FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, March 21, 2007
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2007-03-21

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 151 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Briefing of POTUS today at 2:30 – 3:30 PM in Roosevelt Room on
Pandemic Flu preparedness. Secretary Leavitt, Bill Raub and I briefed him. I did most
of the formal briefing on state of the threat, vaccines, antivirals and diagnostics. Bill
spoke on community mitigation strategy and the stockpile. MOL spoke on overall
responsibility of the USG versus states. Present were the POTUS, VP, Karl Rove, Josh
Bolten, Joel Kaplan, Dan Bartlett, Fran Townsend, Candi Wolff, Mike Chertoff, Paula
Dobriansky (Undersecretary of State), several people from Joint Chiefs of Staff, Rajeev
Venkayya, Joel Bagnell.
   Briefing went very well. POTUS was as usual very friendly and deferential to me.
Was at times serious and at times jocular with his characteristic joking around. When he
came into the room, he looked at me and said “Fauci, glad to see you Tony. I see we
have the first team here today”. It was the first day of Spring and it was unseasonably
cold out and cloudy.