Diary Prequel Package — page 63

-ourt Nov. 22, 2002 - Gave keynote address at the Holy Cross function at The Supreme Court for "Lift the Cross High". Justice Clarence Thomas was our host and was the other speaker. My remarks were very well received by all. It was a very elegant evening aimed ultimately at fund-raising for Holy Cross. Thomas is also an alumnus. Nov. 26, 2002 - Briefing of Vice President Cheney at the White House regarding Project Bioshield (I made up the name) which is requesting his help in getting me special authorities for Countermeasure Advanced Development. Meeting included VP Cheney, "Scooter" Libby (both on teleconference from secret location), Secretary Thompson, Stewart Simonson, Bill Raub, Carol Kuntz, Noreen Hynes, Seth Carus. Bill Raub presented the need for a $1-2$ billion Vaccine Trust Fund. Meeting went extremely well. VP was very supportive of my proposals and told Carol to set up a meeting between me, TGT, Stewart and Josh Bolten. Also met later in the day with Richard Danzig (former Secretary of the Navy under Clinton). He is a private consultant under contract to the DoD for Biodefense and wanted to get to know me since he has "heard so much about me". He wants to start an informal group of people linked by common interest in biodefense. Dec. 3, 2002 - Still waiting for the President to decide on the announcement of the smallpox vaccine policy. Should be tomorrow or next day. Also, a lot of back and forth between me, Jay Lefkowitz and Gary Edson. I believe that we are moving towards a Global AIDS Initiative. Jay will present our plan and budget to Mitch Daniels today. Phone call with Jay Lefkowitz and Keith Hennessey and Doug Badger called wanting to know why we needed a vaccine trust fund as opposed to other mechanisms to guarantee purchase of vaccines. This is what Bill Raub presented to the VP (see above); however, they are asking me about it because of "my credibility" (according to Carol Kuntz. Carol was on the phone with Kristen Silverberg. There is some concern as this passes through the WH that there is not enough justification for a "Trust Fund". Carol Kuntz wants to set up a meeting at the WH for me to help explain this sometime later this week or next week. Dec. 4, 2002 - Amazing day. I was at one time on 3 different lines with 3 different people at the White House - Gary Edson, Jay Lefkowitz, Carol Kuntz. There was an intense and critical issue with Gary and Jay. Gary was getting ready to meet with Mitch Daniels regarding our AIDS plan and he heard through his WH grapevine that Mitch was going to try to "Steamroller" him by bringing up the Washington Post article from a couple of days ago about the program in Botswana being a failure. In other words, if Botswana failed, why did we believe that our program would succeed. I explained to Gary that the Botswana Program was "Top Down" government as opposed to local network. They were using high tech., approach instead of grass roots. Gary asked me to contact our African friends and get their opinion (in one half hour!!!!). I contacted Peter Mugyenyi, Sam Kibende, and Eric Goosby and they all agreed with me. Peter mentioned that the big mistake that the Gates Foundation and Merck went directly to the Botswana Government and asked them to put together a plan. Botswana then employed the Harvard AIDS Institute who developed a high-tech USA Harvard like plan with CDReleased by Chairman Rand Paul