Briefing of POTUS today at 2:30 – 3:30 PM in Roosevelt Room on
Pandemic Flu preparedness. Secretary Leavitt, Bill Raub and I briefed him. I did most of the formal briefing on state of the threat, vaccines, antivirals and diagnostics. Bill spoke on community mitigation strategy and the stockpile. MOL spoke on overall responsibility of the USG versus states. Present were the POTUS, VP, Karl Rove, Josh Bolten, Joel Kaplan, Dan Bartlett, Fran Townsend, Candi Wolff, Mike Chertoff, Paula Dobriansky (Undersecretary of State), several people from Joint Chiefs of Staff, Rajeev Venkayya, Joel Bagnell. Briefing went very well. POTUS was as usual very friendly and deferential to me. Was at times serious and at times jocular with his characteristic joking around. When he came into the room, he looked at me and said “Fauci, glad to see you Tony. I see we have the first team here today”. It was the first day of Spring and it was unseasonably cold out and cloudy.
Mar 21, 2007
Dr. Fauci’s released records hold 1 diary entry filed under Wednesday, March 21, 2007, from the Diary Prequel. 163 words in total, reproduced below exactly as released. The diary text appears on p. 151 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf.
Correspondents named on this day1
Matched by surname against the 108 correspondents in the release, so a common name may match more than the person intended. See the whole of 2007 as a calendar.