Tony's Diary Package — page 258

Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 03/01 04/01 05/01 06/01 07/01 New York Times interview 'eport; CNN with Jake ocate Global USA PRESS: NPR Radio - "Morning Edition" Rachel Martin; New York Times interview wih Jennifer Senior; Nice article in U.S. News and World Report; CNN with Jake Tapper - The Lead; Interview with John Casey of The Advocate July 22, 2020 - Global USA Death threats are ramping up again and so my security with George Adams is coming back. George will take Christine and meto the game tomorrow night and provide security. Had a great Zoom conversation with Ryan Zimmerman (Zim) who gave me tips on throwing out the first ball on Thursday. He was wonderful. Very nice man. Interesting day at the Task Force. Called the POTUS I mentioned to the VP that the POTUS did a good job on the solo press conference yesterday. I told VP to tell the POTUS that I said so. The VP told me to call him myself since he has such great respect for me. Katie Miller gave me the phone number of the POTUS's personal secretary, Molly Michael. I called her and she ultimately (30 minutes later) connected me. I told him it was a good idea (like I had told him last Thursday) to own the problem, admit that things are bad and describe how he is going to do something about it. I also told him that it was good that he did it solo and kept it to 30 minutes. He was very glad to hear from me and said it was"a really great call" Gov. Andrew Cuomo called me asking how I was. I told him that I was upset that the far right was trying to discredit me. He strongly suggested that I resign; he does not seem to appreciate the difference between resigning from TF and resigning from NIAID. He said I will lose credibility if I stay and that my legacy needs to be preserved. He said