Norman Jean Roy for Newsweek
Posted on 05/07/2006 11:56:23 PM PDT by RWR8189
May 15, 2006 issue - For the past 14 years, I've had a photo of a young man named Ricky Ray in my office. I met Ricky and the rest of the Ray family on the campaign trail in 1992. Ricky and his brothers were hemophiliacs who contracted HIV through blood transfusions. When I first met Ricky, it was clear that he was very ill. After I was elected, I spoke to Ricky on the phone and invited him and his family to my Inauguration. His family came, but sadly, Ricky died just weeks before. When I was president I worked to get the resources necessary to turn back the tide of AIDS in America and to triple our meager contribution to fighting the global epidemic. I also kept Ricky's photo in my office in the White House. Now I keep it in my office in Harlem to remind me of the 40 million Rickys in the world today who live with HIV/AIDS but, because of breakthroughs in medicine, shouldn't have to live abbreviated lives.
The face of AIDS treatment has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. Before I was elected president, Hillary and I had close friends who had died of AIDS, and when I first got to the White House, there was little effective treatment for people living with the disease. By the start of my second term, the introduction of three-drug antiretroviral therapy had transformed AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable chronic illness for people who had access to the drugs. Treatment reduced AIDS-related mortality by nearly 80 percent in the United States. Unfortunately, almost no one could afford the drugs in Africa, where between 1992 and 2000 the number of HIV infections rose from 7 million to over 22 million.
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yeah , i almost read it... :)
No one is more qualified to write this. Clinton was always on top of aides.
Oh wait...nevermind.
This X of Hillary's (just not in writing) should know all there is to know about 'tainted blood...........
So, which Arkansas prison was the source of the tainted blood?
Get out the violins for the cigar store Indian....
What a hypocrite!
LOL! Typical liberal - in fact, this is the hallmark of the liberal mindset. Amassing power and tons of money, while always wanting credit for being "caring", "compassionate", "tolerant", "concerned about the environment", whatever. Whenever you see someone in public life seeking credit for those kinds of things (while making money at the same time), you can bet your bottom dollar it's a liberal.
And how many millions in several countries are infected because of you slick? You did more than anyone else on this planet to spread the disease, all because of your greed.
Again, it's all about you, isn't it, Impeached42?
the pathetic search for a legacy continues.
This is the kind of puerile, Opraphied, touchy-feely, staged crap so typical of Slick Willy that triggers my gag reflex everytime.
I'll bet my house that the SOB started with a lie right out of the gate.
his defense of oral sex "is not sex" has untold magnitudes of young girls engaging in this "non sex" act and thus contracting std's and greater exposure of the hiv virus; I'll applaud this POS when he denounces his "non-sexual" actions and discourage these vulnerable young girls from following in his footsteps.WILL HE EVER GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!
Bill Clinton was recently on CNN doing a program calling for the "End of AIDS." I can't believe the audacity of this man, given his history of sexual indisgressions.
"I, I, I, ... "
Make that two houses. All his stories start that way. He always makes up a lie to suit the occasion.
Self oriented much? You betcha!
The level of deceit that spews from this man is hard to believe.
As did thousands of Canadians. But, what the hell?
Nine in the first paragraph, but he scaled back a bit after that (probably had Ira Magaziner take over the writing at that point). I like how he says that he decided to do more to end AIDS in Africa after he left the White House, like there was something stopping him while he was the world's most powerful man.
My Quest to Improve Care. Translation: "My Quest for a Legacy."
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