FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Sunday, November 30, 2008
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2008-11-30

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DIARY ENTRY — Sunday, November 30, 2008
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 189 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Sunday AM (pouring rain). I had backed out of the Redskins- NY
Giants game with Gene Elrod because my daughters were home for Thanksgiving
weekend. Got a call from Jay Lefkowitz who is writing a brief history of PEPFAR for a
trade journal (forgot which one). He wanted to do a historical fact check with me about
the timing of meetings that we had with Josh Bolton, Gary Edson, Kristen Silverberg in
the WH. His version of events was strikingly close to my historical memory. During the
conversation he asked about the NIH Director job and we reminisced about the Bush
years. Interesting fact that he dropped. He related that he was having a conversation
with Bush during the time of the NIH Director decision and Bush said, “why not just
appoint Tony Fauci”. Jay agreed. Jay now casually mentioned that Karl Rove was
against my candidacy. He did not say why. I could be that he was against the “dual”
appointment or perhaps he was influenced by Sen. Brownback’s concern about my stance
on fetal tissue and stem cell research. I guess that I will never know.