Joe Whitehead, Former VP Corporate Affairs

Qualified pharmacist. Joined the company as a Sales Representative in Ohio, moved to head office in Tuckahoe, New York [? part of TOPS programme] and the returned to Ohio as District Manager. Later became Director of Government Relations. Was with BW for 36 years.

Topics discussed include:

* brief biography

* impressions of company prior to joining

* relations with State and Federal Government

* the issue of Aids/AZT/Retrovir and pricing, including Waxman Congressional Inquiry, reaction of protestors entering BW offices and general information on attitudes to HIV/Aids in 1980s

* Sudafed "poisoning" incident (copy cat of Johnson and Johnson Tylenol poisoning, contents of Sudafed capsules were exchanged for cyanide by husband attempting to murder wife)

* patents, Waxman-Hatch law, generic drugs

* Wellbutrin

18 May 2001

2 audio tapes and transcript Tape 28 side A

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