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An aide to then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) recommended she meet the chief of staff to then-Sen. Barack Obama during a visit to Washington, and Palin was "game to meet him."

"When you and the Governor are in Washington. Jerry Reinwand recommends that you hook up with a guy named Pete Rouse," Palin's deputy legislative director Chris Clark wrote in February 2007 to Palin and her chief of staff, Mike Nizich. "Rouse was once chief-of-staff for then-Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller. He's now chlef?of-staff [sic] for a guy named Barack Obama."

"I'm game to meet him," Palin wrote back.

Rouse is now a counselor to President Obama and was his interim chief of staff after Rahm Emanuel resigned from the job to run for mayor of Chicago.

The February email is part of a larger document dump of more than 24,000 emails from Palin's term as governor that was released by the state of Alaska on Friday.

A number of news organizations ha! d been trying to get access to the documents since 2008 but have been unable to read them until today.

Several of the news organizations are posting the documents online.