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Dec. 5, 2009 - Went to Holiday Party at Sam and Jan Smith Donaldson's home in McLean. Usual warm and enjoyable time. Chris was in Istanbul teaching a course in Bioethics and so I went alone. Usual cast of characters: Colin Powell, General Casey, Ben Bradlee, Lee Hamilton, Antonin Scalia, Nina Totenberg, Bill Plante, John and Debbie Dingle, George Will, Terry McAuliffe, etc. etc.
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Dec. 9, 2009 - Time Magazine came out with a list of the 10 most important Medical breakthroughs of 2009. #2 was an "AIDS Vaccine" (the Thai trial) and #4 was an H1N1 vaccine. Of note, I played a significant role in the development of both of these.
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Dec. 12, 2009 - Wonderful Holiday sit-down dinner party at the Academy of Achievement Town House on 16th Street (Black Tie) hosted by Wayne and Catherine Reynolds. Usual cast of stars at the dinner - Senators, Congressmen, Media, etc. "Mystery" gust entertainer was Tony Bennett. The Reynolds's have been very generous to regularly include us at these functions.
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Dec. 13, 2009 - Holiday Season in full swing with parties, etc. Today parties at Nicki Lurie and Jesse Goodman's; Bill Haseltine's and Hugh and Mimi Auchincloss's. Flu activity really slowing down with sharp drop in cases. More vaccine now available and so push to vaccinate.
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Anthony S. Fauci
Dec. 14, 2009 - Gave big talk at CSIS on new treatment approaches to HIV/AIDS at their headquarters on 18th and K Streets, NW. Evening reception at Stone house for Julio Frenk. Good guy. I knew him slightly when he was Minister of Health for Mexico.
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Dec. 15, 2009 - Much activity at HHS level to get the "team" to work on pushing vaccine since much is now available. HHS is getting anxious (Jenny Backus, Laura Petrou, etc.) about possible "end-of-the-year" news stories that might criticize HHS and USG for doing a poor job with H1N1. Had an interesting 90 minute with Washington Post Editorial Board (Fred Hiatt and Jonathan Capehart) to discuss the response to H1N1. Meeting was me, Peggy Hamburg, Tom Frieden, and Jenny Backus.
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Dec. 17, 2009 - Continuing on with the HHS push to try to get a final positive spin for end of 2009 on our response to H1N1. They arranged a Press Briefing at the National Press Club with me, Secretary Sebelius, Tom Frieden, Peggy Hamburg, Nicki Lurie, Jess Goodman, etc. to explain what we have done in response to H1N1.
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Dec. 24, 2009 - Traditional "great" dinner for my birthday at sister Denise's home. Over the years, Jenny, Megan and Ali have come to treasure this tradition similar to some of the family traditions that Denise and I treasured like dinner over Grandma Abys's home for the holidays. In the AM had my traditional birthday breakfast hosted by Chris and the girls at the Silver Diner on Connecticut Avenue.
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Dec. 30, 2009 - Lunch at the White House mess with Heidi Avery. She is Deputy to John Brennan at the National Security Council at the White House. She is former CIA and Counter Terrorist Unit Chief. She want to talk to me about how we should broadly handle "all threats to the public health" instead of going incident by incident as with pandemic flu. She wanted to speak with me because she heard that I was a visionary about these issues. Very enjoyable conversation. Obviously, WH sources know about me despite the sometimes discouraging relationships that I have had with HHS and their lack of appreciation about who I am and what I have done over the years.