell to pay” if then-first lady Hillary Clinton’s wishes to clean house at the office were ignored. She had suggested that a firm close to the Clinton campaign take over the office. Earlier, public statements by the White House downplayed Hillary’s role, but the White House’s full records on the controversy — including legal advice on how to respond to questions about the first lady’s actions — have never been made public. About 2,000 pages of records were withheld from an investigating congressional committee on executive privilege grounds. Now, many of those records are set for release. 7) Whitewater Notably absent from the recent Clinton Library releases: any of the more than 56,000 pages the White House maintained on the Clintons’ Whitewater land deal and the years of investigations it gave rise to. The Archives will soon break the seal on what it describes as “legal advice from Janet Reno on executive privilege,” along with “many letters and papers to and from counsel pertaining to fact-gathering, what is going on with the investigation, responding to requests and strategy as well as key points on Whitewater for press conferences.” Despite the plan to make some sensitive Whitewater documents public, other letters and memos related to Whitewater could remain under wraps for some time. Archivists classified those files, including memos prepared by Clinton lawyer David Kendall and letters from late Whitewater figure Jim McDougal, withheld on privacy grounds as opposed to the confidential advice provisions that have expired. 8) Betsey Wright (keeper of the Clinton self-oppo file) Of all the figures in Bill Clinton’s circle from his Arkansas days, none provokes as much curiosity and suspicion as Betsey Wright, the Clinton adviser known for developing the file of opposition research that outsiders might turn up on Clinton— particularly the many rumors of affairs. At least one Wright email is set to emerge soon: Sent to a White House political aide in 1996, the email appears to relate to Whitewater and was gathered by Kagan in response to a subpoena from Independent Counsel Ken Starr. 9) How long will a SCOTUS nominee live? With President Barack Obama talking about forthcoming vacancies on the Supreme Court, speculation is fueled about the health of the court’s current justices. But there is less public discussion of how health issues affect the consideration of potential Supreme Court nominees. In 1994, Clinton seriously considered naming federal appeals court judge Richard Arnold to the Supreme Court but opted against it because he’d been treated for lymphoma. The White House’s blunt internal deliberations on the issue, which have never been made public, are set for release. The records include “several different doctors discussing Arnold’s health and predicting how long they expect Arnold to live,” according to an Archives summary obtained by POLITICO. Hillary Clinton reportedly pushed hard in favor of Arnold, but her husband eventually tapped Stephen Breyer for the slot. The soon-to-be-released files contain such sensitive information about Arnold’s health and reputation that they would not ordinarily be made public, even though the statutory legal protections for White House deliberations have expired. Those details are being made public because Arnold died in 2004 from complications of the lymphoma he’d struggled with for decades, lessening the weight given to privacy concerns. 10) Health care reform constitutionality Long before Obamacare, there was Clintoncare — sometimes known as Hillarycare. It never became law, but lawyers still had to prepare to defend it. That task fell to Walter Dellinger and other top lawyers at DOJ who drafted memos like “The Constitutionality of Health Care Reform.” Dellinger said earlier this month that his work focused on whether “a proposed national health board constituted an impermissible delegation of legislative authority, as well as questions about claims regarding taking of private property and “whether Congress had authority to enact the entire bill under the commerce clause.” While Obamacare’s individual mandate has survived its Supreme Court challenge, opponents of the law will be looking to see what chinks the Clinton legal team saw in the legal foundation of health care reform and whether any of those arguments could be brought to bear against the Affordable Care Act. 11) Collecting federal employee DNA In the wake of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a State Department review panel recommended that the U.S. government collect DNA samples from all U.S. Embassy personnel overseas. An email and handwritten notes show the Clinton White House struggled with the privacy and legal implications of building a database containing the DNA profiles of U.S. government workers. The plan ultimately was dropped. *NBC News: “Point of No Return: Democrats Want Definitive Signal from Hillary Clinton” <http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/point-no-return-democrats-want-definitive-signal-hillary-clinton-n187201>* By Mark Murray August 25, 2014 Analysis: Hillary Clinton isn’t simply dipping her toes into the 2016 presidential waters; it looks more like she’s sizing up for a somersault – with a full twist – off a diving board. But if she ends up deciding not to jump in, Democrats want an answer sooner rather than later. In the past few months, Clinton has