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the note
The Mini Note
May 28, 2004

By Marc Ambinder, David Chalian, Anne Chiappetta, Karen Travers, Teddy Davis, Nicholas Schifrin, and Jan Simmonds
ABCNEWS.com

W A S H I N G T O N, May 28, 2004—
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NEWS SUMMARY

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Today, President Bush and Prime Minister Rasmussen meet in the Oval Office and speaks to the press.

Sen. Kerry holds a rally with veterans in Green Bay this morning before heading to Washington, where he speaks to the Congressional Black Caucus.

Ralph Nader is in Vermont today. No word on whether he'll meet with Dean again.

DNC Chairman McAuliffe holds a news conference to critique President Bush's veterans policy.

Also today, U.S. Trade Representative Zoellick signs CAFTA and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Myers delivers the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Tomorrow, President Bush and Sen. Kerry attend the dedication of the World War II memorial, where President Bush will speak, and both deliver the weekly radio addresses. Also on Saturday Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivers the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

On Sunday President Bush welcomes the leadership of Rolling Thunder, which recently endorsed him, at the White House. Sen. Kerry is in Washington with no public events.

On Monday President Bush participates in a wreath laying at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and speaks at Arlington National Cemetery.

The must-reads:

The Kerry campaign's plans to expand the battleground are moving past Louisiana and Colorado next week. Per the AP's Liz Sidoti, when Kerry begins $17 million worth of issue-based advertising on Wednesday, one of the states will be Virginia. LINK

(As Kerry begins advertising in Virginia), the Wall Street Journal Notes that Moody's is rewarding Virginia Gov. Mark Warner for his "hard-won budget victory over anti-tax state and national Republicans, restoring the state's triple-A bond rating yesterday."

CAFTA: "Today's signing of a free-trade deal with five Central American nations brings to three those awaiting Congress's ratification; another with Bahrain isn't signed. Backers have scant hope for final votes, given lawmakers' election-year jitters about job losses. A deal with war ally Australia could pass, but Democrats say the Central America pact is 'on a midnight train to nowhere.'"

Alternative Minimum Tax reform going nowhere because of deficit concerns, the Journal reports.

Washington Wire also picks up on Kerry's new line of attack on Bush, blaming "mismanagement of the war" for high gas costs.

The Wall Street Journal's ed board chides President Bush for not being more candid with Americans on Monday that U.S. overtures to the UN "won't mean any more foreign troops to help us in Iraq." According to the Wall Street Journal, sometimes they think it would be good of Kerry won "just so the Europeans could reject his pleas for help too. The hard but simple truth is that to emerge from Iraq with honor and victory our only real ally is the Iraqi people … . We wish Mr. Bush had proposed a 'two-step' process — keep killing our enemies and organize the elections as soon as possible ourselves … "

The Washington Post's Mike Allen reports that Bush's Thursday health-care event on health care information technology at Vanderbilt "was part of a coordinated effort between the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign to appeal to suburban swing voters who are technologically savvy."LINK

Team Kerry will be rather pleased the Toner/Sanger lead in the New York Times. LINK

"Senator John Kerry mounted a broad new attack on the Bush administration's handling of national security on Thursday by accusing the president of undermining 'the legacy of generations of American leadership' with a foreign policy that has abandoned the alliance-building of the post-World War II era."

And Jodi Wilgoren of the New York Times serves up a truly awesome side dish of the players (and how they play together) that make up John Kerry's foreign policy team. We wonder if Rand Beers, Sandy Berger, Richard Holbrooke, and Jamie Rubin will roll their eyes simultaneously when reading Secretary (oops) Senator Biden's quotes. LINK

Here's a sample: "Mr. Biden follows up their frequent conversations by sending lengthy memorandums and drafts of entire speeches to Mr. Kerry via fax or e-mail. 'I'm not going to go through a campaign where I get filtered through three staff,' he explained. 'If John wants to know what I think, I tell him directly what I think.'"

Some of the Democratic giddiness in the House over the president's sliding poll numbers and the potential to go two for two in special elections this year seems to have rubbed off on the New York Times ' Carl Hulse. He pens a D-trip dream of a story questioning whether (during this 10-year anniversary season of the Republican takeover in that body) history may repeat itself. LINK

In yet another setback to the Boston officials planning for the Democratic National convention, Transportation Commissioner Andrea d'Amato announced yesterday that she would step down at the end of June — less than one month before the convention, the Boston Globe reports LINK

The probably should reads:

At the Green Party's national convention in Milwaukee next month, delegates are faced with a choice. Should they nominate independent candidate Ralph Nader — the man who has shunned them after giving him their nomination in both 1996 and 2000? The AP reports. LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Warren Vieth put in some Buckeye State time after last week's jobs numbers showed Ohio not fully participating in the economic recovery underway. LINK

"Though Ohio's unemployment rate has fallen slightly in recent months, the state is still near the bottom of the economic heap. Though there are signs of life, they may be too little, and too late, to erase the gloom and frustration caused by the state's three-year slide, some analysts say."

