Conrad Patty

… he possibility of making the HIV Vaccine Enterprise a possible proposal. He had spoken to Patty Stonesifer and she mentioned that Rick Klausner and I were working on this together. John Kerry won Democratic nomination prior to convention and he and Bush are going at it …

… our AIDS proposal for the G-8 meeting in June at Sea Island, GA. We will work with Gates (Patty Stonesifer) to endorse this, but the Gates Foundation is going to want us to promise even more money for an AIDS vaccine. Note that we are already spending>$500 million, vast …

… 28-29, 2004 – Gary Edson called me and said that he had a “disturbing” conversation with Patty Stonsifer (Gates) in which she mentioned that the USG should promise NEW resources for the Enterprise proposal to the G-8. Gary asked (and I did) call Rick Klausner to get hi …

… Jenny, Ali, Denise and Jack, Cliff Lane, Hugh Auchincloss, J.J. McGowan, Greg Folkers and Patty Conrad) to take a group Picture, the POTUS hugged me and put his lips to my ears and said, “I love you Tony, Thanks for all you do for our country and the world”. The ceremon …

… ng 3 hours and 45 minutes to the ceremony. What a mistake that would have been not to go. Patty Conrad used her influence and experience with White House social people to allow a late RSVP. In fact, Patty was invited also related to her years in the Bush 41 White House …

… research on TB into the 21st Century and making it transforming and not just incremental. Patty Conrad came with me to Seattle to help out with the press and she enjoyed the trip greatly. Her first trip with me in 2 years since she began working at NIAID.

Went with Patty Conrad to the book signing of D.A. Henderson’s book on the history of smallpox eradication sponsored by Tommy Thompson of Aikin Gump (his law firm). Tommy was very moved that …

… enny let me do everything. There was, however, a big blowup with crazy Jenny who attacked Patty Conrad and others at NIH since she claimed that we were blaming her for not letting Fauci go on the air (Duh!!!! That is the truth; that is what she is doing). She wrote a vi …

Take off to Paris with Patty Conrad for the 2009 AIDS Vaccine meeting of the IAS and Vaccine Enterprise. Extremely successful meeting in many ways. The RV144 (Thai trial) results were formerly presented …

… le show “Dan Rather Reports”. Very nice person. We related well and he told his producer (Patty heard the conversation) that I was a “superstar”. Oct. 28-29, 2009 – Press is jumping all over HHS for delay in vaccine distribution. Front page stuff and all networks. They …

… s Picker, Cliff Lane, Carl Dieffenbach, Peggy Johnston, Hugh Auchincloss, Carol Hudgings, Patty Conrad. General consensus is to continue with basic discovery, but to go ahead with other Phase 2B trials, particularly a poxvirus (likely NYVAC) prime and a protein boost (C …

… detail and ultimately Chief of the Secret Service; decorated Viet Nam vet (Bronze Star). Patty Conrad knew him when she worked in the Bush 41 WH. Says he was a very nice person. Sat at the table with Bob Gallo and Phil Piccigallo. It is interesting that after all these …

… working on with Heidi Avery. June 8-11, 2010 – Visited RML for the BSC review. Went with Patty Conrad, Kathyu Zoon, Karyl Barron etc. Had very nice time. Went fishing twice with Marshall Bloom and Patty and a great guide named Jack Mauer. Fishing not good due to high w …

… all very gracious in saying how proud they were to have been my classmates. Great to see Patty Downs, Suzie Stewart, Mark Kaplan, Mike Dosik, Dave Fraser, David Tucker, Jim McSweeney, Carmine Bedotto, Frank Duggan, Randy Bell, among many others.

… heck about likelihood versus hypothetical. Senators at the Hearing were Dems: Tom Harkin, Patty Murray, Dick Durbin, Jack Reed, Mark Pryor, Barbara Mikulski, Bob Casey, Al Franken, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tammy Baldwin, Chris Murphy and Elizabeth Warren and GOPs: Jerry Mora …

… e multiple requests on the part of our communications people, namely, Courtney Billet and Patty Conrad, we have not received a positive or negative reply for clearance. This has gone on into the late evening of Friday, September 19 despite the fact that the programmers …

… on Cooper), Bloomberg, other networks such as CBS Morning Show. Sara Baldauf at HHS tells Patty and Courtney to hold on all TV appearances since “CDC has the lead”. Yet, I have been on multiple shows over the past couple of weeks on measles. This idiot Sara is stuck on …

… weekend, approval for several requests for me are delayed making it very inconvenient for Patty Conrad to arrange them, and some requests are denied. Also, Sarah Baldauf now sends me talking points on things that are actually scientific issues!! Unbelievable. She monito …

… ck Mulvany to brief first the Senators in the Dirksen Building led by Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray and then the House led by Rosa DeLauro and Tom Cole in the Capitol Visitor’s Center. Also, spent time in the SCIF planning for tomorrow when we may be briefing the POT …

… Hahn, Anne Schuchat, Bob Kadlec before Senate HELP Committee chaired by Lamar Alexander. Patty Murray complaining about lack of testing availability in Washington State where there is increased community spreading now with 6 deaths most in nurtsing home. In the middle …

… ey hammered us about testing. The Senators and Congressperrdsons were enraged, especially Patty Murry (D-WA). Steve Redd during the briefings and Bob Redfield during the Hearing continued to be incoherent in explaining about the difficulty regarding testing the “Public …

… l not go away. Angus King (Maine) tee-ed off on VP about the fact that we are unprepared. Patty Murray was her old self wanting a testing plan, etc. etc. This rompted us to devope the entire TF to testing and decided to do a presser. I took over and chided the group tha …

… eigh. It worked out beautifully. I described it in an e-m,ail that I sent to Courtney and Patty tonight after the call with Kayleigh and Alyssa Farah: Courtney/Patty: Important breakthrough! Spoke tonight with Kayleigh McEnany and had good conversation. Although she is …

… stified at the Senate HELP Hearing chaired by Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and ranking minority Patty Murray (D-WS). Focus was on opening schools, but it became free-wheeling. Elizabeth Warren was her usual muted hostility towards me, probably since she is aiming to by Biden’ …

… llowed on shows. Jake Tapper was told by Alyssa that it is OK to put me on his show. When Patty and CNN tried to make the arrangements, WH comms said that they did not know anything about this. Jon Karl and Wolf Blitzer also trying in vain to get me on. All day and even …

… ,000; USA – 29,400,000/535,200 Testified before the Senate HELP Committee chaired by Sen. Patty Murray (D_WA) and ranking Minority Richard Burr (R-NC). I had my typical fight with Sen. Rand Paul who insisted that masks were pure theater. I blew him away. After the Heari …

… We had our Hearing today before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee chaired by senator Patty Murray with ranking minority Roy Blount. As expected, several Republican senators got a bit snarky with me asking questions about the origins of COVID-19. In particular senat …

… ar to what he had said before. I doubt very seriously whether the chair of the committee, Patty Murray, will allow this. However, we shall see. Did the Stubing Lecture of the Greenwall Foundation this evening. It was a fireside chat moderated by Sanjay Gupta who intervi …

… ason of the fall and winter. Francis Collins and I had a conference call with chairperson Patty Murray of the HELP committee. She was very sympathetic about the fact that the Republicans would have come at me pretty hard and she wanted me to explain to her about gain of …

… ll, Janet Woodcock, Rochelle Walensky testified before the Senate HELP hearing chaired by Patty Murray . We had expected to have the same conflict with Senator Rand Paul who continues to lie egregiously about the gain of function research which he claims was done at the …