In 1989, Fauci was twice offered the job of NIH director by George H. W. Bush and twice turned it down.
America's Doctor. By: Shute, Nancy, U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 1/28/2002, Vol. 132, Issue 3
With Fauci at the helm, NIAID's annual budget soared from $320 million in 1984 to $2.4 billion in 2001.
Power broker. By: Jaroff, Leon, Moffett, Anne, Jaroff, L, TIME Magazine, 0040781X, 8/20/2001, Vol. 158, Issue 7
The institute that Dr. Fauci runs at the National Institutes of Health not only controls about 40 percent of the Federal budget designated for AIDS, but also the money for studies of all the other infectious diseases afflicting the nation's citizenry, from tuberculosis to hanta virus infections. In addition, Dr. Fauci runs a laboratory on the Bethesda campus that does basic research on how the human immunodeficiency virus gradually disassembles the immune system, studies that lately have yielded insights into AIDS and buffed his luster as something more than a superbureaucrat.
SCIENTIST AT WORK: Anthony S. Fauci; Consummate Politician On the AIDS Front
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Feb. 15, 1994
The New York Times