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article on me in The Financial Times with full ally syndicated Parade Magazine of The x the May 3 to 13, 2003 - Spending almost full time working with White House on trying to shape the BioShield Legislation with the Senate and House. I have daily been briefing senators (such as Sen. Byrd) and staff of the House as well as members such as Henry Waxman, Chris Cox, Fred Upton, etc. on why they should support the President's (Sen. Judd Gregg's) Bill. Congress is reluctant to make the purchase authority "Mandatory, permanent, and indefinite" It seems now that we are winning the battle for mandatory, but it is going to be tough to get permanent and indefinite. We will have to settle for a cap according to the budget resolution and a sunset at 10 years. People at the White House that I am working closely with are Ginger Loper, Candi Wolff, Carol Kuntz, Ken Bernard, Chris Cox, Mike Allen et al. Also, during this time I gave the Commencement Address at Emory in front of 14,000 people and received an honorary degree. May 14 - 20, 2003 - Continued doing Congressional briefings and Hearings on BioShield and SARS. The epidemic is appearing to come under control. Spent sometime today (May 20) helping the White House write the POTUS speech on the AIDS initiative. Wonderful thing happened yesterday. The WH is planning a signing ceremony for the AIDS Bill ($15 billion authorization). It was originally schedule for May 28. I wrote an e-mail to Gary Edson and Jay Lefkowitz saying that I had to give the Commencement Address at SUNY Downstate on May 28 and if it occurred then, would they send my regrets to the POTUS. Jay responded by e-mail that since I was the honored guest, they will change the ceremony to May 27. Amazing! May 20 - 27, 2003 - Busy time for Bioshield and giving Commencement Addresses (Emory, Albany Medical, Univ. of MD and SUNY Downstate) and receiving honorary degrees (Emory, Albany, Univ. MD, Yale). Major article (feature piece) on me in the weekend edition of The Financial Times; mostly very flattering with the usual few jealous comments from "unamed sources". May 28, 2003 - Historic day. President Bush signs the Authorizing legislation for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the Dean Acheson Auditorium of the State Department. Again, he specifically thanked me in his speech for my work on AIDS and for being there. I was given a "seat of honor" in the first row. In his speech the President used word-for-word the sentence that I composed for him describing the initiative as the "largest single up-front commitment in history to an international public health initiative involving a single disease" May 31, 2003 - Extraordinary feature article on me in The Financial Times with full page picture and complimentary story. June 8, 2003 - Feature story on me in the nationally syndicated Parade Magazine of The Washington Post. June 8-18, 2003 - Continued activity and briefings, conference calls concerning the Bioshield Legislation. White House still relying me on pushing the prospect of