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Article: President comforts New Orleans; On 1-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Bush urges city's residents to return and help rebuild
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2006
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - President Bush comforted this city that lost so
much in Hurricane Katrina and has regained so little in the year
since. Amid the raw sorrow of Tuesday's anniversary, the president
selected a few beacons of hope to give a lift to struggling Gulf
communities.
He scarfed hot cakes with happy patrons at Betsy's Pancake House,
a reopened hangout in a downtrodden, flood-stained New Orleans
neighborhood. He chose as a speech backdrop a new charter school
viewed as a sign of the city's commitment to a better post-Katrina
educational system.
He called on rhythm and blues legend and local favorite son Fats