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George Bush’s Pledge to the People of New Orleans on the Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

The President gives us a lesson in drive-by personal diplomacy.

Calvin Trillin

September 7, 2006

The Feds, he said, will not abandon you– Just what he said last year, when they were prone. And he’ll return next year to say the same. Until that time, of course, they’re on their own.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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