concluded a big book tour with dozens of news interviews; distanced herself (either in small or substantial ways) from her party’s currently unpopular president; and is now heading next month to Iowa, which traditionally holds the first presidential nominating contest. What’s significant about all of this activity, Democrats say, is that the more she walks and talks like a presidential candidate – effectively freezing out any other Democrats even contemplating a run – the more difficult it becomes to turn around and say no. “The longer it goes, the harder it becomes for her not to run, unless there is a significant reason she can't,” says Democratic communications strategist Karen Finney, an MSNBC contributor. “A ‘no’ has to come earlier than a ‘yes,’” adds another Democratic strategist, who wished to remain anonymous. “If it's a no, I suspect she won't let it drag on.” The question is timing, of course. Some Democrats believe she has until early next year to state she’s NOT running. Others believe that it should come before or after the midterm elections. “Secretary Clinton can freeze the Democratic field as long as she wants, but I would suspect she and her team aren't interested in dragging it out any more than anyone else,” says Stephanie Cutter, a former top aide to President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign. “ I think she has until early 2015 to make a decision.” While all of her steps since leaving her position as secretary of state suggest plans for a presidential run beginning next year, there also have been doubts she might not run. Has all the scrutiny over her news interviews (“dead broke!” “distancing herself from Obama!”) made her think twice about running for president in a media environment that has changed considerably since her last presidential run? Does she simply want to be a grandmother now that daughter Chelsea is expecting her first child? After all, deciding to run for the presidency could be a 10-year endeavor – two years running in 2016, four years in a first term and another four years if re-elected. Earlier this year, Politico reported that two of Clinton’s closest advisers (Cheryl Mills and Maggie Williams) were against her running. Yet since then, all the signs – the book tour, the distancing from Obama (either real or perceived), the Sept. 14 visit to Iowa with her husband – all point to a White House run. And that has done two things. One, it has frozen the Democratic field. According to data compiled by U.S. News & World Report, Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley; and former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer have made a combined 12 trips to Iowa and New Hampshire since the beginning of 2013. By comparison, Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Texas Gov. Rick Perry; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., have made nearly three times as many visits – a combined 30. Those visits give a potential presidential candidate more exposure and name identification with voters. Two, it possibly opens Clinton up to blame from Democrats if she passes on a presidential run and if Republicans win the White House in 2016. The logic: Clinton freezing the field didn’t give prospective Democrats enough time to grow their national profile. But Democrats caution that such blame wouldn’t be fair unless she waited until March or April of 2015 to say “no.” By contrast, a “no” by the end of the year, or early next year, would still give Democratic candidates times to build an organization and higher name ID. Yet there are others who believe that all the attention on Clinton has actually benefitted Democrats who might want to take her on, even if she does run. “I used to think she was freezing potential 2016ers out, but I believe that all of her missteps over the last few months – on her enormous personal wealth, on the border crisis, and on foreign policy – have created a bigger opening than ever for someone to challenge her,” says a Democratic strategist eyeing the emerging 2016 field. Still, a fellow Democrat mounting a challenge to Clinton would be against all odds. Polls have shown the former first lady and secretary of state crushing all other Democratic opponents. And that’s why, if she is going to pass on a presidential bid, Democrats want a clear signal sooner rather than later. *Washington Post: “Republican Comstock’s past a political touchstone in Va. congressional race” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/comstocks-past-emerges-as-political-touchstone-in-congressional-race/2014/08/24/d8738bd6-24ab-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html>* By Antonio Olivo August 24, 2014, 5:23 p.m. EDT [Subtitle:] The candidate touts her bulldog aggression, while opponents consider her a partisan wet blanket Barbara Comstock was a young aide to U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) 21 years ago when she was assigned a constituent’s complaint about the White House that would eventually grow into the roiling political scandal known as Travelgate. The duty propelled Comstock into a role that would last for years — Republican foil to Democrats Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton through many of the big scandals that engulfed them: Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, impeachment. Today, Comstock is making a name for herself as a state lawmaker