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ay others; also on sm. No new cases. Stewart Simonson, Michael Osterholm, Margaret Hamburg, C.J. Peters, William Patrick, James LeDuc, Phil Russell, Les Caudell, Co. Edward Eitzen. Oct. 31, 2001 - NYC "outlier" women dies of inhalation anthrax. Still no connection with postal cases. Could this be an outlier of the existing paradigm or the sentinel case of an entirely new paradigm? Did major media today with The Today Show with Katie Couric, Grand Rounds at NIH covered by all networks, CBS Evening News, Jim Lehr Newshour, etc. Nov. 1, 2001 - Had extraordinary briefing of Democratic Senate Caucus on bioterrorism. Present among others were Sens. Lieberman, Daschle, Boxer, Mikulski, Cleland, Hollings, Wellstone, Jeffords, Biden, Wydan, Levin, etc. In all there were about 30 senators. They were extraordinarily complimentary to me for my public leadership on bioterrorism, calling me an "American hero", a national treasure, etc. I thoroughly briefed them. They felt strongly that I should lead the nation's efforts. I politely suggested that I prefer my present job. Nov. 2, 2001 - Important Senate Hearing of the Labor, HHS Subcommittee chaired by Tom Harkin. Also present were Sens. Spector, Byrd, and Stevens. Hearing on smallpox. I was able to communicate to Specter that NIAID was not allowed to put in a request in the $1.6 billion supplement of DHHS for bioterrorism. In other words we needed $153.7 million additional to the PB, but we were not allowed to submit for the supplement by OMB. I "busted" the budget by telling Specter after the Hearing what we needed. He promised to put it into our appropriation. Nov. 3, 2001 - There was a spoof on me and Attorney General Aschroft on "Saturday Night Live". No new cases of anthrax. Kathy Nguyen case in NYC still a mystery. Nov. 4, 2001 - I appear on "Face the Nation" with Sen. Ted Kennedy and others; also on CSPAN's Washington Journal and CNN Special. No new issues. Nov. 5-12, 2001 - relatively quiet re: bioterrorism. No new cases. Nov. 13, 2001 - Went to an extraordinary dinner at the home of the Saudi Ambassador to the USA (Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz) Sat at table with his wife Princess Haifa Al Faisal (Late King Faisal's daughter). Also at the table was CIA Director George Tenet and Sen. Ted Stevens. Dinner in honor of Nelson Mandela. The Princess specifically mentioned me as a very honored guest when she introduced the program. Nov. 13- Dec.1, 2001 - At first no connection with spores in mail However, careful detective work has indicated that this might be a tertiary mail contamination that gave inhalational anthrax, which is not supposed to happen. Letter that passed through Trenton with the Leahy letter got contaminated and went to a post office in CT. may have gotten a letter that was next to the secondary contaminated letter. Check news stories for details. I appeared