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power to maintain the momentum and culture of the VRC. I would not hire someone to replace Gary that would possibly damage this culture. December 4, 2012 - That evening had a senior staff dinner in which I discussed my desire to tighten up the work ethic of the front office. The work load is being disproportionately falling on me, and particularly Greg Folkers who is killing himself trying to polish up the sometimes sloppy work of others, particularly David Morens, who is a good guy, but will have to be let go. We met at Positano's restaurant in Bethesda (Fairmont Avenue) with Cliff Lane, Hugh Auchincloss, and JJ McGowan. Good discussion. December 7, 2012 - went to dinner at the home of Connie Milstein on 3210 - R Street, N.W. in Georgetown. Connie is the owner of the Jefferson Hotel in Washington DC. The occasion of the event was a fund raiser for the organization called Key to the Cure 2012. This is an organization aimed at curing epilepsy. It is run by Susan and David Axelrod who have a child with epilepsy. It was an extraordinary evening with all the glitterati of Washington DC at the meeting including a visit from VP Joe Biden. I had the opportunity to chat a bit with the vice president and discuss our work with HIV-AIDS. He clearly knew who I was since I have met him several times when he was in the Senate and he was present at the East Room ceremony when I received the presidential Medal of Freedom. In addition there were number of other known media and political stars including Alex Castellanos, the Republican Strategist. The joke of the evening is that David Axelrod had just shaved off his mustache to raise money for the CURE. He had been joking on TV Sunday Talk Shows that he would shave off his mustache is Obama lost the election. Obviously, Obama won, but now David shaved it off for a cause. Alex Castellanos now promised to shave off his moustache to raise money for the CURE. December 8, 2012 - Saturday morning spent an hour on C-SPAN television (National Journal) in Washington DC (400 North Capitol Street) discussing seasonal flu and other infectious disease issues. I was on the show with my friend Tom Frieden, Director of the CDC. December 11, 2012 - engaged in a National Academy of Sciences Symposium in Washington DC at the Keck Building on 5th St., NW to discuss emerging infectious diseases and the 20th anniversary of the 1992 IOM report on emerging infectious diseases. Later in the day I gave a talk at the treatment action group (TAG) event run by Mark Harrington at the Fairfax Embassy Row Hotel on Massachusetts Avenue in DC. The subject of the meeting was ending the HIV pandemic in the United States. This meeting was put together in order to emphasize that we have a significant problem in the United States even at the same time as we are making enormous progress globally with having the end of the AIDS pandemic globally in sight, which was the topic of the Internal AIDS meeting in DC in July (see above) and the recent World AIDS Day events at the White House and the State Department. December 13, 2012 - travel to New York City to give the keynote lecture at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DND1) symposium run by Medicins Sans Frontiere