Center for American Progress - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Center for American Progress Index / Organizations Transcripts Jocelyn Frye ...and a half years, I am leaving the Center for American Progress at the end of next week, and o... Jordan Brooks ...and then we worked with our friends at CAP [Center for American Progress] and a... ...we worked with our friends at CAP [ Center for American Progress ] and at the Aspen Institute to do som... ...Institute to do some of this work. Oh, CAP was that one. Aspen was later. And th... Anna Deavere Smith ...drew you into your residency at the Center for American Progress , which seems like one of thos... ...he was kind enough to bring me into the Center for American Progress . But I wish that that could have com... Thomas Kalil ...Kalil became a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress , and special assistant to th... John Podesta ...firm. Then in 2003, he founded the Center for American Progress [CAP], a progressive think tank, wher... ...the Center for American Progress [ CAP ], a progressive think tank, where h... ...Let me move ahead and talk about the Center for American Progress , which you founded in 2003. So what'... ...Union] to Human Rights Watch to CAP . I met with them and I said I woul... ...your description of your intentions for CAP , as well as your description of wha... ...that context, somebody once described CAP as a Democratic administration i... ...had about two hundred people working at CAP by then. This didn't happen all a... ...party status quo, and perhaps whether CAP played a role—especially since ... ...was some relationship between him and CAP at that time that maybe dealt with thi... ...an insurgent candidate. Yes. Well, CAP was an open shot. I mentioned thes... ...particularly to the younger people at CAP at the time. I had developed ... ...with him, and we did do work at CAP on some of the reform ideas that he wa... ...relationship. A bunch of people from CAP were in the campaign, too, by then. Ou... ...importantly, Denis McDonough came from CAP to the campaign, who was his lead gu... ...ask you about the relationship between CAP and the transition, and it sound... ...my perspective, in terms of rooting the Center for American Progress , etc., if I didn't go in. And h... ...I mentioned that first conference CAP held; he said it at tha... ...about the relationship between CAP and the administration; because yo... ...because you were still head of CAP during this time period. Did you hav... ...formal or informal interactions between CAP and the administration? Yes. This i... ...law.” And I told—I'm still at CAP ; this was in the second term—this wa... ...was, I think, important to do that. And CAP was always in a position t... ...of the kind of wide-ranging issues that CAP got involved in, is this how you go... ...were understaffed well into 2009. Did CAP play a role in trying to, mor... ...in trying to, more transition work on CAP 's part, kind of post, in order to fil... ...other than the people that were at CAP were going on this government. But w... ...I had transitioned from being CEO of CAP to being, at that point, the chair o... ...who's the current president and CEO of CAP , back from the administration with th... ...still there; I was still working out of CAP . I was doing a couple of differen... ...two bosses. But at that point, I knew CAP was stable. I knew we had a new CEO. ... ...It was the one issue—when I started CAP , we felt that the environmental spac... ...Fund, the Climate Action Campaign as a CAP leader. So it was one of thos... ...of mine. I began, while I was at CAP , to really spend a lot of time o... ...recommendations that were coming from CAP and others, to build up this bi... ...again, we had been working on this at CAP for US-China cooperation—was reducin... ...Goldfuss to run CEQ. She had come from CAP ; she was the deputy director o... ...Park Service. She's now back at CAP ; we work together on climate an... Show more... Bess Evans ...called Giffords—working with the Center for American Progress , working with Everytown, working wit... Andrew Stern ...healthcare?” Then we scheduled, with CAP [Center for American Progress], th... ...Then we scheduled, with CAP [ Center for American Progress ], the famous healthcare debate, whic... ...Walmart, along with Intel, AT&T, the Center for American Progress , and the mainstream group founded b... ...he had been tortured at the SEIU/ CAP first debate that he didn't do so wel... ...a very long time, and we had done the CAP healthcare event. I didn't really hav... ...Like Yeast] 's List, the Sierra Club, Center for American Progress , SEIU, I think the NEA [Nationa... ...group in his role as president of the Center for American Progress , got picked to run the transition, s... Show more... Bruce Orenstein ...Network, or Citizens Action Program, CAP . I came in through being ... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America