According to the documents, Clinton’s representatives at the Harry Walker Agency “exerted considerable control over her appearance and managed even the smallest details,” requesting, among other things, a platter of crudité and hummus, a scanner (which UCLA had to buy), and a bowl of lemon wedges backstage.
Other requests include a special chair:
Top university officials discussed at length the style and color of the executive armchairs Clinton and moderator Lynn Vavreck would sit in as they carried on a question-and-answer session, as well as the kind of pillows to be situated on each chair. Clinton’s representatives requested that the chairs be outfitted with two long, rectangular pillows — and that two cushions be kept backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed
additional back support.
Clinton needs a specific type of podium:
During a walk-through of Royce Hall five days before the lecture, the e-mails show, Clinton’s team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30-minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match.
And Clinton absolutely refuses to let anyone place a medal around her neck:
“Chancellor [Gene] Block has agreed to accommodate Hillary Clinton’s request to have the medal presented in a box,” Assistant Provost Margaret Leal-Sotelo wrote in one e-mail.[UCLA administrator Patricia] Lippert replied: “I can either have the jewelers box open or closed, in case the Chancellor doesn’t want to risk opening it.”
It’s not exactly J-Lo’s all-white green room or Van Halen’s infamous brown M&Ms bowl, but a Clinton appearance is well-coordinated: it took an entire year for UCLA to plan the lecture. And her requests are pretty long — you can read them all below.
[The Washington Post]
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