And we went over to the White House on a Sunday afternoon, and we sat down. Colin Powell, President Bush, Kofi Annan and Tommy Thompson, and we hammered out. And George W. Bush said, I'll give you 45 minutes. An hour and a half later, we had an agreement that he would come out the next day, on Monday and announce that he was going to put in $100 million into this global fund. And I thought it was great. Congress wanted to up it, and they put in 200 million. And that was the start of the global fund, which has saved millions of lives. (50:06–50:44)
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Asserts that George W. Bush agreed to announce $100 million funding for the global fund.
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