And what this person told me was that what you need to do is that, when you go to the White House, always say in the back of your mind that this may be the last time I’m going there because I might have to tell this president something he doesn’t like.
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Anthony Fauci
Physician and immunologist; director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1984–2022
United States · b. 1940
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American physician-scientist who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for thirty-eight years, advising seven presidents through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, anthrax, SARS, Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. He was chief medical adviser to the president in 2021–2022.
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you have got to be totally honest and give advice and analysis that you’re asked to give that’s based on evidence. And if the analysis that you come to comes to a conclusion that a president might not like to hear that, you can’t be afraid of saying, “Mr. President, with all due respect, this is the way I think the situation is.”
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