The hardest part was that there was so much that I wanted to put in and in order to make it a readable book that was a modest size and not overwhelming the reader with details... You tend to include every detail and every person, but you can't, and you feel badly that you're leaving people and experiences out in order to maintain the flow of the book.
Well, I had a really nice private dinner with President George W. Bush and Laura and my wife and another couple, and it really gave a nice insight into President Bush, because we had nice discussions about any of a number of things.
Speaking of presidents, many - wrongly - were more interested in his relationship and time with former President Donald Trump than anything else. There's a chapter in the book about his experience working with Trump, which if it's distilled into one word would be described as 'whiplash. Fauci calls Trump 'complex,' but the time with Trump is a tiny fraction of his story.
I mean, yes, I know what you mean. It was clear that this was a memoir of my 83 years of my life, 54 of which was spent at the [National Institutes of Health] and almost 39 of which were spent as the director of [the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases], and whittling it down further, COVID was only about three and a half year of those years, and my time with Trump was.
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