Went on the floor that day, the first thing i did was go over to bird. I said bob byrd i will never know the rules of the senate like you do. Ill make you a deal. I will never surprise you, if you will not surprise me. He said let me think about it. He came back later that afternoon and said ok. And we never did. I think that tradition has carried on. I think dole adopted that point of view. The system, and the rules of the senate are such, that theres plenty of room for disagreement and controversy. To do so within the framework of organization without sneaking up on your adversary. Some of the interview with former Senate Majority leader howard baker airing at 8 00 eastern 5 00 pacific. News from the pentagon planning more cuts for benefits for troops and the 2016 budget to be submitted to the white house in february. Military pay and benefits cost 185 billion in 2011. That decreased by 8 billion. That was mostly due to the reduction in active duty and reserve troops. You can read mo
Ever have a feeling that something was going to get away from us in one of these crises or diseases . Not that it was going to get away from us, but it was going to be a lot more serious than anyone anticipated. When i first started seeing and taking care of hiv infected individuals, before we even knew that it was hiv, in early 1981 the winter of 1881 and 1982 it was very unpredictable and no one knew what was happening. I was concerned that many people in and out of government considered this just a fluke of among gay men but the way i saw it evolve and following it it was quite scary. Unfortunately my concerns were wellfounded, because it turned out to historically be today one of the most devastating historic pandemics that we have ever experienced, that sell that civilization has ever experienced. When did you first recognize this . Was there an ahha moment . There was an ahha moment, he it was the summer, and the cdc puts out a weekly mortality report, which is almost a pamphlet
Their june 5th, 1981 mmwr, five men from los angeles who presented with a very unusual kind of pneumonia that you only see in people with a very suppressed kind of immune system. And i said, wow, why all gay men . They were supposedly completely healthy other than that. I thought it was a fluke and i put it aside. And then the next mmwr appeared on my desk at the nih, and now they said 26 men, not only from l. A. , but also from San Francisco and new york, have this strange pneumonia, but a strange cancer that you see with people with this immune system that is suppressed, and it was all in gay men, and i thought whoa, this is really bad. I had no idea what it was. It looked very much like it was an Infectious Disease. When you look at these patterns, it seems to have been spread by sexual contact, and that is when i really had that combination of an ahha moment and anxiety, this is really going to be bad and i made this transforming decision of my career, i decided i was going to stop
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