The Nation - News from Dec. 20, 1985
President Reagan was told that the government’s AIDS research program may produce so much new information for scientists that it may one day be viewed as “the health equivalent of the Manhattan Project,” which produced the first atomic bomb. A White House official said the optimistic assessment was offered by Dr. Donald Macdonald, acting assistant secretary of health in the Department of Health and Human Services, in a meeting at which the President received an update on deadly AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and a summary view of what government agencies are doing about it.
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