I spoke then about the value of hard work, paying my own way through college, and my lifelong dedication to science and public health. On August 25, I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded. all under the authority of a Senate confirmed director with unimpeachable credentials. I could have kept the office, the title, but I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced. (08:06–08:13)
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