FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, April 17, 2010
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2010-04-17

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DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, April 17, 2010
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 233 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Was at the Georgetown Harbor near Thompson’s Boat House watching
Ali’s Varsity Crew Boat compete in a regatta. Nice Spring day on the Potomac. Chris
and I were with the usual parents group including our good friends Liz and David Hayes
whose daughter Molly is Ali’s “best” friend and boat-mate. Both will attend Stanford in
September. There had been a terrible explosion in an off shore deep-water oil rig a few
days ago with no apparent oil leak despite the fact that the platform was destroyed, 11
people died and scores injured. It was the British Petroleum (BP) Horizon Deepwater
well. David Hayes is the Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. In the
middle of the regatta, David got a phone call from the White House communications
people. Apparently, there is considerable amount of oil leaking from a broken pipe line.
They were saying that the leak is minimal and David was caught in the middle in having
spoken to the press and saying that this was serious. The White House communications
people were concerned that he said that we have a bigger problem than exists. They were
apparently giving him some “shit” about this. David, who recently (last year) had a
cardiac arrest associated with a myocardial infarction on a golf course, looked shook and
distracted. I encouraged him to not worry about what the communications people think. I
know something about the WH trying to control the “message”. Little did either of us
know that over the subsequent months would unfold the worst oil spill in history and the
worst environmental disaster in the history of the USA.