Greg Gordon of the Minneapolis Star Tribune curtain-raises Sen. Kerry's trip to Minnesota next week, where he will publicize a "50-state network" of veterans working for his campaign, and will attend a rally of several thousand veterans in the Twin Cities. LINK

American Family Voices/Veterans for Common Sense have produced a documentary, "Honor Betrayed," and a report aimed at veteran voters. The report highlights "morale" and "readiness" problems in the military. LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Peter Wallsten looks at the perks of being the incumbent — Air Force One and the ability to schedule fundraising and campaign events around official appearances. LINK

Ed O'Keefe's Kerry campaign report:

SEATTLE, WASH., May 27 — Just over a week ago, Sen. John Kerry stood before rain-soaked thousands gathered in and around Portland's Pioneer Courhouse Square, and, pointing to an enormous American flag behind him, implored the crowd, "We're all in the same boat here in America, and we need to come together now to lift this country up, not tear it down … We are the can-do people, we are the can-do country, and we need to get the job done."

Kerry borrowed the key phrase from Langston Hughes and for the second time that day asked the throng of cheering supporters to "Let America be America again."

As the Puget Sound rattled in the background of the port of Seattle's Pier 62 on Wednesday, Kerry again turned to a rain weary crowd to declare, "This is the most important election of our lifetime and we need to make a difference. We need to re-claim our own democracy; we need to make government work for people again. I ask you to help us let America be America again and make it America for all Americans."

At one point in a stump laden with calls for a "new conversation with America," the presumptive Democratic nominee even tied the unifying concept to energy independence, the campaign's theme of the day, saying, "As long as we are dependent on oil from other nations, we are not masters of our own destiny; we are not independent, we are not free. I believe the American spirit and the American dream says we need to let America be America again by pushing the curve of science and technology and decide that no young American in uniform ever, ever will be held hostage to America's dependence on oil in the Middle East."

Kerry has invoked the poet's line nine times in nine days lending credence to the Wall Street Journal's David Rogers' theory that Kerry may be building the general election campaign theme many Democrats had hoped would soon appear.

The Senator first used the line in a 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. the Board of Education speech influenced by former Clinton speechwriter Terry Edmonds.

The theme, though not the line itself, had not been uttered since that boisterous downtown Portland rally but in three days back on the campaign trail this week, it has appeared almost every opportunity.

Even Teresa Heinz Kerry got into the act at Seattle fundraiser on Wednesday night, concluding nine minutes of remarks by declaring, "I would like to see America be America again; I would like to see Americans be Americans again."

Kerry has long flirted with the concept of a "conversation with America" though has struggled at times to build a consistent stump message. In February, the "Real Deal" stump speech slowly disintegrated into a mesh of generic themes without a distinct focus.

After the Feb. 10 primaries, Kerry rarely talked of "Benedict Arnold" companies, and it has taken the candidate until recently to discover a comfortable way of discussing the same subject while limiting offense to potential corporate supporters.

Similarly, while "Bring it on" arguably brought Kerry the Democratic nomination crown, the once-signature line now hardly ever makes a public appearance. And, perhaps deemed too confrontational in its former incarnation, when used "Bring it on" is no longer a direct foreign policy reference.

Nevertheless, while Kerry's "conversation" has taken three months to start, for the first time since wrapping up the nomination, the candidate is beginning to look and sound more comfortable with his stump material.

And while rough edges remain, in a recent conversation aboard the Kerry campaign's new permanent plane, a television producer Noted, "(The campaign is) a marathon not a sprint."

The candidate looked up with a smile and concurred in both the direction of senior staff and the traveling press, "That's what I keep telling everyone."

In a Seattle speech kicking off an 11-day focus on national security on Thursday, Kerry looked backward to gaze forward. The Senator quoted Teddy Roosevelt twice, Abraham Lincoln once, his father, Richard Kerry, and an even borrowed a line from the speech Kennedy was set to deliver on the day of his assassination.