and the Republican nominee to replace Wolf, who is retiring from his Northern Virginia seat. And her history as a Clinton foe carries a new resonance in a state likely to factor heavily should Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016. Comstock is trying to rally the Republican base with critiques of the former secretary of state’s handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. And she peppers her remarks with recollections of her anti-Clinton advocacy during the 1990s. But Comstock’s Democratic opponent, John W. Foust, is seizing on her résumé, too. Clinton herself was featured in a recent online ad for Foust that calls Comstock “a professional Clinton hater” who is “hellbent on smearing Hillary Clinton.” And several former Clinton aides are helping Foust characterize Comstock as an unrelenting conservative partisan. In other words, Clinton-bashing is no longer a surefire way to rally voters in a state that rejected both of Bill Clinton’s bids for president but that, last fall, elected as governor one of the Clintons’ closest confidants, Democrat Terry McAuliffe. How the Clinton-Comstock narrative plays with voters in the 10th Congressional District could say a lot about how much Virginia has changed and whether the commonwealth is ready to embrace a Clinton run for president. “I think this will be a fascinating case study,” said Nathan Gonzales, deputy editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report. “Comstock was uniquely involved in the Clinton-era investigations, and Democrats think this is an opportunity to portray her as too partisan for the district.” *‘She was a capable person’* It all began in May 1993, when the Clintons were still settling into Washington and seven career staffers in the White House Travel Office were summarily fired. The ensuing national drama included a federal trial on embezzlement against the travel office director that ended in acquittal, allegations of political cronyism and fraud against the Clintons, and the suicide of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster. Comstock, now 55, said the Clinton-era investigations she helped oversee and her later success in conducting opposition research on other Democrats illustrate the effectiveness she can bring into Congress. For some audiences, she also isn’t shy about recalling her work in a more partisan light. During a Republican primary debate last spring, Comstock said, “We made criminal referrals to the Justice Department when the Clinton administration stonewalled us on campaign finance investigations, the $6 million worth of fraudulent payments they had received, and I can go in and do that with Benghazi.” Wolf recalled that Comstock’s assignment to look into what was initially an angry constituent phone call was somewhat random. “She did a good job,” he said in an interview. “Whatever is coming in, whoever handles it depends on who is available. She was picked because she was a capable person.” Comstock’s opponents see a direct line from her role back then to what they argue is the extreme partisanship among Republicans in Congress. Foust’s campaign — noting that he was coaching soccer during the ’90s while she was investigating the Clintons — cited Comstock’s support of conservative issues in Richmond and her work lobbying for such conservative activists as the Koch Brothers as proof that she is a partisan soldier. “People like Comstock, when they get to Washington, their focus is on destroying the opposition as opposed to working across the aisle to get things done,” Foust said in an interview. “Washington doesn’t have to be as dysfunctional as it is, but if your mind-set when you go there is to destroy the opposition, then things will never improve.” When the Travelgate scandal first erupted, Comstock worked on child-care and health issues for him. Eventually, those duties expanded to include federal employee issues, which Wolf, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, took an interest in on behalf of a constituency heavy with government workers. Her probe into the Travelgate controversy — which Republicans argued was a scheme engineered by Hillary Clinton to put an Arkansas-based friend in charge of the travel office — got Comstock hired in 1994 as chief investigative counsel to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. There, she delved into Bill Clinton’s fundraising history. Later, she became a fierce advocate for impeaching him. *A shifting stronghold* And all of it continues to play out in the 10th District today, once a Republican stronghold but now a hotly contested region stretching from McLean to the Shenandoah Valley. Fliers passed out to 10th District voters by a political action committee called South Forward — chaired by Don Fowler, the head of the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton years — calls Comstock “part of the culture of corruption in Richmond and D.C.” South Forward is based in South Carolina and typically focuses on local elections in Southern states, but Comstock’s presence in the 10th District race has drawn the committee to action in Northern Virginia. “She is the face of everything we believe is wrong with the Republican Party,” said Jay Parmley, South Forward’s executive director. Republican bloggers criticized the group’s involvement as an act of vengeance against Comstock, who targeted Fowler in a 1999 