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really wanted her back at CIA for a "special assignment" (remember, she was counterterrorism before coming to NSS). Also, I finally told Heidi that there is definitely a direct leak from IPC (likely Kris Beardsley) to Mike Osterholm. Heidi said she knew this all along and she knows exactly who it is, although I am not entirely certain. More later, since we now have to decide whether to cancel the October NSABB meeting which will cause an uproar among some of them or take the chance of their coming up with something that Heidi does not want to see happen. Sept. 15, 2012 - Exceptionally pleasant and enjoyable evening. Bob and Deborah Seder invited Chris and me to join them for the Bruce Springsteen concert at Nationals Stadium. He arranged an amazing group of 10 people for the event. It included Bob Woodward and his wife Elsa Walsh, a couple Christen (executive director of the Four Seasons Hotel in DC) and his wife Meg (? last name), Bob (very wealthy entrepreneur) and wife Alison (? Last name) Bob and Deborah, Chris and me. We met at Café Milano and had a great meal; a van took us to Nat's Stadium and back. The concert was truly amazing. Springsteen and his E Street band gave the best musical performance that I have ever experienced. We had seats on the infield right in front of the stage that was set up on where the outfield is for baseball games. However, we did not sit since everyone was standing. Springsteen played for 3 hours and 45 minutes without stopping for a minute. He went from one song to another. The crowd absolutely loved it. It was a beautiful "Indian Summer" evening at around 70 degrees. Got to know Bob Woodward with prolonged conversations about what I do and what he does. He feels passionate about what he wrote in his latest book (came out this week) entitled "The Price of Politics". He is a good guy and it was fun getting to know him. Sept. 18, 2012 - Pleasant surprise. Received an inscribed copy of Bob Woodward's new book "The Price of Politics" with a note written in the first page - "To Tony Fauci and Christine Grady - What a great night it was! - With greatest regards, Bob Woodward". Sept. 19, 2012 - Received "The Starlight Award" together with Roy Vagelos from the Children's Inn at NIH. I received it for the "Science" and Roy for his extraordinary influence on building of the Inn in 1990 with Merck money when he was at the time the CEO of Merck. Ceremony held at the Liaison Hotel at 415 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Many notables from Congress and entertainment at the event. To name a few: Congressmen Chris van Hollen, John Dingle, Barney Frank, Doris Matsui; Sens. Frank Lautenberg, Roy Blunt; TV Anchor Gordon Peterson. MC was Cokie Roberts. Twentyeight year old former AIDS patient Hydeia Broadbent gave speech and I was praised for helping to develop the drugs that saved her life when she came to the Inn and NIH at age 6 years old with advanced AIDS and now she is healthy and happy - many tears in the audience. Sept. 25, 2012 - Meeting in the Situation Room of the White House (1:30 to 3:00 PM) called by Heidi Avery. Discussed the issues around DURC and how we are going to address the voluntary (on the part of the scientists) moratorium on gain-of-function for transmissibility in mammals research on highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza. We (ASF, May Patterson, Francis Collins, Larry Tabak and the HHS crew led by Sally