Kerry continues the security theme with a morning event in Green Bay, Wis., before flying to Washington for the opening of the World War II Memorial on Saturday and still unannounced Memorial Day plans.

TODAY'S SCHEDULE (all times ET):
—8:30 am: Commerce Department releases the April report on personal income and spending
—9:30 am: Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and European Union Ambassador to the U.S. Günter Burghardt sign an agreement on the exchange of passenger name-record information, Washington, D.C.
—9:45 am: Off-camera gaggle by White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan
—10:00 am: Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks about U.S. foreign policy at the Foreign Press Center, Washington, D.C.
—10:00 am: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers delivers commencement address at US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
—10:30 am: The Security Council holds an open meeting on "complex crises and the United Nations response," New York, N.Y.
—10:30 am: Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe holds a news conference to critique President Bush's veterans policy at DNC headquarters, Washington, D.C.
—10:30 am: U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and Central American trade ministers sign the Central America Free Trade Agreement, Washington, D.C.
—11:00 am: Sen. John Kerry attends a town hall meeting with military families at the National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wis.
—11:00 am: Hedi Annabi, U.N. assistant secretary-general, presents Dag Hammerskjold Medals to families of those who lost their lives while serving in U.N. peacekeeping missions in 2003, New York, N.Y.
—11:00 am: Ralph Nader attends a meeting and has lunch with volunteers, Waterbury, Vt.
—11:00 am: Former Sen. Robert Dole addresses the American World War II Orphans Network meeting at the Marriott, Washington, D.C.
—11:25 am: President Bush meets with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the Oval Office, the White House
—11:55 am: President Bush and Prime Minister Rasmussen speak in the Rose Garden, the White House
—2:30 pm: On-camera briefing by Press Secretary McClellan
—3:00 pm: Secretary Powell delivers commencement address to graduates of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
—6:00 pm: Bush-Cheney 2004 Chairman Marc Racicot and Rep. Jennifer Dunn speak to Republican organizers at the opening of the Washington state campaign headquarters, Bellevue, Wash.
—6:00 pm: Ralph Nader attends a campaign fundraiser, Shelburne, Vt.
—6:30 pm: Sen. Kerry records the Democratic Radio Address, Washington, D.C.
—7:15 pm: Sen. Kerry speaks at the Congressional Black Caucus "Salute to African American Veterans," Washington, D.C.
—10:30 pm: Bush-Cheney 2004 Chairman Racicot delivers the keynote address at the Washington State Republican Party convention, Bellevue, Wash.
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— May 27-30, 2004: Yale University summer reunions for the classes of 1939, 1944, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, and 1989, New Haven, Conn.
— May 27-31, 2004: Libertarian Party National Convention, Atlanta
— May 28, 2004: Deadline for media credential applications for the Democratic National Convention
— May 28, 2004: Deadline for media credential applications for the Republican National Convention
— May 28, 2004: Bush-Cheney 2004 Chairman Marc Racicot keynotes the Washington State Republican Party's convention, Bellevue, Wash.
— May 28, 2004: Deadline for 18 to 24-year-old applicants to submit essays to 2020 Democrats for their contest to select a primetime speaker for the Democratic National Convention
— May 29, 2004: National World War II Memorial dedication ceremony, D.C.
— May 29, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) and Teresa Heinz Kerry's ninth wedding anniversary
— May 29, 2004: Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) keynotes the Rockingham County Democratic Clambake, Portsmouth, N.H.
— May 31, 2004: Memorial Day
— June 1, 2004: Alabama presidential/state primary
— June 1, 2004: New Mexico state primary
— June 1, 2004: South Dakota presidential primary and special election for the state's at-large congressional seat between Stephanie Herseth (D) and fmr. state Sen. Larry Diedrich (R)
— June 1, 2004: Vice President Cheney delivers remarks on the Patriot Act at a Bush-Cheney '04 event, Kansas City, Mo.
— June 1-3, 2004: 77th annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, Washington, D.C.
— June 2, 2004: President Bush delivers Air Force Service Academy's commencement address, Colorado Springs, Colo.
— June 2, 2004: Donna Brazile discusses her new book "Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics" at a luncheon sponsored by the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee at the Yale Club Grand Ballroom, New York City
— June 2-4, 2004: Summit on Obesity presented by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and hosted by ABC News and TIME magazine, Williamsburg, Va.
