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Oct. 26, 2008 -- Received Maxwell Finland Award from the IDSA and gave the ICAAC Award Lecture at the Annual ICAAC\IDSA meeting at the DC Convention Center on "Global Health and infectious Diseases: A Look to the Future". It was amazing. There were 11,000 people in the audience! Clearly the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to live even counting all of the Keynotes lectures that I have given at many International AIDS Meetings. Lecture very well received. Next day (Oct. 27) went with Chris to the IDSA and ICAAC president's reception at the American Portrait Gallery on 8" Street and F Street, N.W. beautiful crisp (55 F) clear Fall days for both occasions.
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Oct. 30, 2008 -- Farewell ceremony for Elias Zerhouni as NIH Director. I gave a strong laudatory for him (see my printed speeches). Much speculation that I will be next NIH Director. Interesting -- 6.5 years have gone by since I was faced with this same choice and the best decision that I made was to say no to George Bush. So many good things have happened to me professionally since then. I doubt that I want to do it.
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Nov. 4, 2008 -- Barack Obama will be our new POTUS!! Everyone excited about this. We spent elective night at a party next door with Rob Stein and Ellen Perry and some friends (Dan and Gigi Green -- former ABC Producer of Nightline and others). Stock Market crashing -- no one seems to know when bottom will come
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Nov. 8, 2008 -- I presented an award post-humously to Paul Rogers at an Arthritis Foundation black tie gala. Steve Lawton (his longtime
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Nov. 10, 2008 -- Stock market still crashing -- no end in sight. Big Federal bailouts of banks and credit companies to the tune of $1 trillion and more; yet slide continues.
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Nov. 14, 2008 -- I receive the "FREDDIE Award" for Public Service (known as the Oscars for medical media) from MediMedia at a Philadelphia Gala at the Crystal Tea Room in the old Wannamaker Building. Chris, Megan, Ali, Stewart Simonson, Cliff Lane, Patty Conrad, and her friend Betsy Wilder were there. Big surprise was that Bono made a video that was shown in which he lauded me as a true global hero and one of the most important people in the world over the past many decades. Very flattering and in keeping with how kind Bono has been to me over the years.
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Nov. 18, 2008 -- Received the VIDA Award for Leadership from the National Hispanic Health Alliance at the Willard Hotel in DC.
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Nov. 19, 2008 -- Tom Daschle named as DHHS Secretary. I will soon be approached for NIH Director job. Am struggling with this, but my commitment to HIV/AIDS and Global Health, particularly with the new exciting issues of "treatment as prevention" and the challenges of an AIDS vaccine , not to mention malaria and TB keep me engrossed in what I am doing.
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Nov. 20, 2008 -- NIAID sponsors the Annual Kinyoun Lecture. This year's speaker was Ralph Steinman who won the Basic Medical Research Lasker Award in 2007 at the time that I won the Lasker Public Service Award.