SECRETARY RICE: Thank you. Thank you very much. I am truly honored and delighted to have the opportunity to swear in Mark Dybul as our next Global AIDS Coordinator. I am pleased to do that in the presence of Mark's parents, Claire and Richard; his partner, Jason; and his mother-in-law, Marilyn. You have wonderful family to support you, Mark, and I know that's always important to us. Welcome.
Sadly, AIDS has become institutionalized as the cause celebre of diseased. We have always had to treat syphilis medically, but nobody ever crowed about having it.
We have become so browbeaten by political corectness that we will never recover from it. The operative word is Political.