— June 2-4, 2004: Campaign for America's Future's Take Back America conference, D.C.
— June 2, 2004: MoveOn.org President Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org Co-Founder Joan Blades, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, and Arianna Huffington speak at the Campaign for America's Future's Take Back America Conference, D.C.
— June 3, 2004: President Bush meets with Australian Prime Minister John Howard at the White House, D.C.
— June 3, 2004: Ralph Nader speaks at the National Press Club, D.C.
— June 3, 2004: George Soros, Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), fmr. Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.), and Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) speak at the Campaign for America's Future's Take Back America Conference, D.C.
— June 3-5, 2004: Virginia Republican Party's state convention, Richmond, Va.
— June 3-6, 2004: Yale University summer reunions for the classes of 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1994, and 1999, New Haven, Conn.
— June 4, 2004: President Bush meets with Pope John Paul II, Vatican City
— June 4, 2004: Fmr. Vice President Al Gore keynotes the Washington State Democratic Party's gala banquet honoring Congressman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), Tacoma, Wash.
— June 4, 2004: Labor Sec. Elaine Chao keynotes the Chairman's Dinner at the Virginia Republican Party's state convention, Richmond, Va.
— June 4, 2004: NOW President Kim Gandy, Rainbow-PUSH Coalition President Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee speak at the Campaign for America's Future's Take Back America Conference, D.C.
— June 4-5, 2004: West Virginia Republican Party's state convention, Beckley, W.Va.
— June 4-6, 2004: Washington Democratic Party's state convention, Tacoma, Wash.
— June 4-6, 2004: Campaigns and Elections Magazine sponsors a conference called "The Art of Political Campaigning: Techniques and Strategies to Win Your Upcoming Election," D.C.
— June 5, 2004: 136th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, Elmont, N.Y.
— June 5, 2004: DNC platform committee holds a hearing on national security, Baton Rouge, La.
— June 5, 2004: James Carville keynotes the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Dinner, St. Paul, Minn.
— June 5-6, 2004: President Bush travels to France to meet with President Chirac and to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D Day
— June 6, 2004: Puerto Rico Democratic caucuses
— June 6, 2004: 60th anniversary of D Day
— June 7, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in Los Angeles
— June 7, 2004: Construction begins on the Sheekey Bridge over Eighth Ave. and 34th. St., New York City
— June 7, 2004: Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Willie Nelson, and Billy Crystal perform in a fundraising benefit concert for the Kerry Victory Committee 2004 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
— June 8, 2004: New Jersey presidential primary
— June 8, 2004: Montana presidential/state primary
— June 8, 2004: North Dakota state primary
— June 8, 2004: South Carolina state primary
— June 8, 2004: National George Bush Meetup Day
— June 9, 2004: Construction begins on the foundation and supports for the Sheekey Bridge, New York City
— June 9, 2004: Fmr. Vice President Al Gore attends a birthday celebration for New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Kathy Sullivan, Manchester
— June 9, 2004: Center for American Progress hosts a forum called "Faith and Progressive Policy: Proud Past, Promising Future," D.C.
— June 10, 2004: Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.)'s birthday
— June 10, 2004: President Bush and G-8 leaders meet with the leaders of Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda on Sea Island, Ga.
— June 10, 2004: Bette Midler, James Taylor, John Mellencamp, Jon Bon Jovi, Wyclef Jean, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg perform in a fundraising benefit concert for the Kerry Victory Committee 2004 at Radio City Music Hall, New York City
— June 10-11, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in New York
— June 10-13, 2004: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's national convention, Arlington, Va.
— June 11, 2004: DNC platform committee holds a hearing on the economy and jobs, Columbus, Ohio
— June 11-14, 2004: Oregon Democratic Party's state convention, Portland
— June 11, 2004: RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie speaks at the New Mexico Republican Party's quadrennial convention, Albuquerque
— June 12, 2004: Fmr. President George H.W. Bush's 80th birthday
— June 12, 2004: Indiana Democratic Party's state convention, Indianapolis
— June 12, 2004: Florida Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Westin Diplomat, Ft. Lauderdale
— June 12, 2004: West Virginia Democratic Party's state convention, Charleston, W.Va.
— June 12, 2004: New Mexico Republican Party's quadrennial convention, Albuquerque
— June 12, 2004: Arkansas Republican Party's state committee meeting, Little Rock, Ark.
