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Mar. 21, 2011 - Was invited by the Bush family to a Kennedy Center event which was "The Points of Light Institute TRIBUTE - All together Now - A Celebration of Service". Bush 41 sent me a hand-written note thanking me for my meager $150.00 donation. At the event were Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Clinton gave an amazingly moving talk about his friendship and love of Bush 41. Entertainment was terrific: Garth Brooks, Kid Rock, Cee Lo Green, Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, among others. Brought back very fond memories of my interactions with Bush 41 as well as other Presidents during the past 30 plus years.
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Mar. 29, 2011 - Appeared on the Colbert Report. Great success! Had a great time and received hundreds of e-mails and calls and personal mention of how good the performance was. Reason for the appearance was the approaching 30th anniversary of first cases of AIDS.
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April 7, 2011 - Gave World Health Day remarks at PAHO for Secretary Sebelius.
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April 10, 2011 - Dinner at Mark Dybul and Jason Claire's home at 1340 Wallach Place, N.W. with Tom Sietsema (Washington Post Food Critic), Zeke Emanuel, Chris, etc.
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April 12, 2011 - Gave Solomon Berson Lecture at Mt. Sinai in NYC - "30 Years of HIV/AIDS: A Personal Journey". Got prolonged standing ovation. Will be stressing this in coming weeks as we approach June, 2011
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April 15, 2011 - Went to Charlottesville, VA to see Danny Hultzen pitch against Duke. He was great. 7 innings shutout.. ERA now 1.19. Sure thing for 1st Round MLB draft pick
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May 1, 2011 - Navy Seal Unit 6 kills Osama Bin Laden in a compound right next to a Pakistani Military base is Abbottabad. Big rift now between USA and Pakistan sine we believe they were either incompetent or knew all along where he was.
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May 11, 2011 - Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing for the 2012 NIH budget. Really bad budget times with the feeling that we are doing really well with only a 1.9% increase from 2011 for the PB. Republicans (most Tea Party people) trying to cut discretionary spending back to 2008 level, which would be devastating for NIH. Francis Collins trying to push the NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translational Science). I think this is a big mistake ("everybody wants to be somebody"). This is no time to initiate this, but some of the pols, some in the scientific community who are clueless, and others think this is a good idea. Harold Varmus and I have grave reservations about this (me particularly) since I believe that it will have the unintended consequence of sucking money away from standard NIH research to out into a Center that is Francis's baby. We are already doing $6 Billion in translational research at NIH.
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May 12, 2011 - Big announcement of early stopping of HPTN 052, which is randomized trial among 1763 heterosexual discordant couples to see if immediate treatment with ARVs (350-550 CD4 counts) versus delayed treatment (wait until fall to 250 or AIDSdefining illness) has an effect on transmission. Overwhelming response. 27 infections in delayed arm and 1 transmission in immediate arm (p <0.0001). I held press briefing and got front page in all major papers - NY Times.Wash Post, WSJ; appeared on NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN International, etc.