With AIDS Funding Bush Looks to His Legacy.

The Bush administration's global AIDS program, known widely as PEPFAR, "goes in the success column, and the administration is entering its legacy phase, where they want to try to get that column up," said J. Stephen Morrison , director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , a centrist Washington think-tank.

Morrison said most presidents have used international summits to promote their accomplishments, noting that Bush's announcement signaled that he considers the AIDS initiative one of his biggest successes. Morrison also believed the administration wants to bolster its foreign policy record by aiming to "convert fixable problems, like putting energy to get the relationship with Russia right."

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