FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, September 14, 2007
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2007-09-14

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, September 14, 2007
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 159 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Big day. Went to White House for Karl Rove’s farewell party. Moving
speeches by Josh Bolten (who showed PowerPoint slides on Karl’s years with the
POTUS here and in Texas), the POTUS who choked up a few times when talking about
Karl, and Karl himself who gave a very moving thank you to his friends at the WH. He
recounted how after Bush won the election Karl did not want to come to DC with the
POTUS because he felt that although he was a good political strategist and tactician, he
did not like internecine warfare and he saw that during the administration of the
POTUS’s father George H.W. Bush shook his head in agreement with this. Karl went on
to say that it would not be this way during his administration since it will be like a family
and he would not allow backbiting. My thought was that although this is an admirable
thing, it might have had the unintended consequence of having a closed system that did
not accept outside ideas very well. In any event it was a warm affair. I had the
opportunity to chat with Josh Bolten, Karl Rove, Fran Townsend, Mike Chertoff, Charles
Krauthammer, and many other notables.
   After the ceremony we waved the POTUS off from the balcony in Marine One on the
way to Camp David for the weekend. I had a scheduled briefing of First Lady Laura
Bush’s staff with Anita McBride (Chief-of-Staff), Carrie Underwood (Deputy Director of
Policy and Projects), and several others. The briefing went very well. I talked about
global health issues and what the FLOTUS could do for the last year domestically and
internationally to promote the health agenda. I will be suggesting places that she could
visit. To do an event similar to what we did together at Howard University (see above –