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June 8-18, 2003 - Continued activity and briefings, conference calls concerning the

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Date
2003-06-08 00:00 (day precision)
Type
diary entry · diary
author
Anthony S. Fauci
June 8-18, 2003 - Continued activity and briefings, conference calls concerning the Bioshield Legislation. White House still relying me on pushing the prospect of emerging and reon Iraq with several th Alan Murray and Gloria Borger to mandatory versus discretionary funding for Bioshield. Also a number of network and CNN TV appearances on emerging disease including SARS and monkey pox.

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  1. 2003-05-20 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    May 20 - 27, 2003 - Busy time for Bioshield and giving Commencement Addresses (Emory, Albany Medical, Univ. of MD and SUNY Downstate) and receiving honorary degrees (Emory, Albany, Univ. MD, Yale). Major article (feature piece) on me in the weekend edition of The Financial Times; mostly very flattering with the usual few jealous comments from "unamed sources".
  2. 2003-05-28 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    May 28, 2003 - Historic day. President Bush signs the Authorizing legislation for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the Dean Acheson Auditorium of the State Department. Again, he specifically thanked me in his speech for my work on AIDS and for being there. I was given a "seat of honor" in the first row. In his speech the President used word-for-word the sentence that I composed for him describing the initiative as the "largest single up-front commitment in history to an international public health initiative involving a single disease"
  3. 2003-05-31 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    May 31, 2003 - Extraordinary feature article on me in The Financial Times with full page picture and complimentary story.
  4. 2003-06-08 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    June 8, 2003 - Feature story on me in the nationally syndicated Parade Magazine of The Washington Post.
  5. 2003-06-08 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci
    June 8-18, 2003 - Continued activity and briefings, conference calls concerning the Bioshield Legislation. White House still relying me on pushing the prospect of emerging and reon Iraq with several th Alan Murray and Gloria Borger to mandatory versus discretionary funding for Bioshield. Also a number of network and CNN TV appearances on emerging disease including SARS and monkey pox.
  6. 2003-06-18 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    June 18, 2003 - Went to West Wing of WH to brief General John Gordon the new Director of the WH Office of Homeland Security and Special Assistant to the President for Terrorism. I briefed him on what the NIH Biodefense Research Agenda was. Good guy. We had a nice discussion. Also, delivered a standing room only Grand Rounds at the Lipsett Auditorium on SARS.
  7. 2003-06-19 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    June 19, 2003 - Appeared on a panel at the Council of Foreign Relations with Ted Koppel (Chair), Patti Stonesifer (Gates) and Senator Durbin to discuss "Are we prepared to deal with global pandemics?".
  8. 2003-06-20 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    June 20, 2003 - Appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs show to discuss emerging and reemerging diseases.
  9. 2003-07-02 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
    July 2, 2003 - Attended White House ceremony for the announcement of Randall Tobias as the Coordinator of the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. Randy is former CEO of Lilly. Pres. (as usual) mentioned me and said that it was an honor to have me there. I strongly recommended to TGT that Mark Dybul be appointed in the State Department to the new program to help Joe O'Neill who was clearly emerging as the second in command.

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