and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 03, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Subcommittee is holding a hearing on the findings from a fifteen month Republican-led probe of former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID-19 pandemic's origins.
Fauci describes being a quick study of the governmental budgeting process, which is the mother’s milk of any bureaucracy. Fauci further explains how he leveraged the first challenge of his tenure as the Director of the, to increase his visibility, power, and the standing of NIAID. HIV/AIDS shaped Fauci’s leadership methodology and he would employ the same approach in handling future public health challenges.
Perhaps Fauci recognized Kramer was not fighting him, but for his and his friend’s lives. How Fauci dealt with Kramer was the model for how he would deal with fiery debate during his entire career, culminating with the contentious relationship Fauci had with President Donald Trump some 35 years later