Word: nagin
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...National Guard. Bush praised the "good work" on Thursday, then called the results "not acceptable" on Friday. By then, 55 nations had offered to pitch in--including Sri Lanka, whose disaster scars are still fresh. "Get off your asses, and let's do something," New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin raged in a radio interview that he ended in tears. But he of all people was in a position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base...
Only by Friday did some palpable help arrive, in the form of thousands of National Guard troops and lumbering convoys of supplies. Virtually alone, Lieut. General Russel Honore, commanding Joint Task Force Katrina, whom Mayor Nagin referred to as the John Wayne dude, seemed to be moving pieces into place. He was out in the streets with his troops, directing convoys and telling anxious Guardsmen to keep their weapons pointed down. He "came off the doggone chopper," Nagin said, "and he started cussing, and people started moving. And he's getting some stuff done. They ought to give that...
...patently out of touch, including the now-infamous remark that no one could have foreseen the levee breaking. His inability to see any moral distinction between those who steal water and those who loot TV sets seemed odd-and at odds with local politicians like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Then where was the call for sacrifice? While southern governors like Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue worried publicly about gas shortfalls as soon as this weekend and begged for conservation, Bush seemed to do so only as an afterthought...
Those Harvard undergraduates from New Orleans contacted by The Crimson this week were all out of town for research and vacations, or they had heeded Mayor C. Ray Nagin's plea to evacuate, sparing themselves the looting, filth, and chaos that would eventually overtake the devastated city in the wake of the storm. Floodwaters have breached city levees, and Nagin has estimated that 80 percent of the city is underwater...
...storm and subsequent flooding represent one of the most significant national disasters in American history. Hundreds of fatalities throughout the Gulf Coast have already been reported, and Nagin has speculated that the death toll may be in the thousands, a number that grows as rescue workers and police officers face a seething and hungry population...