Word: karens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...initially told to expect 300 evacuees, got 9,000; meanwhile, Virginia Governor Mark Warner arranged for 1,400 beds in Blackstone, Va., complete with Internet access, a school, day care, even a heated pool and gym. By Friday, not a single person had shown up to claim them. --By Karen Tumulty. With Brian Bennett / New Orleans and Nathan Thornburgh / Baton Rouge...
...Bush era begins to wane, some remaining aides lack the chops to set him right when he is off course. Several of his closest advisers--including Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales and Karen Hughes--have left the West Wing for Cabinet posts or jobs in other agencies. His chief of staff, Andrew Card, has never been mistaken for James Baker, the man who made a minor career out of setting Bush's father right. And Bush has filled a number of lesser spots around the government with political hacks and patronage candidates--most embarrassingly Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency...
...calls directed to the White House and not the FDA? "I'm told they take notes on the calls," says Paul Caprio, author of the e-mail, "and that information gets to the President as well as all the top White House staff members." --By Viveca Novak and Karen Tumulty...
...With reporting by Brian Bennett/New Orleans, Cathy Booth Thomas/Baton Rouge, Massimo Calabresi, Sally Donnelly, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/ Washington, Jeff Chu/New York and Jeanne DeQuine and Kathie Klarreich/Miami
...parallel is Bush's awkward first hours of handling a crisis. September 11, 2001 is remembered as Bush's finest hour but of course the day was anything but. He sat frozen in a Florida school after being informed of the attack, flew around the country, at first sending Karen Hughes to reassure a worried nation before he made a statement from an Air Force base while a macho Donald Rumsfeld helped carry stretchers out of a burning Pentagon. By the time Bush got back to the Oval Office that night to address the nation, his response had paled compared...