Democratic National Committee - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Democratic National Committee Index / Organizations Transcripts Dan Pfeiffer ...would be so worked up about. And the DNC [Democratic National Committee], or th... ...be so worked up about. And the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ], or the Obama campaign, or whoever... Patrick Gaspard ...then became executive director of the Democratic National Committee . He left the DNC to become U... ...National Committee. He left the DNC to become US ambassador to Sout... ...traditional trappings of office and the DNC , and trying to figure out how to mak... ...I want to talk about your time at the DNC , but before we move you out of th... ...to stand up the scaffolding around the DNC , which we had to take over, yet again... ...that your brief going into the DNC ? To just get the machinery of th... ...my life between being in DC, at the DNC , and in Chicago, at the campaign. ... ...was your strategy as you go into the DNC to make the 2012 election successful? ... ...in Wisconsin, as you were joining the DNC . How involved were you and the DNC i... ...the DNC. How involved were you and the DNC in those fights that were happenin... ...then became executive director of the Democratic National Committee . He left the DNC to become U... ...National Committee. He left the DNC to become US ambassador to Sout... ...more question, since you were at the DNC and you had been involved in politica... ...I think the decision to merge into the DNC went a long ways to kind of deflatin... ...to house OFA [Obama for America] in the DNC ? Oh my God, there was so muc... ...to strip down the capacities of the DNC and of the party. They were worrie... ...avoiding him. I'm sitting over in the DNC . I have my campaign bonus, and I use... ...I had been such a partisan—running the DNC , the work that I had done in organize... Show more... David Simas ...on point, I had gotten back from the DNC [Democratic National Committee] bot... ...point, I had gotten back from the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ] both quantitative and qualitativ... ...about things. Democratic campaigns, the Democratic National Committee , some of the advocacy groups, thes... ...that you would hear. And so, the Democratic National Committee would have focus groups periodicall... ...I think as I described before, via the Democratic National Committee and obviously our colleagues in th... ...the closeness with the work with the DNC and given the structure that Davi... ...that you would expect. We had the DNC for some of that work and so we wante... ...of the work that I had done with the DNC of listening and data aggregation i... ...of a Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee is as a vehicle to aggregate funds s... ...the D-triple-C, and the DSCC, and the DNC —with the Democratic Party, and I wa... ...the world I lived in. In terms of the DNC itself and the RNC, it had always bee... ...House leadership are not looking to the DNC for anything. Ever. They may want, yo... ...me today that during the period of the Democratic National Committee and Party basically atrophying, Reinc... ...the day after. So, clarity with the DNC and the chairwoman, that even thoug... ...all of the urban legends around the DNC putting their thumb on the scale an... ...end. In the end, when we started to—the DNC would continue to do qualitativ... Show more... Ellen Moran ...has also worked with the DNC [Democratic National Committee], th... ...has also worked with the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ], the DCCC [Democratic Congressiona... ...and fortune to do a project for the DNC where I took a leave from the AFL bu... ...the independent expenditures for the DNC , I had worked with David again, bu... ...well but got to know better through the DNC 's independent expenditures. I thin... Janet Napolitano ...him over those four years since the DNC in Boston? Yes. I had spent some tim... Ben LaBolt ...was a broad effort that went on at the DNC [Democratic National Committee] throug... ...broad effort that went on at the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ] through OFA [Organizing for Action... Sandra Fluke ...2012 Democratic National Convention [ DNC ] and two years later ran for stat... ...trail and then, ultimately, at the DNC . Can you talk about that experience... ...Then I was also asked to speak at the DNC in North Carolina, I guess it was, a... ...time. How did you prepare for your DNC speech? [Laughs] Not far enough i... ...in advance. I was supposed to—the DNC staff talked to me about, did I want t... ...on time. Ultimately, I worked with a DNC staff member in some capacity to craf... ...think, who preps people to speak at the DNC . There's a room where you ca... ...and was very helpful. That week at the DNC , I had a terrible cold. I had a col... ...going to speak on the main stage at the DNC , you're doing a lot of walking i... ...testimony, and then following the DNC he called me to thank me for speakin... ...me to thank me for speaking at the DNC . Both times I feel that I sai... Show more... 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