probe into fundraising by the Clinton-Gore campaign. “I can understand why Mr. Fowler may have an ax to grind against her because he was basically run out of town,” said Norman Leahy, a conservative online columnist for several publications, including The Washington Post. Fowler scoffed at that charge, noting that the Justice Department cleared him of all accusations. Nonetheless, he said, “I’m delighted, delighted that we went into it, and I hope that we’re successful.” Comstock said the investigations she conducted were never partisan, particularly Travelgate. “It was more that these guys had all been wronged,” she said. Wolf, too, said it wasn’t about politics. “She was very intelligent,” he said. “Barbara was an important part of my staff.” More than 20 years later, that’s how some of the former travel office staffers still see it. Gary Wright, 72, said the income he lost by being forced into an early retirement required him to take a job as a corrections officer for a North Carolina state prison. “My attorney told me I went from the White House to the big house,” said Wright, who is now retired. Though their legal bills were eventually picked up by the federal government, the outcome “put a financial hurt on me,” Wright said. Billy Ray Dale, the former director of the travel office, said it took years for him to recover from the trauma of being tried in federal court on embezzlement before he was acquitted with the help of character-witness testimony from several prominent members of the White House press corps. During a 32-year career that stretched back to the days of John F. Kennedy, “nobody had ever tried to get rid of us,” said Dale, 77. “We worked for Republicans and Democrats alike, and it never got political.” He now lives in rural Virginia, he said, and considers himself an independent. *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column: David M. Shribman: “David M. Shribman: Hillary Clinton and the price of being on top” <http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2014/08/24/David-M-Shribman-Hillary-Clinton-and-the-price-of-being-on-top/stories/201408240064>* By David M. Shribman August 24, 2014, 12:00 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] She has a clear field in the presidential preseason, but the perils of tripping are high. The NFL preseason still has a few days left. The 2016 presidential preseason still has a few months left — for every candidate but Hillary Rodham Clinton. For Ms. Clinton, familiar to Americans as first lady, senator from New York and secretary of state, there is no preseason. She’s been at the center of American attention for almost a quarter-century. No American woman in our history has been so prominent for so long, with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt, who was in the public eye for 29 years but who held no elected office. Susan B. Anthony was involved in women’s issues for 55 years but for many of those years operated beyond widespread attention. Frances Perkins served as labor secretary throughout the entire FDR administration — one of only two Roosevelt Cabinet members to do so — and into the Truman administration but, apart from serving on the Civil Service Commission, largely faded from view afterward. Ms. Clinton has not faded — indeed her national profile has only become more vivid — since she stood beside Bill Clinton 23 years ago this fall as he announced his candidacy for the White House. Every statement she utters makes news. She doesn’t get to try out her lines in private, or before 18 people without cell-phone cameras in the lobby of the Hotel Ottumwa 75 miles downstream from Des Moines, the way her putative rivals do. It’s a great advantage — and a great disadvantage. The advantage is that she is by far the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, with a position more commanding than any non-incumbent candidate at least since Walter F. Mondale in 1984, perhaps since Adlai Stevenson in 1956. She will have money at hand, and attention wherever she goes. For the next several months her very presence — as a candidate if she becomes one, as a professed non-candidate until she withdraws — keeps others from the race, and keeps dollars from potential rivals. The disadvantage is that when she says she and her husband were dead broke when they left the White House, or when she appears to seek distance from President Barack Obama and then appears to try to close the gap, she does so in the full glare of the public spotlight. All that helps explain a very curious wrinkle in public-opinion polling that is evident in the latest survey from the well-regarded Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. That survey shows Ms. Clinton in two completely unremarkable positions: supported ardently by Democrats, opposed virulently by Republicans. In other years important political figures have had performances that did not merit the adverbs (ardently, virulently) and thus have had cross-party appeals. But there is less of anything that appears across party lines today, so maybe the importance of that is smaller than it might otherwise appear. The Marist survey shows Ms. Clinton defeating former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida by 7 percentage points, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey by 6 points, and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky by 