— June 12, 2004: "41@80" birthday gala celebration honoring fmr. President George H.W. Bush at Minute Maid Park, Houston
— June 12, 2004: Iowa Republican Party's state convention, Des Moines
— June 13, 2004: "41@80" birthday barbeque honoring fmr. President George H.W. Bush at the Bush Library and Museum on the campus of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
— June 13, 2004: Fmr. President George H.W. Bush celebrates his birthday by tandem jumping with the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team
— June 13, 2004: The White House's 2004 T-Ball season kicks off with Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station vs. Bolling Air Force Base, D.C.
— June 14, 2004: Flag Day
— June 14-20, 2004: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' retreat for American bishops, Denver
— June 14, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in New Jersey
— June 15, 2004: Final media walkthrough for the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter, Boston
&3151; June 16, 2004: Drum Major Institute fundraiser honoring Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) with the group's 2004 Drum Major for Justice Award, New York City
— June 17, 2004: Hip-Hop Summit Action Network summit, New Orleans
— June 17, 2004: Paul Stekler's film "Last Man Standing" screens at the SilverDocs AFI Festival, Silver Springs, Md.
— June 17, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in Aspen and Denver, Colo.
— June 17, 2004: Martha Stewart's sentencing, New York City
— June 17-18, 2004: International Executive Board Meeting of AFSCME, Anaheim, Calif.
— June 17-19, 2004: Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) and Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) address the Texas Democratic Party's state convention, Houston
— June 18, 2004: DNC platform committee holds a hearing on education and health care, Santa Fe, N.M.
— June 18-20, 2004: American Constitution Society's national convention, D.C.
— June 18, 2004: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) address the American Constitution Society's national convention, D.C.
— June 19, 2004: DNC Platform Drafting Committe prepares draft report for the full platform committee, Santa Fe, N.M.
— June 19, 2004: Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) headlines the Louisiana Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Baton Rouge, La.
— June 19-23, 2004: SEIU International Convention, San Francisco
— June 20, 2004: First day of summer
— June 20, 2004: Fathers' Day
— June 21-22, 2004: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's non-proliferation conference titled "A New, Effective Non-Proliferation Strategy," Washington, D.C.
— June 21-25, 2004: AFSCME 36th International Convention, Anaheim, Calif.
— June 21, 2004: Assembly of the Sheekey Bridge begins, New York City
— June 22, 2004: Construction of the foundation and supports for the Sheekey Bridge concludes, New York City
— June 22, 2004: Utah state primary including the Republican gubernatorial primary between Jim Huntsman Jr. and Nolan Karras
— June 23, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Calif.
— June 23, 2004, Installation of the platforms, stair towers, tents, and air conditioning for the Sheekey Bridge begins, New York City
— June 24, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in Los Angeles
— June 24, 2004: National John Kerry Meetup Day
— June 25, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) campaigns in New York
— June 25, 2004: Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) keynotes the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Dinner, Des Moines, Iowa
— June 26, 2004: Iowa Democratic Party's state convention, Des Moines, Iowa
— June 26, 2004: European Union summit, Dublin, Ireland
— June 24-27, 2004: Green Party National Convention, Milwaukee
— June 25-29, 2004: U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting, Boston
— June 27, 2004: Annual DeWine Ice Cream Social at the DeWine Farm, Cedarville, Ohio
— June 28, 2004: Partnership for Public Service Second Annual Gala honoring Goldman, Sachs & Co. and fmr. Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.)
— June 28-29, 2004: NATO summit, Istanbul, Turkey
— June 30, 2004: Scheduled date for the transfer of power from the Coalition Provisional Authority to the Iraqi Transitional National Assembly
— July 2-3, 2004: Installation of the Sheekey Bridge, New York City
— July 2-7, 2004: National Education Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
— July 4, 2004: Independence Day
— July 6, 2004: President George W. Bush's birthday
— July 6, 2004: Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Leadership Forum, D.C.
— July 9-10, 2004: DNC full platform committee's "A Plan for America" meeting, Miami, Fla.
— July 9-10, 2004: UNITE HERE Merger Convention, Chicago
— July 10-16, 2004: 95th NAACP annual convention, Philadelphia
— July 13-17, 2004: American Federation of Teachers National Convention
— July 13, 2004: 75th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Houston
— July 13, 2004: National George Bush Meetup Day
