FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, March 24, 2004
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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 94 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Had interesting and full day. Went to the National Defense University
at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. to participate in the DHS exercise of a hypothetical
aerosolized anthrax attack on Chicago. It was for the benefit of press leaders. Secretary
Ridge, Susan Neely (Assist. Sec. for Public Affairs, DHS), Ed Thompson (CDC) were
the main players. It was exciting and the press totally enjoyed it and got engaged in
active Qs and As. Virtually all of the senior producers and correspondents of networks,
CNN, Fox, etc were present as were top print media. Frank Sesno (CNN) moderated it
and Aaron Brown (CNN) was present. Tom Ridge relied virtually totally on me to
answer medical questions.

        Also, had meeting at PEPFAR Headquarters (2100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.)
with Gary Edson, Randy Tobias, Robin Cleveland (OMB), Mark Dybul, Joe O’Neill and
Ambassador Lange to discuss how we can work an AIDS issue into the upcoming G-8
meeting in June at Sea Island, GA. Gary and I proposed the possibility of highlighting
the HIV Vaccine Enterprise that Rick Klausner and I have been working on for the past
year. It would cost the USG virtually no new money since the “Enterprise” is a virtual
organization that is proposing a strategic plan as described in our Science article. The
POTUS can urge the G-8 countries to make a political commitment to make the
Enterprise work.