4 points. These are relatively small margins, especially this early in the political cycle, especially since there breathes hardly a soul over 18 who has never heard of Ms. Clinton while the other three could walk undisturbed through just about any shopping mall in America outside their own states — and a few inside their home states. But that is not what should be worrisome to Ms. Clinton’s strategists. This is: Her support among independent voters — who count in some primary states but not all, but who are potentially decisive in general elections — declined against each of those potential rivals. Indeed, that margin has declined by 10 points against Mr. Bush and 9 against Mr. Paul. “She’s upped her visibility with her book tour and some of her misstatements, and that has shaken loose a few independents,’’ explains Lee M. Miringoff, who directs the Marist poll. “For a while the idea of her as a presidential candidate was abstract. Now people are getting a taste for what a second Hillary candidacy might be like.’’ That first campaign — a pioneering effort by a female candidate — was upended by the kind of inflexibility that did not allow for the entrant of another pioneer, the first mainstream black candidate, nor for the importance of caucus states, which Mr. Obama focused on and captured while Ms. Clinton’s forces fought with each other and concentrated on primary states. Ms. Clinton’s 2008 campaign is regarded as an astonishing series of missed opportunities and squandered potential. All presidential races are different, and all comparisons are specious. Mr. Mondale’s presence in the 1984 race, for example, did not chill others from becoming presidential candidates the way Ms. Clinton’s presence has. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. of Ohio jumped in the race, and for a while he presented an important challenge to the former vice president. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado entered the contest, and though he operated below the political radar for many months, he emerged a winner in New Hampshire and nearly won the nomination himself. In the unusual circumstances of 2016, political professionals are trying to measure just how effective a candidate Ms. Clinton can be in a race that appears to offer her a clear field, a situation much different from 1984. She has every element — an organized, disciplined mind, a broad network of potential appointees, comprehensive knowledge of the world and familiarity with world leaders — of being a good president. In that regard she has a profile much like that of George H.W. Bush. But she might have another characteristic attributed to the older Mr. Bush. She may be a superb potential president but an awkward, perhaps even halting, candidate. The problem with American politics since the beginning of the 20th century is that the qualities that make a political figure a good campaigner do not necessarily make him or her a good president. Ms. Clinton can take some comfort from the notion that as the lone contender in the Democratic presidential race all of her moves, especially missteps, prompt an outsized reaction. Right now the campaign is akin to walking on heels across concrete in an empty room. Once other candidates are in the race — and some surely will join—that room will have some carpeting and it will no longer be empty. Even so, the perils of tripping are greater for her than for any other candidate. That’s the price of being on top. *Calendar:* *Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official schedule.* · August 28 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit (BusinessWire <http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140702005709/en/Secretary-State-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Deliver-Keynote#.U7QoafldV8E> ) · September 4 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit (Solar Novis Today <http://www.solarnovus.com/hillary-rodham-clinto-to-deliver-keynote-at-national-clean-energy-summit-7-0_N7646.html> ) · September 9 – Washington, DC: Sec. Clinton fundraises for the DSCC at her Washington home (DSCC <https://d1ly3598e1hx6r.cloudfront.net/sites/dscc/files/uploads/9.9.14%20HRC%20Dinner.pdf> ) · September 14 – Indianola, IA: Sec. Clinton headlines Sen. Harkin’s Steak Fry (LA Times <http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-tom-harkin-clinton-steak-fry-20140818-story.html> ) · October ? – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for House Democratic women candidates with Nancy Pelosi (The Hill <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/215410-clinton-to-fundraise-with-pelosi-in-october> ) · October 2 – Miami Beach, FL: Sec. Clinton keynotes the CREW Network Convention & Marketplace (CREW Network <http://events.crewnetwork.org/2014convention/>) · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton keynotes the UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner (UNLV <http://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-foundation-annual-dinner?delta=0>) · October 14 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes salesforce.com Dreamforce conference (salesforce.com <http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF14/highlights.jsp#tuesday>) · December 4 – Boston, MA: Sec. Clinton speaks at the Massachusetts Conference for Women (MCFW <http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/>)