— July 14, 2004: Fmr. President Gerald Ford's birthday
— July 16, 2004: Construction of the Sheekey Bridge scheduled to conclude, New York City
— July 19-23, 2004: National Conference of State Legislatures' annual meeting and exhibition, featuring appearances by Donna Brazile and Bill Kristol, Salt Lake City
— July 19, 2004: RNC's New York City Host Committee scheduled to hand over the keys for the Farley Post Office Building and the Sheekey Bridge to the Republican National Convention, New York City
— July 20, 2004: North Carolina state primary
— July 20, 2004: Georgia state primary
— July 22, 2004: National John Kerry Meetup Day
— July 26, 2004: Final report due from the 9/11 Commission
— July 26, 2004: Target start date for the 108th Congress' August recess
— July 26, 2004: Hip-Hop Summit Action Network summit, Boston
— July 26-29, 2004: Democratic National Convention, Boston
— Aug. 3, 2004: Missouri state primary
— Aug. 3, 2004: Kansas state primary
— Aug. 3, 2004: Michigan state primary
— Aug. 5, 2004: Tennessee state primary
— Aug. 9, 2004: National George Bush Meetup Day
— Aug. 10, 2004: Colorado state primary
— Aug. 10, 2004: Georgia state primary
— Aug. 10, 2004: Connecticut state primary
— Aug. 14-29, 2004: Summer Olympic Games, Athens, Greece
— Aug. 19, 2004: Fmr. President Bill Clinton's birthday
— Aug. 21, 2004: Hip-Hop Summit Action Network summit, St. Louis
— Aug. 24, 2004: Oklahoma state primary
— Aug. 24, 2004: Alaska state primary
— Aug. 26, 2004: National John Kerry Meetup Day
— Aug. 27-28, 2004: Arkansas Democratic Party's state convention, Little Rock, Ark.
— Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2004: Republican National Convention, New York City
— Aug. 31, 2004: Florida state primary
— Sept. 1, 2004: Targeted opening of the CNN studios in the Center at Columbus Circle, New York City
— Sept. 2-5, 2004: American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago
— Sept. 6, 2004: Labor Day
— Sept. 7, 2004: Target end date for the 108th Congress' August recess
— Sept. 7, 2004: Arizona state primary
— Sept. 7, 2004: Nevada state primary
— Sept. 8-11, 2004: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, Washington, D.C.
— Sept. 11, 2004: Patriot Day
— Sept. 11, 2004: Delaware state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: National George Bush Meetup Day
— Sept. 14, 2004: New Hampshire state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: Wisconsin state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: Washington state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: Vermont state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: Massachusetts state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: Minnesota state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: New York state primary
— Sept. 14, 2004: District of Columbia district primary
— Sept. 16, 2004: Rosh Hashanah
— Sept. 22, 2004: First day of fall
— Sept. 23, 2004: National John Kerry Meetup Day
— Sept. 24-25, 2004: Christian Coalition's Road To Victory conference, D.C.
— Sept. 25, 2004: Yom Kippur
— Sept. 28, 2004: Fmr. Vice President Al Gore and fmr. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) take part in Southern Methodist University's Linda and Mitch Hart Lecture moderated by David Gergen, Dallas
— Sept. 30, 2004: Proposed presidential debate at the University of Miami, Miami
— Oct. 1, 2004: Fmr. President Jimmy Carter's birthday
— Oct. 1, 2004: Target adjournment for the 108th Congress
— Oct. 3, 2004: Rev. Al Sharpton's birthday
— Oct. 5, 2004: Proposed vice presidential debate at Case Western University, Cleveland
— Oct. 8, 2004: Proposed presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
— Oct. 8, 2004: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)'s birthday
— Oct. 11, 2004: Columbus Day
— Oct. 12, 2004: National George Bush Meetup Day
— Oct. 13, 2004: Proposed presidential debate at Arizona State University, Tempe
— Oct. 16, 2004: Early voting begins in New Mexico
— Oct. 16, 2004: Ramadan begins
— Oct. 19, 2004: Early voting begins in Florida
— Oct. 21, 2004: Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
— Oct. 23, 2004: Scheduled start of the 2004 World Series
— Oct. 28, 2004: National John Kerry Meetup Day
— Oct. 31, 2004: Daylight savings time ends
— Nov. 2, 2004: Election Day
— Nov. 5, 2004: President George W. Bush and Laura Bush's 27th wedding anniversary
— Nov. 11, 2004: Veterans' Day
— Nov. 17, 2004: Fmr. Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.)'s birthday
— Nov. 18, 2004: Official opening of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Ark.
— Nov. 25, 2004: Thanksgiving Day
— Dec. 4, 2004: Louisiana congressional runoff
— Dec. 7, 2004: Hanukkah begins
— Dec. 11, 2004: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)'s birthday
— Dec. 21, 2004: First day of winter
— Dec. 23, 2004: Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark's birthday
— Dec. 25, 2004: Christmas Day
— Jan. 6-8, 2005: Southern Political Science Association conference, New Orleans

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