David Plouffe - Obama Presidency Oral History Back David Plouffe Index / People Transcripts Mark Lippert ...Last thing I'll say, humorous, was—and David Plouffe talks about it in his book. Th... John Kerry ...I was dealing with David [M.] Axelrod, David Plouffe , and company before Iowa. I made th... Denis McDonough ...thought it was important, and I think [David] Plouffe and Axe [David Axelrod] and th... ...clear. One is, in the summer of 2008, Plouffe called me into his office and he said... Tom Donilon ...you had people like David Axelrod and David Plouffe . But that was a very small team, an... Michael Froman ...first time I met [David] Axelrod and David Plouffe and Bob Bauer. I was at Bob Bauer's la... Rick Wade ...a follow-up meeting at the time with David Plouffe and Steve Hildebrand, who was then th... ...at my home here in South Carolina, with David Plouffe and Steve Hildebrand, who was deput... ...certainly had my disagreements with David Plouffe , and I'm sure he had his with me, an... Huma Abedin ...Hampshire. But I give full credit to David Plouffe and the Obama team for, from day one... ...then Alyssa, then I'm in touch with David Plouffe . I'm passed from person to person, al... Rob Nabors ...politics out of the negotiating room.” David Plouffe of course called you “our Congres... Jason Furman ...on the ads. I remember, I once went to David Plouffe , the campaign manager after one o... ...I'm really not trying to do it.” And Plouffe said to me, “I know that. I know th... Pete Rouse ...was meeting, it was myself, Axelrod, David Plouffe , Robert Gibbs, Alyssa, Valerie... ...a priority for us, and I my guess is, David Plouffe didn't spend much time thinking abou... ...couple things about Iowa. One, clearly Plouffe and Axelrod and the strategists, we ha... ...just not moving in the polls. I know Plouffe will say that's okay because we'r... ...somebody, whether it was Gibbs or Plouffe or Axelrod or Dan Pfeiffer, o... ...despite good poll numbers, writing to David Plouffe , “There's something about this tha... ...at the end of the day, where Axe and Plouffe and myself and Gibbs, Valerie, Anit... ...let this sit out here.” I think Axe and Plouffe and others did the typical staff thin... ...I was in Chicago, and he called up Plouffe and said, “I want to have a staf... ...this to be true. I said, “Well, look. David Plouffe is doing a great job running th... ...The team of Axelrod, Alyssa, Gibbs, and Plouffe —you couldn't have anybody better... ...I don't remember specifically. I think David Plouffe , obviously, is the person you need t... ...raise? So again, you'd have to talk to Plouffe , in particular, I think, about th... ...The political team, most notably Obama, David Plouffe , David Axelrod, Jim Messina, felt tha... ...Axelrod, the communications director; David Plouffe as the senior advisor and politica... ...central driver of that. I mean, I think David Plouffe , David Axelrod, Jim Messina, Stephani... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Education Education go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Science Science