Sorry if this angle has already been covered, but new here and still trying to figure out how to navigate. Anyway, regarding the email about "Chicago Hot Dog Friday" , that was sent May 14, 2009. I figured why not start with the obvious, why did Obama buy 65k in hot dogs from chicago. Was he having some kind of event? Well, went to the Obama White House Archives and to see what his schedule looked like that day/week and of course, the archives stopped about 1 year after this email. The farthest it goes back is July 12, 2010. Not much of an archive if you ask me. Question is, what was Obama doing that day/week?

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog?page=183

Maybe he was having some kind of fundraiser or something, who knows, but this should not be hard to find out, right?