FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, August 23, 2001
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2001-08-23

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, August 23, 2001
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 33 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Secr.Thompson on a visit to NIH again offered me the position as
NIH Director and said that the President wanted me and that I could indeed be NIH
Director, NIAID Director, and keep my Lab. I told him that I wanted to remain doing
what I was doing at full speed and so refused his offer. He was extremely gracious and
quite complimentary to me. He said that I was the most outstanding person that he had
ever met ….really. He said that he would not ask me again unless I brought it up.