FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, October 13, 2003
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2003-10-13

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, October 13, 2003
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 82 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Went to White House ceremony (President’s speech) and reception to
commemorate Columbus Day. The President specifically greeted me in his remarks
saying how proud he was of how I was the General in the Global War on AIDS. After
the ceremony, I ran into Josh Bolten in the hallway of the EEOB. He asked about my
opinion of the controversy of $2 billion versus $3 billion in FY ’04 for the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Bono has been giving the WH a hard time saying that
the President was reneging on his promise when in fact he promised $15 billion over 5
years staring with $2 billion in ’04 (see above). He specifically asked my opinion of how
Randy Tobias was doing as the new AIDS head of the program. He indicated that he did
not think that there was anything wrong, but that he was getting the vague feeling that
things were not moving along as aggressively as he thought that they would be. He asked
me to quietly check it out.