Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Think Tank Quickies (#243)

  • 2020 beginning already with John Kasich speaking at AEI!
  • VP Joe Biden likely to choose university over think tank.
  • Mae Podesta (John Podesta's daughter) was deputy executive director of Clinton's transition team; John Podesta had topped Clinton's short-list for chief of staff.
  • Think tankers among those surveyed in Prime Group's Washington Insiders Survey.
  • CAP's Neera Tanden interviewed by Ben Smith.
  • AEI's Michael Strain has new son.
  • Atlantic Council to host live gray zone pathgame. 
  • Think tanker Kori Schake couldn't be more politically different than her sister. 
  • Matt Schewel: Funeral services for the TPP will be held at 12pm on Jan. 20, 2017...donations can be sent to the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE).
  • USTR Mike Froman does closed lunch at Brookings, hosted by neoconservative Robert Kagan.
  • In January 2012, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy asked RAND to generate national estimates of market sizes for four illicit drugs (cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and meth).