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...Actually, my flash of optimism came after reading Rising Tide [John Barry's book about the Mississippi flood of 1927]. Have you read it? I had a sense that if you didn't have New Orleans, you'd have to create one. Because of the requirements of commerce, where it's at on the river and so forth. So it's not a question of whether New Orleans comes back, it's how New Orleans comes back...
...said many times that your top three priorities were ?housing, housing and housing.? Today we've got about 40,000 evacuees still living in hotel rooms. In Mississippi, hundreds of people are living in tents. Were you successful...
...trailers a day being deployed in Louisiana. We're getting close to our goal in Mississippi. The real problem is that you have so much housing that's been removed. Not everybody can fit back into New Orleans...
...Hotel Lorraine in Memphis is owned and patronized exclusively by Negroes," stated the propaganda sheet, but King had chosen instead "the plush Holiday Inn Motel, white owned, operated and almost exclusively white patronized." By April 2, Hoover formally requested permission to reinstall wiretaps at SCLC. Two days later, the Mississippi FBI office sent headquarters a two-pronged counterintelligence program, or COINTELPRO, proposal, first, to breed confusion and resentment on King's poverty tours by spreading false information about whether he or surrogates would appear at scheduled rallies, and second, to undermine his image by distributing leaflets skewering King...
...case continues to be made that this congressionally chartered organization is dysfunctional." BENNIE THOMPSON, Democratic Representative from Mississippi, as Congress began an inquiry last week into how the Red Cross has mismanaged relief efforts and funds for Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and other disasters...