FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, November 9, 2011
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2011-11-09

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 262–263 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Still no information on why the WH ordered me to recall
my Op-Ed.   Have e-mailed Gayle Smith (NSS). I will explain situation
to her tomorrow and see if she has any insight.
Meeting did not occur at 8:30 AM because of scheduling issues. Will
try to do a call tomorrow

Nov.10, 2011 – Got some insight from Gayle, but am afraid she is not
telling me everything. She claims that she heard discussion about my
Op-Ed at the WH, but not by WHCOMS.   Issue was whether it was a good
idea to put it out right after HRC’s speech since it already got great
PR and so why waste a Fauci Op-ED.   Perhaps better to wait until the
POTUS does World AIDS Day.   This could be true, but who knows?   Gayle
did say that the OMB people might have been concerned by the couple of
words that said we need significant increases in resources, including
from other donor countries. This implies needing more USG resources,
which would obviously bother OMB.   However, I could easily have
changed this to say we need significant new resources FROM other donor
countries.   In any event, Gayle assured me that the Op-Ed was not “off
message” in the substance of its content.   We will hold onto it for
now.   Having said this, here is another example of the ridiculous need
to control the “message” on the part of this White House.

Back to the Raj Shah intrigue.   On Raj’s suggestion, Yesterday’s
scheduled meeting now a phone call among me, Eric, Raj, Tom Frieden.
Raj wanted to again bring up the possibility of doing something ”big”
since he feels that the POTUS will not have another opportunity. After
much discussion we explained to Raj again that “Blue Sky”, i.e. $2.5
billion will never get by OMB or the Congress and even so, the best way
forward according to the models is not to just pick out a few countries
and full-court-press.   Raj goes along and we think it is over.

Apparently, immediately after the call, Raj calls Rick Klausner asking
him to convince me to not give in and adopt his plan. Rick calls me on
my way to The Inn at Little Washington for my delayed 70th birthday
present from Denise from last December. We are in the limo (rented by
Denise) and Rick tries to convince me to re-convene the group.    He
says that Raj feels that I am the only one who could do this. Raj just
does not want to give up.    However, out of want to go the extra mile,
I will call up Eric and Tom.