How Bush Blew It
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Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination.
Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.
By Evan Thomas
Newsweek
Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top
aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public,
Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe
before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he
is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early
morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had
ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut
short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to
Washington. The president's chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy
chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his
spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the
question of the president's early return and the delicate task of
telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would
do the deed.
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